Glance AI: Google Backs Lock Screen Shopping with Gemini AI & Personalized Avatars
Glance uses Google's Gemini AI for lock screen shopping with personalized avatars, backed by new Google funding.
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Glance AI: Google Backs Lock Screen Shopping with Gemini AI & Personalized Avatars
Lock screen platform Glance announced today that it is launching a new generative AI-based shopping experience. It will suggest different outfits on a user’s personalized avatar. The company is partnering with Google to use the company’s Gemini models and Vertex AI to deploy the experience. Image Credits:Glance Separately, the company also got fresh backing from Google — which was already an investor — according to people familiar with the matter. Glance and Google didn’t comment on the funding details. Glance said that it is already experimenting with the new-gen AI-powered experience in the U.S. through a new app called Glance AI. The startup plans to roll out this experience to all users in the U.S. and India in the coming months. Google is trying to have more companies use its Gemini and Cloud platforms for AI implementation in India. The company is also investing in startups in parallel. Most recently, it backed the webtoon pl…