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title: "Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-updates-its-gemini-app-to-take-on-chatgpt-and-claude-qkch7bsil
source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-updates-its-gemini-app-to-take-on-chatgpt-and-claude
type: article
source: "TechCrunch"
published: 2026-05-19T17:49:11.079Z
updated: 2026-05-19T17:49:30.862Z
tags: ["google", "ai-agents", "google-gemini", "video-generation", "multimodal"]
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# Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

**[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Google announced at I/O 2026 a major overhaul of its Gemini app, positioning it as an all-purpose AI hub to compete with ChatGPT and Claude. Key updates include a 'Daily Brief' personalized morning digest that pulls from inbox, calendar, and tasks; a redesigned interface with a new 'Neural Expressive' design language featuring fluid animations and haptic feedback; and access to Gemini Omni, a new AI video model that combines Gemini with generative media models for multimodal content creation. The app already claims over 900 million monthly users across 230+ countries. Daily Brief and Gemini Omni are rolling out to Google AI subscribers in the US.

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