Overview
- Bloomberg reports Google has opened a private, invite‑only beta of the Gemini macOS app to select external testers under the internal code name Janus.
- The test build supports web search, document uploads and analysis, conversation history, and generation of images, video, music, tables, and charts.
- App code references a Desktop Intelligence setting that, when enabled, allows Gemini to view screen context and pull content from other Mac apps only while Gemini is in use.
- Google told testers this early version contains only “critical features” and is intended to gather bug reports and capability feedback before further additions.
- The interface resembles the existing iPhone and iPad Gemini apps, and the effort moves Google closer to rivals that already provide native Mac clients like ChatGPT and Claude.