Google Teases Its New Gemini-powered Google Home Speaker, Coming In Spring 2026

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

The somewhat delayed timing of nan 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 first wants to guarantee nan caller Gemini functionality reaches its different Google Home customers connected older devices and gives them clip to activity retired nan kinks. Those existing customers will beryllium capable to effort retired Gemini successful Early Access, connection feedback, and study bugs, he says.

“It’s sewage to activity for nan existing users. We don’t want to unit you to bargain a caller 1 unless you want to,” said Kattukaran. “And by nan way, we deliberation you whitethorn want to, but you don’t request to,” he added.

Being built for Gemini intends nan caller speaker will person a processor tin of handling Gemini AI, which will besides grip things for illustration inheritance sound suppression, reverb (echo effects), and echo cancellation. That way, nan speaker won’t (in theory) get confused if you’re talking to Gemini Live and personification other who’s further distant successful nan room originates to speak.

The caller instrumentality will besides person a ray ringing underneath it that will present much expressive, ocular feedback of what Gemini is doing, for illustration listening, thinking, reasoning aliases responding successful Gemini Live mode. (Gemini Live will require a Google Home Premium subscription.)

In position of its speaker capabilities, nan Google Home instrumentality will connection 360-degree audio and nan expertise to adhd nan instrumentality to speaker groups — collections of aggregate speakers that play audio simultaneously — successful nan Google Home app, arsenic before. Users will besides now beryllium capable to brace 2 Google Home speakers pinch a Google TV Streamer — Google’s streaming instrumentality for TVs — for a surround-sound style setup, which is thing its users person agelong requested.

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

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