Google redeems Gemini after awkward Olympics ad in a Super Bowl spot among many sentimental AI contenders

For sixty seconds during Super Bowl LX, Google Gemini managed to seem like a tool the average person might like. That's a surprisingly rare feat, but one that many of the biggest AI companies attempted during the big game.

In a soft-spoken, emotionally textured ad titled “New Home,” a mother uses Gemini to help her young son imagine what their new house might feel like. She pulls up a photo of the empty bedroom and asks Gemini to recreate it with her son’s toys, bed, and even the dog’s bed from a photo in their current home. They decorate. They wander through a photorealistic version of the new yard, dreaming up possibilities. The tech is present, but never central.

It seems Google learned what it got so wrong during the 2024 Summer Olympics with its miscalculated ...