Google adds social sharing to Gemini AI avatars
Google announced that its Gemini service now lets users create personal AI avatars from short face‑and‑voice recordings and share them with friends. After recording a brief video in a quiet, well‑lit space, the avatar can be saved in Gemini and referenced in prompts by tagging the user’s Google username. Users invite others by entering their Gmail address, and the invitee can accept or decline,…
What you can do with it
AI at Work →Create branded visuals with Gemini
Creates and shares personal AI avatars for collaborative image and video generation.
- Who for
- marketers
- Cost
- Price not stated
- Effort
- minutes
Use it for
- Create branded visuals
- Produce social media clips
- Personalize marketing assets
How to set it up · From the article
- Record a short video of your face while speaking
- Tag your avatar in a Gemini prompt using @username
Watch out Only English; unavailable in EEA, Switzerland, UK
Not for everyone not in the EEA, UK, Switzerland
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Key points from the news
- Google lets Gemini users create personal AI avatars using face and voice recordings
- Users can share avatars with friends via Gmail invite and tag them in prompts
- Feature supports only English and is unavailable in the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK; users must be 18+
The feature is limited to English and is not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom. Google requires participants to be at least 18 years old and to have a personal Google account. The rollout is currently limited to these regions, but the company says the tools are designed to let people appear together in AI‑generated images and videos, expanding collaborative creative possibilities.
Google provides step‑by‑step instructions on its support site, and the avatar can be added via the Gemini web interface by clicking the Add Files > Avatar option and scanning a QR code with a phone. The move signals a push toward more social, personalized AI content creation.
Google makes Gemini’s AI avatars social, so friends can now appear in each other’s content
digitaltrends.com · 30 October 2026
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