Google Home Stuns by Announcing AI Support for Claude and OpenClaw
Google told Google Home customers and developers on Wednesday that it would add smart home support for other AI agents beyond its own Gemini AI. The company’s announcement says that “any agent that supports calling [Model Context Protocol technology] tools can now interact with all of the devices and event history in the Google Home ecosystem.”
The announcement specifically names Anthropic’s Claude, the open-source AI agents OpenClaw and Hermes and the Google Antigravity coding platform as options that will soon work with Google Home.
Google previously released a version of its AI, called Gemini for Home, to act as a voice assistant and controller for all the smart devices that could connect to the Google Home app, including smart lights, smart heaters, home security cameras and smart thermostats.
Now, using Model Context Protocol technology that previously helped AI users add agents to Google Workspace....
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