Gemini, Google’s generative AI assistant and rival to ChatGPT, has become integral to high-end Android phones over the past year, gradually superseding the more basic Google Assistant. Now Google has outlined plans to sunset its original smart assistant entirely,

Google dropped a bit of a bombshell on Friday afternoon: Gemini will be replacing Google Assistant on most Android phones this year. Even bigger, the classic Google Assistant "will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices" by the end of the year, and you won't be able to download a new copy of the app after that point.

Google's Gemini assistant will officially replace the company's classic Google Assistant on most phones later this year. Google announced the change in a blog post Friday, and revealed that the change will also encompass devices like tablets, headphones and watches that use the Google Assistant.