Google teases its new Gemini-powered Google Home speaker, coming in spring 2026

On Wednesday, Google offered an aboriginal preview of its adjacent flagship astute location device, the AI-powered Google Home speaker, launching successful outpouring 2026. The device, priced astatine $99, volition beryllium built astir the company’s AI adjunct Gemini AI and volition travel successful 4 colors: Porcelain, Hazel, Berry, and Jade.

The somewhat delayed timing of the motorboat is an intentional prime connected Google’s part, explained Anish Kattukaran, Chief Product Officer astatine Google Home and Nest, successful a property briefing up of Wednesday’s event.

The institution archetypal wants to guarantee the caller Gemini functionality reaches its different Google Home customers connected older devices and gives them clip to enactment retired the kinks. Those existing customers volition beryllium capable to effort retired Gemini successful Early Access, connection feedback, and study bugs, helium says.

“It’s got to enactment for the existing users. We don’t privation to unit you to bargain a caller 1 unless you privation to,” said Kattukaran. “And by the way, we deliberation you whitethorn privation to, but you don’t request to,” helium added.

Being built for Gemini means the caller talker volition person a processor susceptible of handling Gemini AI, which volition besides grip things similar inheritance sound suppression, reverb (echo effects), and echo cancellation. That way, the talker won’t (in theory) get confused if you’re talking to Gemini Live and idiosyncratic other who’s further distant successful the country begins to speak.

The caller instrumentality volition besides person a airy ringing underneath it that volition present much expressive, ocular feedback of what Gemini is doing, similar listening, thinking, reasoning oregon responding successful Gemini Live mode. (Gemini Live volition necessitate a Google Home Premium subscription.)

In presumption of its talker capabilities, the Google Home instrumentality volition connection 360-degree audio and the quality to adhd the instrumentality to talker groups — collections of aggregate speakers that play audio simultaneously — successful the Google Home app, arsenic before. Users volition besides present beryllium capable to brace 2 Google Home speakers with a Google TV Streamer — Google’s streaming instrumentality for TVs — for a surround-sound benignant setup, which is thing its users person agelong requested.

The instrumentality is covered with 3D-knitted worldly that is said to trim cloth discarded and beryllium much eco-friendly.

Google plans to motorboat the caller instrumentality successful outpouring 2026 successful the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.