The day before, Google published COSMO in the Play Store - “an experimental assistant application with artificial intelligence for Android-devices." The app was subsequently removed from public access. This was reported by the resource .
Judging by the app's name (com.google.research.air.cosmo), it was developed by Google Research. The project's main goal is to deploy AI capabilities locally on mobile devices. The app's size is 1,13 GB, which can be attributed to the included Gemini Nano AI model. Upon launch, it requests a few system permissions, after which a simple chat interface opens.
The AI assistant has a wide range of skills, including AI agent functions. It manages on-device checklists; creates new text documents or prepares summaries of existing ones; creates calendar entries; automates browser tasks; sets timers; conducts in-depth research; performs quick photo searches; searches Google; explains terms; gives advice and suggests ideas; helps "understand" people and events in context; helps "recall" events; and creates conversation summaries when the context changes.
In COSMO's settings, you can also select the AI assistant's operating mode: local, with the model running on the device; cloud, with the AI model running on external resources; and hybrid, with the ability to combine both types of models. The company will likely share more details about this project at the Google I/O 2026 conference, which opens on May 19.
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Source: 3dnews.ru
