Reddit is expanding a cloud computing partnership with Google to use its Gemini AI tools for Reddit Answers. Google said Wednesday it’s helping Reddit manage information from 100,000 online communities and more than 400 million weekly active users, making their online conversations more searchable for Reddit Answers.
For users, it could mean more accurate search in addition to summaries, follow-up questions and the ability to have an AI conversation about the content, not unlike what users of chatbot services such as ChatGPT would expect.
Reddit unveiled Answers in late 2024, telling its users that it would be easier to search for content from Reddit, more often than not answers to questions, without the need to go to Google and use its search function. Reddit already had a $60 million deal with Google to help train generative AI models on its content.
The company has also been expanding its translation services across its communities with the help of AI.
