Google announced that it will be upgrading Google Assistant with Gemini "in the coming months." By the end of this year, people will not be able to download Google Assistant from app stores as it will be discontinued.

Google will replace Google Assistant on Android phones with Gemini later this year, the company announced on Friday. Google said in a blog post that it'll upgrade more users from Google Assistant to Gemini "over the coming months.

This is the first official declaration from Google that the Google Assistant is on its way out, but it’s not like we weren’t expecting it. Gemini is already the default experience on most mainstream Android devices,