Google will replace Google Assistant on Android phones with Gemini later this year, the company announced on Friday.

It's time for a 'platform shift,' Google says. But only if you have a device that can run Gemini with more than 2GB of RAM and Android 10 or later.

It's been clear for some time that Gemini is the future of AI assistants as far as Google is concerned, and now it's official: Google Assistant is going to be disappearing from smartphones before the end of the year.