Google Assistant is about to be everywhere

Users will soon see Google’s AI Assistant in a number of new devices — including the Apple iPhone — the company announced at its I/O conference in Mountain View, California on Wednesday. Assistant debuted in 2016 and was originally integrated into the company’s Pixel phone and Home smart hub. It’s since spread to more than 100 million individual devices, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the crowd at this year’s conference, including smart TVs, automobiles and wearables. And it’s about to be in a lot more.

While Assistant already works with more than 70 smart home device makers, the company announced that it will soon release an Assistant SDK so that developers hardware manufacturers can integrate the service into even more devices — anything from speakers to blenders, smart locks to web cameras. “The new Google Assistant SDK easily allows a manufacturer to build the Google Assistant into any hardware,” Google’s Scott Huffman told the crowd.

Assistant will also boast a number of new features when it arrives on those devices. Google also announced on Wednesday that Assistant will speak four additional languages (French, German, Portuguese and Japanese) come summer and allow users to shop on third party websites without having to install separate apps or even open a new browser window.

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