Last year we reported that Google was working on a virtual assistant for Android in response to Apple's Siri. Later we learned that the project was codenamed Majel when one of our sources told us it was already in testing and a possible launch was imminent. For months no new details were leaked until this week when Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch reported that the service will now be called Assistant.
According to an unnamed source, Tsotsis says the project is being led by the Android team along with the help of search engineer
