Who is building the agent operating system?
Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.
Google · Conversational UX
Natural interaction quality · updated 2026-06-01
Gemini Live delivers strong real-time, multimodal conversation across devices.
How natural, fast, and trustworthy is the back-and-forth? Voice quality, latency, interruption handling, multimodality, and the sense that the assistant understood you the first time.
- NewsWWDC 2026: What to expect, from Siri's revamp to Apple Intelligence and iOS 27TechCrunch · 2026-06-08
Day-of preview of the conversational Siri revamp, Gemini backing, and cross-app multi-step capabilities in iOS 27.
- NewsGoogle introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integrationTechCrunch · 2026-05-19
A continuously-running cloud agent that uses existing Gmail/Workspace access to act on a user's behalf.
- AnalysisA Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic EraOne Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) · 2026-02-18
A models/apps/harnesses framework: the harness that lets a model take real actions now matters as much as IQ.
- PrimaryGemini as a universal AI assistant (Google I/O 2025)Google DeepMind · 2025-05-20
Google's intent to fold Project Astra and Mariner into Gemini as a 'universal assistant' that sees, acts, and remembers.