Google Gemini

Gemini is Google's AI assistant. It runs in a browser at gemini.google.com and in mobile apps, signed in with an ordinary Google account. You ask in plain language and it answers — drafting and editing text, explaining a topic, working through a problem, and pulling in current information from Google Search when a question needs it.

It is strongest on the everyday language and information work most people actually need: writing and rewriting, summarising long material, turning notes into structure, and answering questions with up-to-date, web-grounded results. It is multimodal — you can bring in images and, in the app, use voice — and on some plans it connects to Google Workspace apps such as Docs and Gmail.

It suits people already living in Google's ecosystem, and anyone who wants a capable assistant that is free to start and connected to live search rather than frozen at a training cut-off.

To begin, sign in at gemini.google.com with a Google account and type a request — no credit card is needed for the free tier. A real task makes a better first test than a toy one.

Two honest limits. The free tier has usage limits and tends to use Google's faster, lighter models; the most capable models and higher limits sit behind paid Google AI plans. And like every assistant, Gemini can be fluent and wrong at once, so anything load-bearing needs checking against a real source. Feature availability and plan names also vary by country and by whether the account is personal or managed by an organisation.