Made by Google Podcast The AI Smart Home is Finally Here: Gemini Powers Up Google Home | Made by Google Podcast S8E6
Oct 8, 2025
Anish Kattukaran, Senior Director of Product Management for Google's home team, joins to unveil the Gemini era. He discusses transformative updates like upgraded smart devices and a sleek new Google Home app that unifies Nest products. Anish highlights Gemini's ability to facilitate natural, context-aware conversations and introduces innovations like the Home Brief summary feature and advanced camera capabilities. Plus, he shares exciting news about the Google Home Premium subscription, offering enhanced features for a smarter home experience.
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Cameras Shift From Alerts To Understanding
- Cameras move from alerts to semantic scene understanding, labeling events meaningfully (e.g., delivery person dropped a package).
- This enables Ask Home queries and needle-in-a-haystack searches across camera history.
Create Automations By Asking
- Ask Home can create automations from plain language prompts like "make me feel safer."
- Use natural requests to generate automations without needing Boolean logic or manual programming.
Raccoons Revealed By Ask Home
- Anish tested Ask Home with his parents and discovered raccoons nesting under their deck at night.
- The cameras revealed the problem location and helped them resolve it.