随着像 Meta 的 Muse 和 Instinct 这样的全能型 AI 助手逐渐流行起来，谷歌宣布将关闭其名为 “Gems” 的功能。该功能曾允许用户为特定任务创建自定义的 AI 助手。不过，用户为创建这些自定义助手所投入的工作成果不会被丢失——这些自定义助手会被自动迁移到新的 “技能” 格式中，从而可以在不同的 AI 任务中使用。
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.
关于这一变更的详细信息已在 Gemini 应用程序中公布。系统会向用户发出提示，告知他们从 2026 年 11 月 17 日起，这些自定义助手将转变为 “技能” 并可供使用。谷歌表示会自动完成迁移过程，因此用户无需采取任何额外操作。在这些自定义助手被迁移之前，它们仍然可以正常使用。
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.
Gems 功能于 2024 年推出，旨在帮助用户无需重复输入指令即可训练他们的 AI 来完成特定任务。例如，谷歌预先制作的一些 “Gems” 功能包括学习辅导工具、头脑风暴辅助工具、职业规划工具以及代码编写辅助工具等。用户也可以根据自己的需求创建自定义助手（如跑步教练、营养师或度假计划工具）。这些自定义助手还可以与他人共享，谷歌希望此举能提升其 Gemini AI 应用的受欢迎程度。
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 pre-made 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.
Gems的关闭再次证明了：谷歌不应过于急于为每一个新的人工智能功能都赋予独立的名称、图标，并在应用程序的导航系统中给予这些功能显眼的位置——尤其是当这些功能未来可能会被合并或调整时。事实上，这早已成为谷歌策略中的一个缺陷。早在人工智能时代之前，谷歌就曾同时运营着多个不同的消息传递和通信应用程序。
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.)
不过，即便如此，使用Gems这样的功能仍然不如直接通过聊天机器人（比如Meta的Muse）输入文本来得方便。用户需要在一个任务对话框中输入“/”符号来选择想要使用的功能；这种用户界面更受工程师的青睐，而非普通用户的喜好。
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.
关于Gems关闭的消息最早是由9to5Google在周末发布的。
Gems’ wind-down was first reported over the weekend by 9to5Google.