Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

I respect Gemini using the royal “we” here.

By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple’s business. So last week’s news that it was enabling something called Personal Intelligence felt like a victory lap. Personal Intelligence allows Gemini to reference past conversations and access your data in other Google services, including Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and search history, without you specifically prompting it to look in those sources. It’s entirely opt-in, and you choose which apps Gemini can access and which it can’t. It’s in beta and only available to people with AI Pro and Ultra subscrip …

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