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Google canceled the independent AI Studio application and instead integrated it into Gemini. In the technology industry, Google has always been known for frequently adjusting product lines and even shutting down mature services.

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Google canceled the independent AI Studio application and instead integrated it into Gemini. In the technology industry, Google has always been famous for frequently adjusting product lines and even shutting down mature services. This time, however, the tech giant has taken its “product killer” nature to a new level—killing an app before it even had time to be officially released. This highly anticipated independent application, called Google AI Studio, was first unveiled at the Google I/O Developer Conference in May this year. According to previous plans, it will be launched on Android and iOS platforms, providing developers and creators with a portable environment to capture inspiration anytime, anywhere, build, test, iterate and even publish AI applications directly on their mobile phones. During this period, the app was launched for pre-order on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and quickly attracted enthusiastic pre-orders from approximately 800,000 users in 168 countries around the world, demonstrating the strong market demand for mobile AI software creation tools. Just before the application was about to be officially launched, the Google AI Studio team suddenly announced a change of plan on social platforms and decided to completely cancel the release of the independent mobile application. The official explanation given by Google is that they decided to take a completely different strategic route instead of "letting users download another new independent application." According to the latest official trends, the original core functions of Google AI Studio have not been completely abandoned. Instead, they will carry out in-depth cooperation with the Gemini team and be directly integrated into the Gemini main application on mobile and desktop. This means that Google is trying to build Gemini into a more comprehensive core hub, so that the generation, production and prototyping of AI applications are no longer limited to separate developer tools, but can "naturally emerge" through daily conversations with Gemini. In the future, both ordinary consumers and developers are expected to seamlessly obtain customized application building experiences in daily intelligent conversations. For users who had previously expected to complete pre-orders, although they can no longer download the independent AI Studio client, the official promises that the underlying powerful functions will eventually be realized in the iteration of Gemini. At the same time, as a long-standing mainstay for developers and professional users, the web version of Google AI Studio (aistudio.Google.com) will continue to remain and operate independently, and will