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Let’s say goodbye to Google Assistant a decade later. Google has begun to delete its code to leave only one option: Gemini

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It’s not official but as if it were: the end of Google Assistant or the classic Google Assistant, is scheduled. An analysis of the latest version of the Google app for Android carried out by Android Authority has revealed his almost definitive goodbye. The Mountain View company is eliminating the code that, for the moment, allows us to choose between Gemini and the old assistant. It is the chronicle of a death foretold that ends an era within the company. Where before we saw the Assistant icon and dialog window, we now have the Gemini one. Image by Iván Linares for Xataka Android failed promise. Launched in May 2016, the Google Assistant was going to be a revolution. On paper, it promised full voice control of your cell phone, car and home. In practice, like many users have experiencedits use ended up being “despairing” although the “Okay, Google” It became popular in smartphones and speakers. Your inability to understand the context or natural language and the rise of AI models, has finished burying it. The future belongs to Gemini. With the rise of generative AI, Google has bet everything on Gemini, but it has had a rather confusing rollout. For months, the American company maintained a curious mess with several duplicate names, apps and services… Bard, Assistant with Bard, Project Astra… In practice, two assistants live on the same mobile phone. In February 2024, its “transmutation” began: that was when Google launched the dedicated Gemini app (Bard was left behind) on Android, which when installed was offered as a replacement for Assistant. As we tested in its day, the new AI took over of the invocation with the famous “Hey Google” command. A more mature replacement. The problem with the Gemini assistant is that, at first, it was quite green. It was a powerful chatbot, but a not so useful assistant: it could not execute the basic tasks that the previous one could do, such as routines or orders for home automation. However, Google has spent the last year making Gemini absorb the features of its predecessor. The turning point came at the end of last year, when Gemini Live – the conversational voice mode – finally landed in Spain and in Spanish. Already approaching 2025, Gemini learned a basic function that it was missing: making calls and sending messages without having to unlock the mobile. The last big feature inherited from Assistant, the «Scheduled actions»arrived in June of this year. Google’s plan. At the same time that Gemini was learning the old Assistant tricks, Google has been dismantling the latter, removing useful functions. The objective is more than clear: Gemini is the future and will be everywhere. Now you can act like the “all-seeing” assistant thanks to Project Astra (integrated in Live mode), it is coming to Google Home speakers and its landing on Android Auto is imminent. The last step remains. And that is eliminating the escape route: Google has already consolidated the transition. Gemini is the default assistant on new mobile phones and can be installed on old ones without major impediments. The analysis of the APK of the specialized Android media only confirms that the last step is very simple: eliminate the option to go back. The king is dead, long live the king. Cover image | Composition with Google images and generated with Nano Banana by Pepu Ricca In Xataka | How to create Gemini Gems to have your personalized version of artificial intelligence

Google and Epic Games propose a historic agreement that is an earthquake for the Play Store

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The long and costly legal war between Epic Games and Googlewhich began in 2020, is about to end. Both companies have jointly submitted an agreement proposal and a modified court order which, if approved, not only resolves all its disputes, but also redraws the rules of the Android app store for the coming years. Chronology. To understand why Google has agreed, you have to rewind. After a long trial, a jury ruled in favor of Epic in 2023, declaring that Google’s Play Store operated as an illegal monopoly. Based on that verdict, Judge Donato issued a harsh court order a year later. This forced Google to open its ecosystem and included allowing third-party stores within the Play Store itself. In addition, it prohibited Google from tying its billing system to the store, and allowing developers to link to external payments. Braking attempt. Google immediately appealed, warning that the changes would harm the “security and privacy” of users. On October 18, 2024, the judge granted the Mountain View giant a temporary suspension while the appeal was being resolved. It was just a momentary respite. Surrender. After losing appeals, the US Supreme Court rejected Google’s latest request for a suspension. This reactivated the original court ordergiving the company an imminent deadline that ended on October 22. It had to start dismantling its control over the Android software store. Image by Official GDC on Flickr New agreement. Faced with the obligation to comply with a sentence that it hated, Google has negotiated a lesser evil. This new agreement, which was presented yesterday, replaces the original order with agreed rules that will be in force until June 30, 2032. Tim Sweeney himself, CEO of Epic, rated it X as an “impressive” and “comprehensive solution.” These were the words of Sameer Samat, the president of Android, who also reacted to the news: Together with Epic Games, we have proposed changes for Android and Google Play that focus on expanding developer choice and flexibility, reducing fees, and encouraging greater competition, all while ensuring user safety. If approved, this would resolve our disputes. We hope to continue discussing the issue with the judge on Thursday. The agreement details a new maximum commission structure. Google will not be able to charge more than 20% for in-game purchases that offer advantages (such as loot boxes or improvements). For everything else, the maximum commission will be 9%. On the other hand, the developers they win the right to display their own payment systems with Play Billing. Additionally, they will be able to show different (i.e. cheaper) prices if the user chooses the alternative payment. However, the Big Tech will continue to charge your “service fee”– Even if a developer uses its payment platform, Google reserves the right to charge the service fee (the 20% or 9% mentioned). According to media such as The Vergea Google spokesperson clarified that the developer saves the billing fee (cost of processing the payment), but not the service fee. Global impact. Although the court order is limited to the US, this change to the Android operating system will have a global impact. This opens the door for third-party stores—such as the one that Epic announced with Telefónica— can be installed without any friction. Without forgetting that this pact also prohibits Google (for three years) from making payments to manufacturers or operators to pre-install competing stores or to not place them in specific places on the device. What’s coming now. The agreement is not final: it must be approved by the judge. Both parties have a hearing scheduled for this Thursday, November 6, to discuss the proposal. We’ll see how it ends, but it seems that the final agreement will not be very different from this one. Cover image | Composition with images of Sergey Galyonkin for Flickr and Xataka Android In Xataka | Google has put AI summaries where there used to be links to news. And the media is bleeding

What is this Google Play Store error and install the app anyway

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Let’s explain to you what it is and how to avoid the message Your device is not compatible with this versionwhich may appear in the Android application store. It may appear on some mobile phones very occasionally when you want to install an application that interests you. We are going to start the article by explaining what exactly this message is, so you can know what the error is due to. And then, we will tell you how to avoid this problem for be able to install the application as well. Why does this message appear? The applications on your mobile phone are like the programs on a computer, when a developer creates them, they establish a series of minimum requirements and compatibility. They do this to make sure that the application works as it should, and that the user experience is not good. The message that your device is not compatible with a version appears because the app is not optimized for your device or its featuressuch as your Android version or your hardware, such as RAM or other requirements. Sometimes it can also even be due to the type of device, when you want to install an app on your mobile that is only for Android TV or vice versa. Come on, your mobile phone does not meet what is necessary for the application to work correctly, and therefore you can’t install the app for not being suitable. As we have told you, sometimes it can be due to the requirements or the type of device, but it can also happen with apps that worked until now if your phone is old and the app has received an update that changes its minimum requirements. How to install unsupported applications When this message appears, there is no way to install the app from the official Android app store. However, you have an alternative using the files Android APK. These are executable files, just like Windows .exe files, and they help you install applications manually. Install an APK on Android it is relatively easy. First you have to download the application file from a repository trusted, which is what the pages that host these executables are called. One that I personally recommend is APKMirror. Once you have downloaded the file to your mobile, making sure it is the one aimed at the architecture of your processor, simply enter it to launch it. They will ask you for permissions to do it and that’s it. Here, you just have to keep in mind that when you install the APK of an unsupported app it may not work well on your mobile or it may not work at all, since in the end, it still does not meet the developer’s requirements. Of course, you can always try downloading an older version. In Xataka Basics | Gemini on your old Android: what you need and how to get the most out of it

OpenAI teamed up with NVIDIA and made circular financing fashionable. Anthropic has returned the ball with a surprise girlfriend: Google

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Let’s see if we were going to believe that OpenAI was going to be the only one to look for powerful allies. Nothing of that: Anthropic just did the same and has announced an eye-catching agreement with Google. The AI ​​startup will have access to up to one million Google TPUs in a pact that is worth “tens of billions of dollars.” Less noise, but a lot of nuts. The figures of the agreement are modest if we compare them with those that OpenAI has managed in its circular financing agreements with NVIDIA, amd either Broadcombut here Anthropic seems to take a very different position. Compared to colossal projects like Stargate, Anthropic’s idea is focused on execution. Without making much noise, the company led by Dario Amodei has been gradually conquering the business sector. More than 1 GW of computing capacity. On CNBC indicate that this investment will allow the creation of a data center with a computing capacity greater than 1 GW and have it ready in 2026. It is estimated that a center of these characteristics would cost about 50,000 million dollars, of which about 35,000 million would be dedicated to AI chips. It may not be comparable to Stargate and the idea of ​​investing $500 billion in data centers, but the alliance between Anthropic and Google is significant. More than circular financing. The partnership certainly features elements of circular financing, but it is more of a symbiotic relationship with that cross-investment component. The dynamic is simple and is now completed with that commercial return. The agreement requires Anthropic to buy or rent infrastructure services from Google Cloud. Virtuous circle. With its original investment in Anthropic, Google helped that company grow, which in turn allows Anthropic not only the ability to grow, but the need for enormous computing power… provided by Google. In essence, some of the money Google invests in Anthropic returns to Google Cloud as revenue. The vicious (or virtuous, as they say in the US) circle is complete. Anthropic diversifies. Anthropic’s AI models are trained and used using infrastructure from various manufacturers. Thus, they use both Google TPUs and Amazon Trainium processors and NVIDIA GPUs: each platform is assigned to a specialized workload. In the case of Google’s TPUs, according to Anthropic the focus is “its strong price/performance ratio and its efficiency.” Promising successes, but… Anthropic’s growth is evident, and its annualized revenue rate (ARR) is now estimated to reach $7 billion. Claude Code, its developer assistant, managed to generate 500 million dollars after just two months on the market. But as always, that revenue can’t hide the fact that Anthropic, like other AI startups, you continue to spend much more money than you earn. Amazon is your other great ally. In fact, the company led by Andy Jassy has invested around $8 billion, when official data indicates that Google has invested $3 billion. AWS is still considered the largest infrastructure provider for Anthropic, and its supercomputer Project Rainierbased on the Trainium 2, allows you to have a large computing capacity for every dollar invested, they point out on Amazon. The company’s influence is not only financial: it is structural. Image | Wikimedia | Fortune Brainstorm Tech In Xataka | You thought you had an amazing connection on Tinder, but you were actually chatting with ChatGPT

A Google Pixel at a knockdown price, another from Xiaomi much cheaper, offers on portable consoles and more, Bargain Hunting

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We return once again with a new Bargain Hunting in which we can take advantage of to get some cheaper devices. Stores have launched many discounts, so in this article we are going to review what the best deals of the week on mobile phones, computers, televisions and more. Google Pixel 9 Pro by 679.15 eurosa top quality-price mobile phone thanks to its discount with coupon. Lenovo Legion Go by 721 eurosa portable console that is at the store’s all-time low price. Poco F7 Pro by 429.99 eurosa high-end Xiaomi mobile that has dropped in price again. HP Omen 16 by 1,199 eurosa gaming laptop with a very good configuration. Samsung TQ65Q7F5AUXXC by 599 eurosa TV from the brand that comes with a 65-inch QLED screen. Google Pixel 9 Pro MediaMarkt right now has a wide range of discounts on Google devices thanks to the coupon 15MMGOOGLEwhich works on every product. But if what we are looking for is a good mobile, be very careful with the Google Pixel 9 Pro that has fallen to the 679.15 euros. This is an excellent and compact phone, which incorporates a very good screen and a very good set of cameras. Of course, in addition to the Google Pixel 9 Pro, we can also find many other Google devices discounted with the coupon. And not only mobile phones, but also smart watches or headphones. Google Pixel 9 Pro (128GB) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Lenovo Legion Go More and more we see portable consoles or consolidated laptops or PCs. This type of device has come on strong with quite powerful models, and the Lenovo Legion Go which was launched last year can now be bought cheaper. Amazon has it for 721 eurosits historical minimum price. He Lenovo Legion Go This offer includes an 8.8-inch screen, in addition to its respective AMD processor Ryzen Z1 Extreme along with 1TB of internal storage. Also comes with Windows 11 Home and with very comfortable controls. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Poco F7 Pro If you are not convinced by the price of the Google Pixel 9 Pro, Xiaomi offers an alternative in its mid-range with the new offer of the Poco F7 Pro. In the store it costs 429.99 eurosbut if we are new users we can receive a 20 euro coupon. This is a good mobile phone that incorporates a screen with 2K+ resolutionits processor is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and its battery 6,000 mAh supports 90W fast charging.- The price could vary. We earn commission from these links HP Omen 16 If what you are looking for is a good gaming laptop with a reasonable price, pay attention to the HP Omen 16 that has fallen on Amazon up to 1,199 euros. This laptop features a 16-inch screen with 2K resolution and refresh rate of up to 240 Hz, its processor is the Intel Core 7-240H, it comes with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD and its graphics is a Nvidia RTX 5060. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Samsung TQ65Q7F5AUXXC Finally, in recent months we have also seen quite a few discounts on televisions, and MediaMarkt right now has the Samsung TQ65Q7F5AUXXC by 599 euros. It is not their best price and it has been at a similar price for a few weeks, but for this price we can have a TV with 65 inch QLED screen. Additionally, it includes both Alexa as Google Assistant and comes with Filmmaker mode. Samsung TQ65Q7F5AUXXC (QLED, 65 inches) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Google, Lenovo, Xiaomi, HP, Samsung In Xataka | The best mobile phones (2025), we have tested them and here are their analyzes In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

The latest Google Pixel can be yours for just over 700 euros with this promotion that MediaMarkt has

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If you have been thinking about buying a Google Pixel mobile for some time and you wanted it at the best price, that time has come. Now, in MediaMarktthey have a unique code (15MMGOOGLE) available until October 26 at 9 a.m. and that will allow you to take a company phone with a Extra 15% discount. One of the models that is worth it, during this MediaMarkt campaign, is the Google Pixel 10the firm’s latest release. It was already reduced to 849 euros in this store, but if you also apply the code, it remains available for 721.65 euros. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links The latest Pixel launched by Google at an unbeatable price The base model of the new generation of the brand is this Google Pixel 10ideal for those looking for a terminal of not very large dimensions. Its screen is 6.3 inches and offers a resolution of 2,424 x 1,080 pixels. In addition, it stands out for reaching 3,000 nits of peak brightness. His photographic system is one of his great photos and brings a very important novelty: a 10.8 MP telephoto camerain addition to a 48 MP main sensor and a 13 MP wide angle. Its battery supports fast charging at 30 W via cable and 15 W wirelessly. Furthermore, it is a mobile with IP68 certificationso it is resistant to dust and water. The power it has is due to the processor Google Tensor G5which in this model on offer is accompanied by 12 GB RAM and a 256 GB internal storage. In addition, this terminal works with pure Android and operating system updates are guaranteed for seven years. Other Pixel phones that may interest you with this MediaMarkt promotion This is not the only Google terminal that you can get at a good price thanks to this discount code that MediaMarkt has. If you are thinking of buying a Pixel mobile (or even a smartwatch), these are some of the other models that might interest you. Google Pixel 9 by 509.15 euros: 6.3 inches and with Google Tensor G4. Google Pixel 9 Pro by 679.15 euros– With 6.3-inch LTPO OLED display and AI. Google Pixel 9 Pro XL by 891.65 euros: with 6.8-inch screen and 512 GB. Google Pixel 10 Pro by 891.65 euros: 6.3 inches and with Android 16. Google Pixel 10 Pro XL by 1019.15 euros: with 6.8-inch screen and 256 GB. Google Pixel Watch 3 by 220.15 euros: with 1.61-inch AMOLED screen and WearOS. You may also be interested in these accessories for this Google Pixel OWKEY Magnetic Case for Google Pixel 10 and tempered glass The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Pixel Buds 2a – Wireless Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Webedia and Google In Xataka | Google Pixel 10 Vs Google Pixel 9. Which mobile phone to choose according to your tastes and needs In Xataka | The best quality-price mobiles. Their analyzes and videos are here

Google has solved problems in two hours that would take three years on a supercomputer. It’s the quantum advantage we needed

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Google has taken a notable step into the field of quantum computing with a new algorithm called Quantom Echoes. This algorithm has been able to demonstrate for the first time a “practical and verifiable quantum advantage” that makes its quantum computer make fools of today’s large supercomputers. 13,000 times faster than a supercomputer. The new algorithm, called Quantum Echoes (“Quantum Echoes”), has made it possible to demonstrate that a quantum computer – based on Google’s Willow quantum chip— successfully executes a verifiable algorithm that exceeds the capacity of today’s large supercomputers. Thus, that computer managed to execute that algorithm 13,000 times faster than the best current classical supercomputer when executing similar code. “Quantum verifiability”. Google’s quantum supercomputer solved the problem in just over two hours, when in the second supercomputer most powerful in the world, Frontier, would have taken 3.2 years. But it also did it in a verifiable way: the result can be repeated in the quantum computer itself or in any other of similar caliber. Quantum echoes. The algorithm resembles an advanced echo: you send a signal to the quantum system, perturb a qubit, and then precisely reverse the evolution of the signal to “listen” to the resulting echo. This echo is special because it is amplified by constructive interference, a quantum phenomenon where waves add up to become stronger, which allows this effect to be precisely measured. The algorithm allows modeling the structure of systems in nature, from molecules to black holes. An achievement with a lot of Nobel Prize behind it. The milestone is based on decades of research in this area, including that carried out by the recent Nobel Prize winner, Michel H. Devoretwho is part of the Google team. Together with his colleagues John M. Martinis and John Clark he laid the foundations for this advance at the University of California at Berkeley in the mid-1980s. “Quantum verifiability”. Google’s quantum supercomputer solved the problem in just over two hours, when in the second supercomputer most powerful in the world, Frontier, would have taken 3.2 years. But it also did it in a verifiable way: the result can be repeated in the quantum computer itself or in any other of similar caliber. Quantum echoes. The algorithm resembles an advanced echo: you send a signal to the quantum system, perturb a qubit, and then precisely reverse the evolution of the signal to “listen” to the resulting echo. This echo is special because it is amplified by constructive interference, a quantum phenomenon where waves add up to become stronger, which allows this effect to be precisely measured. The algorithm allows modeling the structure of systems in nature, from molecules to black holes. An achievement with a lot of Nobel Prize behind it. The milestone is based on decades of research in this area, including that carried out by the recent Nobel Prize winner, Michel H. Devoretwho is part of the Google team. Together with his colleagues John M. Martinis and John Clark he laid the foundations for this advance at the University of California at Berkeley in the mid-1980s. Hello qubit. His discovery: the properties of quantum mechanics could also be observed in electrical circuits large enough to be seen with the naked eye. That gave rise to the creation of superconducting qubitswhich are the basic blocks with which Google has created (like other companies) its quantum computers. Devoret joined Google in 2023, thus strengthening the company’s trajectory in its search for the now famous “quantum supremacy”. Promising practical applications. The advance is directed directly to the solution of important problems in fields such as medicine or materials science. Quantum computing remains an experimental technology and faces a key challenge with error correction, but Quantum Echoes demonstrates that “quantum software” is advancing at a pace parallel to hardware. Google applied Quantum Echoes to a proof of concept experiment for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This technique acts as a “molecular microscope”, a powerful tool that will help design drugs or, for example, establish the molecular structure of new polymers. a marathon. This new milestone demonstrates the progress that this technology has made in recent years, but Google is not alone here. Microsoft or IBM have also made notable advances in recent years, and of course there are numerous startups both in the US like in china who work in this area. In Xataka | Decoherence is the biggest problem with quantum computers. This superconductor wants to end it

Google has a lot to worry about

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OpenAI does not stop launching new products. After the virality of the Sora 2 videosa few hours ago they announced Atlas, the new browser with integrated ChatGPT that wants to change the way we navigate and represents a great threat to Google’s monopoly. I have been testing Atlas with the free version from ChatGPT and these are my impressions. Goodbye Google, hello ChatGPT The AI ​​is changing the way we browse the internet and Atlas is the most forceful step in this direction. As soon as you open the browser there is no trace of Google or a search engine, ChatGPT only. We can Google it, but it’s a bit hidden. If, for example, we type “best movies”, we will see that a lot of suggestions appear to complete our search and At the bottom the option to search with Google. We can also type or paste a URL and the specific website will open, but the search takes center stage entirely from ChatGPT. OpenAI doesn’t want you to search like you did until now, you want each tab to be a prompt to open the corresponding conversation with ChatGPT. Let’s see what he’s capable of. Ask ChatGPT One of the star functions is that, while we browse other pages, ChatGPT is always available from the button in the upper right corner. Pressing it opens a sidebar where we can consult details of the page we are visiting, such as giving us a summary or helping us better understand a concept. Helping me know if the router will be compatible with the ones I already have. This button is especially useful, for example, if we are making purchases. We can ask for specific details of a product and ChatGPT will give us the answer, understanding the context. For example, I want to buy an additional router to add to my mesh system, but I am not sure if this model will be compatible. No problem, I ask ChatGPT without even having to leave the page. Sambas run small and ChatGPT knows it. We can also ask other types of questions, such as whether a pair of shoes fits small and much more. On the website I was consulting there were no shoes in the size that ChatGPT was recommending, so I asked him to find that size for me in other stores. He did, although the first time he suggested different models of Adidas Samba that were not that color. I had to specify that I wanted the “Black Green Leopard” model. He found them cheaper for me. It is a good support when organizing a trip. Another use case is preparing a trip. Although agent mode can help us book hotels and search for flights, it is only available in the Plus version. With the free version we can also take advantage of ChatGPT’s capabilities when searching for trips. In my case, I have been looking at accommodation in Andorra for the December long weekend, but in view of the prices and low availability, I asked him to find other destinations that were close to Valencia by car. You can also ask them things like what places to visit or restaurants near the accommodation. Memory and tab management The ‘Ask ChatGPT’ button is fine, but beyond the fact that we have it more at hand, it is not far from what ChatGPT already does by itself. The really interesting thing is that the browser has memory, so we can go back to previous tabs just using natural text. No more browsing through history looking for that website we visited and whose name we don’t remember. Very useful for revisiting pages. In the case of the sneakers, I didn’t even need to remember what the specific model was called, just by telling him that they were leopard he understood it. If you don’t give it enough information, it will ask you for more references such as the date you saw it or if you remember any images. I have tested it with more complicated examples, being less specific, and there have been a couple in which it has not been able to locate the page I asked for, but in general it works very well. I can finally close tabs without worrying about having to dig around to find them. Perhaps the most useful use I have found for this memory is that we can ask it to open the tabs that we visited when we were doing research on a specific topic. I had to tell him twice, but I managed to get him to open all the websites he was visiting to prepare an article. It can also be useful if, for example, you were looking for computers a couple of weeks ago and you want to review all the models you consulted again. Another practical use if you have digital Diogenes like me, is to ask it to “clean” the tabs you have open. I usually open a lot of tabs while I work and leave them there “just in case.” In the end I end up having dozens of tabs open, many of them unrelated to what I’m doing at that moment. Writing these lines, I have asked him to close all the tabs that were not being useful to me at the moment. The result is that I have gone from almost twenty eyelashes to only six. The RAM memory of my computer has thanked it. Of course, I have had some difficulties with this function and on several occasions it has gotten stuck or told me that it had closed the tabs when in reality they were still open. Yeah AI hallucinatesit is evident that browsers with AI are going to do it too. And my privacy? Default, ChatGPT sees everything we do in the browser. It’s great to summarize a page or clarify a concept, but perhaps we don’t want you to see sensitive content such as our password manager or our … Read more

ChatGPT Atlas is here. It’s the biggest nightmare in the history of Google

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OpenAI has launched Atlas, your first browserand Alphabet has seen $150 billion in market capitalization evaporate in a matter of hours. Shares fell 4.8% shortly after the announcement, recovering slightly to close down 2.4%. The market reaction was no coincidence: Atlas is not (just) Chrome with a chatbot stuck on top, it is a browser designed from scratch around ChatGPT. Why is it important. For two decades, Google has controlled how we access the Internet through a lethal combination: Chrome as a gateway and Google Search as a mandatory destination. Atlas breaks that logic. If your browser has an AI assistant with memory that remembers your preferences, performs complex tasks for you, and directly answers your questions, the traditional search bar no longer makes sense. It is therefore not an incremental improvement, but rather a paradigm shift in the way we navigate. In detail. Atlas eliminates the address bar as the nerve center of the browser and replaces it with ChatGPT. Users can open a side panel in any window to summarize content, compare products, or analyze data without switching tabs. But the star functionality is the “agent mode“, currently reserved for paying subscribers: ChatGPT literally takes control of the mouse and keyboard, surf the web on your behalf, fill out forms, research travel options, add ingredients to the shopping cart. In yesterday’s demo, an OpenAI developer showed how the agent found a recipe and automatically purchased all the ingredients, a process that took several minutes but required no human intervention. “Browser memory” is another key piece. Atlas can remember what you’ve searched for before, what sites you’ve visited, and what projects you have in hand, using that data to suggest actions or automate routines it detects in your behavior. Everything is optional, but the message is clear: OpenAI wants Atlas to know you better than you know yourself. Nothing new with AI. The figures. OpenAI has 800 million weekly active ChatGPT users, double the number in February. Chrome has 3 billion and 71.9% global share. Google controls 90% of the search advertising market. Atlas sounds like a prelude to advertising coming to ChatGPT. Somehow they have to monetize the free users, who not only don’t pay OpenAI, but cost them money. And if OpenAI enters advertising, Google has the most to lose: it could be revenue that stops coming to them. Yes, but. Initial tests of ChatGPT agents have shown slow and imprecise results, where it is very effective to see the browser do tasks for us, but also much slower than if we take care of a few clicks. Plus, the hallucinations are still there. Google has a structural problem– Your business depends on people clicking on ads. If Atlas delivers direct answers without visiting web pages, Google loses. It has integrated Gemini into Chrome and added AI summaries to the results, but the basis of its model remains the same. Internet Explorer seemed invincible in 2007. Within five years, Chrome had surpassed it by offering something substantially better. The 150 billion drop in Alphabet’s capitalization is a sign that investors believe there is a chance that history could repeat itself. In Xataka | Privacy is dying since ChatGPT arrived. Now our obsession is for AI to know us as best as possible Featured image | Xataka with Mockuuups Studio

achieve the same thing that Google achieved with Android

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In two years, Alibaba has gone from e-commerce giant in regulatory crisis a global powerhouse in open source AI. Its family of Qwen models has accumulated 400 million downloads and 140,000 derived models arising from it, figures that surpass any Western competitor, except one: Llama, from Meta. Why is it important. Eddie Wu, CEO of Alibaba, has openly said that Qwen aspires to be “the Android of the AI ​​era.” It’s not marketing: the company has released 357 models in less than two years, a pace that neither OpenAI nor Google maintain nor want to maintain in their public version. The strategy copies Google’s manual with Android: giving away the operating system to dominate the infrastructure that supports it. Only this time the dominant player doesn’t come from Silicon Valley. The context: Alibaba poured more than $800 million into the country’s top four AI startups —Moonshot, Baichuan, Zhipu, MiniMax— before realizing its own technology could lead the market. Now those investments have stopped because the bet is on home. The road has been brutal. Between 2020 and 2022, Alibaba lost half of its stock market value due to the Chinese government’s regulatory offensive. DAMO Academy, its research arm, fired 30% of his staff. Some key scientists such as Yang Hongxiacreator of M6; either Zhou Changtechnical leader of Qwen, left for other companies such as ByteDance. The brain drain left a crater. Even so, Alibaba has managed to get back on its feet. The unexpected turn. In January 2025, DeepSeek launched R1an open source reasoning model that rivaled the o1 by OpenAI then. It had rapid and global adoption, and Alibaba seemed to lose steam. Joe Tsai, president of Alibaba, admitted the hit: “We said, ‘How is it possible that they got ahead of us?’” The response was drastic. On the first day of the Chinese New Year—a sacred holiday in China—the AI ​​team canceled his vacation and launched Qwen 2.5 Maxsurpassing DeepSeek V3. The war was not over. In figures. Alibaba has promised to invest 380 billion yuan ($53 billion) over three years in AI and cloud infrastructure. It’s more than it spent in the entire previous decade. In the second quarter of 2025, AI-related revenue grew by triple digits for the seventh consecutive quarter. Alibaba Cloud increased sales 26% year-on-year. The stock is up more than 90% so far this year. a rocket. The strategy. Free models generate demand for GPUs and training. That demand is monetized on Alibaba Cloud. It is the Microsoft-OpenAI model for Azurebut here Alibaba is an investor and beneficiary. Unlike Amazon (without competitive open source models), Google (closed models) or Meta (without its own cloud), Alibaba unites open model, cloud and developer ecosystem. And it’s already the fourth world in cloud behind the Amazon-Microsoft-Google trident. Of course, Alibaba opted for the wrong architecture while OpenAI scaled with GPT. When ChatGPT took off in December 2022, it had to admit the mistake. In August 2023 he opened the Qwen code just as Llama 2 crashed in Chinese. He filled that space immediately. In February 2025, Apple chose Alibaba as a partner for Apple Intelligence in China. Beastly validation of the then most valuable company in the world. Months later, Wu detailed the roadmap: expand the context, from 1 million to 100 million tokensand scale from one billion to ten billion parameters. Quantifiable bets with assigned budget. ByteDance is the only rival that keeps the pulse. Missing. The western market. Qwen dominates Asia but has not penetrated Europe or America like Llama has (and it is not like it has swept mobile phones like Android). Besides… The big question. Can a Chinese company that has endured regulatory purges and talent drains become the global standard for open source AI? What remains to be seen is whether the West agrees to rely on an AI operating system designed in Hangzhou. In Xataka | ‘World models’ aim to be the next great revolution in AI: this is what robotics needs to look like movies Featured image | Xataka

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