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 generative AI assistant has been made available via a dedicated app on the iPhone for the first time. Although Gemini can already be accessed on iPhones via the web, Google said the app will offer a “more streamlined Gemini experience”,

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.