{"id":785708,"date":"2026-09-28T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785708\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:08:11","slug":"google-is-killing-off-geminis-gems-in-favor-of-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785708\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta\u2019s Muse<\/a> and Instinct<\/a> take off, Google announced it\u2019s shutting down the Gemini feature known as \u201cGems<\/a>,\u201d which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for specific tasks. However, the work users invested in creating the Gems won\u2019t be destroyed. Gems will be automatically migrated to \u201cskills\u201d that can be used across different AI tasks.<\/p>\n

Details about the change are being shared in the Gemini app, where a message warns users that Gems will become skills starting on November 17, 2026. The company said it will migrate the Gems to the new format, so users won\u2019t have to do anything to make the transition. The Gems themselves will remain usable until then.<\/p>\n

Launched<\/a> in 2024, Gems were meant to help users teach their AI to perform certain tasks<\/a> without having to repeat the instructions. For instance, some of Google\u2019s pre-made Gems had included a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a coding partner, and an editor. Users could also make Gems for their own needs, like a running coach, nutritionist, or vacation planner. These custom assistants could also be shared with others<\/a>, which Google had hoped would help make its Gemini AI app more popular. <\/p>\n

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The news of Gems\u2019 shutdown is another example of why Google shouldn\u2019t be so quick to give every new AI feature its own brand name, icon, and prominent placement in its app\u2019s navigation \u2014 especially if it\u2019s going to shuffle things around over time, merging one feature into another. (To be clear, this has been a failing point of Google\u2019s strategy long before the AI era. At one point, for instance, the company was operating multiple different messaging and communication apps at the same time.)<\/p>\n

Yet, even as skills, the former Gems still aren\u2019t as consumer-friendly as just typing in text to a chatbot like Meta\u2019s Muse. Instead, Google notes you\u2019ll have to enter a forward slash \u201c\/\u201d in a task thread to select the skill you want to use \u2014 a user interface that engineers, not regular folks, tend to prefer.<\/p>\n

Gems\u2019 wind-down was first reported over the weekend by 9to5Google<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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