For years, Google Maps has been able to surface nearby coffee shops and provide turn-by-turn navigation. What it couldn't do was answer complex questions that blend ...

Google Maps will depend more heavily on artificial intelligence to help people figure out where they want to go and the best way to get there as part of a major redesign unveiled on Thursday.

Google today added Gemini AI to Google Maps, enabling a new Ask Maps feature. Gemini in maps can answer complex, real-world questions that Google says "a map could never answer before." There is a new ...