Google’s biometric token Opal is coming to Gemini

Google’s sentiment coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company said on Wednesday that it is integrating the tool, which lets you create AI-powered applets, into the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps, which Google calls Gems.

Introduced in 2024, the Gems are customized versions of Geminis designed for specific missions or scenarios. For example, some great pre-made elements from Google include a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a coding partner, and an editor.

Meanwhile, Opal focuses on helping users create widgets or mash up existing apps. To use this feature, users describe in natural language the app they want to create, and the tool will use different Gemini models to create it.

Now, Opal is available directly from Gemini on the web, where it can be found in the gem manager. The tool has a visual editor that shows the steps required to create an app. Through the editor, users can rearrange the steps and link them together, without having to write code.

Google notes that the visual editor also includes a new view in Gemini that will take a user’s written prompts and turn them into a list of steps. This makes it easy to create applications and learn how they work.

For more advanced customization options, users can move from Gemini to the advanced editor at opal.google.com. Widgets can be reused after they are created.

The popularity of using artificial intelligence to program applications and create applications, known as “biocoding,” has risen over the past couple of years. The market now contains apps from startups like Lovable and Cursor, as well as offerings from AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI. There are also tools focused directly on consumers, such as those offered by startup Wabi for building AI-powered apps.

Gemini’s web app is available at gemini.google.com.