Google Assistant, the search giant's answer to Amazon's artificial intelligence assistant Alexa, debuted in May 2016. At the time of its introduction the helper only lived inside the firm's messaging app Allo.

Since then it's evolved to occupy Google's smart speakers and car products as well as on Android phones. Initially, the AI-assistant was locked inside the Pixel phones and then was adopted by other manufacturers.


But Android devices running Google's assistant are largely reliant on being able to remotely process the data required to provide answers to queries. This process is done in the cloud.

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