Google Gets Google Assistant On One Billion Devices, Ten Times The Amazon Alexa’s Installed Base

The Google launched "Google Assistant" in 2016 on the Google Pixel phone and since then has spread to millions of devices, I meant billion of devices.
These devices include a range of smart speakers like the Google Home line and third-party home speaker devices from JBL, Sony, Panasonic, LG, and countless others. Joining these are the smart displays like the Google Home Hub and third-party offerings from Lenovo, JBL, and LG.
Android Auto is a mobile app developed by Google to mirror features from an Android device to a car's compatible in-dash information and entertainment head unit or to a dashcam. With a phone running Android Auto,  you can have access to the Assistant from your car's infotainment screen.
When you done with all those and get home, the is Google Assistant for TVs, there's both Sony and LG displays with Android TV and the Assistant built in, set-top boxes from Nvidia and Xiaomi, and even a plan for smart soundbars. For laptops, if they are Chromium / Chrome OS based, they all have access to the Google Assistant. If your watch is a Wear OS device, you can get the Assistant on your watch, and it's even comes on some Nest cameras.

But the biggest chunk of Google Assistant rest on Android phones. You can have it also on your iOS phoen as you can freely download the Google Assistant app on iOS. On Android the Assistant comes built into the main Google app. This app is part of the "Google Play" Android app bundle, so it's included in the box in pretty much every Android phone, save for those sold in China.

Google claims in a blog post that "active users of the Google Assistant grew 4 times over the past year" and that its distribution jumped from 14 countries in eight languages in 2017 to 80 countries in 30 languages in 2018.
When it comes to smart home devices, Amazon still shines. According to Google, the number of different smart home devices Google Assistant supports "10,000 smart home devices from over 1,600 popular brands," Then Amazon just announced that currently there are 28,000 Alexa-compatible smart home devices from 4,500 different manufacturers.

Smart Assistants + Smart Speaker IQ Test Shoot Out For 2018

Loop Ventures recently completed and published the annual Smart Speaker / Assistant IQ Test. Loop Ventures pitted the top four smart assistants and speakers against each other as a part of the new test. This test grades speakers on a wide range of queries and commands and of course the answers provided.

Loop Ventures asked each smart speaker the same 800 questions, and they were graded on two metrics: 

1. Did it understand what was said? 

2. Did it deliver a correct response? The question set, which is designed to comprehensively test a smart speaker’s ability and utility, is broken into 5 categories as such:

Local – Where is the nearest coffee shop?
Commerce – Can you order me more paper towels?
Navigation – How do I get to uptown on the bus?
Information – Who do the Twins play tonight?
Command – Remind me to call Steve at 2 pm today.

The personal assistants Google Assistant, Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa and Cortana were queried  on their respective smart speakers, Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, Google Home, and Harman Kardon Invoke (Cortana).

Google Assistant was the smartest among the assistants and beat them in almost all these categories, and took the first place in the test. The Google assistant answered 87.9% questions correctly, and understood 100% of the 800 queries. Apple Siri came in second, understanding 99.6% of the queries and answering 74.6% of them correctly. Alexa managed to come in as the third, answering 72.5% of the queries correctly and understanding 99% of the queries. Cortana, also my least favorite among the four, yes I use all the four assistants, due to work I do, came last. 63.4% accuracy.