Google 将关闭 Gemini 的 Gems，转向“技能”功能

随着 Meta 的 Muse 和 Instinct 等一体化 AI Agent 开始走红，Google 宣布将关闭 Gemini 中名为“Gems”的功能。该功能此前允许用户为特定任务构建自定义 AI 助手。不过，用户为创建 Gems 所投入的工作不会被销毁：Gems 将被自动迁移为可用于不同 AI 任务的“技能”。

Gemini 应用内正在分享此次变更的详细信息，其中一条提示告知用户，自 2026 年 11 月 17 日起，Gems 将变为技能。Google 表示，公司会将 Gems 迁移至新格式，用户无需采取任何操作即可完成过渡。在此之前，Gems 本身仍可继续使用。

Gems 于 2024 年推出，旨在帮助用户教会 AI 执行特定任务，无需反复输入同样的指令。例如，Google 的一些预设 Gems 包括学习教练、头脑风暴助手、职业顾问、编程伙伴和编辑。用户还可以根据自身需求创建 Gems，例如跑步教练、营养师或旅行规划师。这些自定义助手也可以分享给其他人，Google 原本希望借此提升 Gemini AI 应用的受欢迎程度。

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Gems 即将关闭的消息，再次说明 Google 不应如此迅速地为每项新的 AI 功能赋予独立品牌名称、图标以及应用导航中的显著位置——特别是在未来还会不断调整、将某项功能并入另一项功能的情况下。需要说明的是，这一问题早在 AI 时代之前就是 Google 战略上的弱点。例如，该公司一度同时运营多款不同的消息和通信应用。

不过，即使改名为技能，原 Gems 的使用方式仍不如直接在 Meta Muse 这类聊天机器人中输入文字那样面向消费者。Google 指出，用户需要在任务对话线程中输入正斜杠 /，才能选择想要使用的技能——这是一种工程师通常比普通用户更偏好的用户界面。

Gems 将逐步退出的消息最先由 9to5Google 于周末报道。

As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google announced it’s shutting down the Gemini feature known as “Gems,” which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for specific tasks. However, the work users invested in creating the Gems won’t be destroyed. Gems will be automatically migrated to “skills” that can be used across different AI tasks.

Details about the change are being shared in the Gemini app, where a message warns users that Gems will become skills starting on November 17, 2026. The company said it will migrate the Gems to the new format, so users won’t have to do anything to make the transition. The Gems themselves will remain usable until then.

Launched in 2024, Gems were meant to help users teach their AI to perform certain tasks without having to repeat the instructions. For instance, some of Google’s premade Gems had included a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a coding partner, and an editor. Users could also make Gems for their own needs, like a running coach, nutritionist, or vacation planner. These custom assistants could also be shared with others, which Google had hoped would help make its Gemini AI app more popular.

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The news of Gems’ shutdown is another example of why Google shouldn’t be so quick to give every new AI feature its own brand name, icon, and prominent placement in its app’s navigation — especially if it’s going to shuffle things around over time, merging one feature into another. (To be clear, this has been a failing point of Google’s strategy long before the AI era. At one point, for instance, the company was operating multiple different messaging and communication apps at the same time.)

Yet, even as skills, the former Gems still aren’t as consumer-friendly as just typing in text to a chatbot like Meta’s Muse. Instead, Google notes you’ll have to enter a forward slash “/” in a task thread to select the skill you want to use — a user interface that engineers, not regular folks, tend to prefer.

Gems’ wind-down was first reported over the weekend by 9to5Google.