Google has upgraded its Gemini app with a Google Home extension. It allows Android users to communicate with Gemini more naturally while making it easier to customise and control your smart home devices. This Gemini upgrade is available in Google Home Public Preview but it doesn’t support all smart devices yet.

The extension in Gemini doesn’t support all smart devices, however. As Google notes, it will link you to the Google Home app for controls related to security devices, including cameras, locks, gates, and doors. It also can’t execute routines.

Google Gemini Extensions are starting to arrive for Home, Messages, Phone, and even WhatsApp. Home’s Gemini Extension supports natural-language control of your devices. You’ll need to register for Home’s Public Preview to get early access.

Google is bringing its Gemini AI assistant into more of its software suite, announcing several new features for Google Maps. Users looking for ideas about places to go in Maps can now ask conversational questions about the type of location they want and receive answers from Gemini.

Gmail on the Web in Google Workspace is getting Gemini AI. A new “Help Me Write” feature, and older "Refine My Draft" is available.

Google is starting to roll out a slew of new Gemini extensions, including the Google Home app. Users enrolled in the Public Preview for Google Home should start seeing the integration in the Gemini app for Android this week,

Smart homes have gotten more intelligent over the years, but we still haven't quite reached the same level as old sci-fi movies where people could talk directly to a house AI. Fortunately, if Google plays its cards right,