In the AI chatbot world, ubiquity is everything. Companies have raced to build desktop and mobile apps for their bots, in order to both give them new capabilities but also to make sure they’re right in front of your face as often as possible.

Alphabet's Google on Thursday released a smartphone app for its artificial intelligence chatbot on Apple's App Store that introduced the latest generation of its voice assistant to the popular mobile operating system.

Google's Gemini AI chatbot is now available for iPhone, complete with Gemini Live capabilities. The app's release follows recent attempts from Google to greater integrate Gemini with the rest of its product stack.