At Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, AI has received numerous mentions – more than 120, by Google’s own counts. There were the typical announcements of new software features that the company hopes its developer community will take advantage of, and Google showed off how it uses technology, including AI in Search and AI in Android 15 (currently in beta).
With all the updates to its main AI tools — Gemini, DeepMind and more: Google CEO Sundar Pichai described this as “the Age of Gemini.” New apps benefit from upgrades, such as Request photosPreviews of AI, Imagen 3 and more.
Nearly every launch event held by major tech companies over the past year has focused on how quickly its AI models, development tools, features, and silicon save time. This is a sign that AI is not yet mainstream and is still in a phase of major confusion. (We try to demystify everything in our guide, AI Atlas.) But Google gave us 2 hours of AI and not much else.
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The company hasn’t talked about hardware at all, except for the new Trillium Tensor processors and the arrival of Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs in its data centers, both in 2025. Additionally, Axion TPUs are more energy efficient. He announced the Pixel 8A a week before the show.
For a more in-depth minute-by-minute experience, we’ve archived our live blogand you can find all our coverage of the event on our Google I/O hub.
So what’s new with Gemini?
Geminiof the company ChatGPT competitor, has been updated to make it more conversational, have better cross-app compatibility, and be smarter in general. Astra Project“the future of AI assistants,” takes advantage of Gemini to make conversation more natural and caches information for faster response. It can also use the camera to respond to voice queries based on what you’re pointing at with enhanced video processing.
Circle to Search, which we saw with Samsung’s latest flagship phone announcement, is usually coming to Android. The Gemini app assistant starts the Google Assistant replacement process, using an on-device template. The upcoming Gemini Nano is a smaller version of the model with less latency and device-specific features, like In-call scam warning pop-ups.
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The new Gemini mobile app in Android 15 brings Live (voice conversations with AI), use the camera as described above, has a feature called Gems, which are sets of instructions that you create that can access Google Drive to perform the complex operations you do. frequently, as well as solving the same complex research and planning tasks, such as booking travel (next Labor Day weekend!).
AI Previews is a part of search that delivers AI-assisted (processed, packaged, and analyzed) results for whatever you’re searching for; it launches in the United States this week.
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Ask Photos can search for specific information about the contents of your libraries, like finding a particular license plate that’s there… somewhere. It can use multi-step search to answer complex queries, like “where are the best restaurants in Texas for a birthday dinner,” which takes into account the season: a new AI search results page sums it all up this for you.
NotebookLM’s new virtual assistant.
Gemini 1.5 Pro, its analysis version, is coming out of preview and will be available to Gemini Advanced subscribers and all developers: it understands images better and will double the pop-up from 1 million to 2 million tokens later this year . (A token is a bit of information to process, so more tokens = better.)
Is your Gmail getting smarter?
In Google Workspace, Gemini 1.5 Pro becomes available in Workspace to summarize emails, as well as in Gmail on mobile. It will be rolled out to Labs users next month. In addition to summarizing, it can organize messages, export data, and save them as a workflow for future emails (coming in the fall). With the help of the new LearnLM template, it can help you with homework, lesson planning, and other education-related tasks.
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Final thoughts on AI
Upgraded Imagen 3 generative AI tools, via DeepMind, have improved text understanding and better details for image generation. This also brings a Musical AI sandbox and other types of video prompts: these are available in the company’s lab tools.
Veo is a new DeepMind-based generative model/tool for creating videos. Google featured an actor/comedian/rapper/writer/director/producer Donald Glover be its spokesperson.
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NotebookLM has a new “virtual teammate” that you can configure to manage, for example, summarizing all conversations to answer specific questions. It builds a collective memory for teams, functions as a project manager to create deadlines and point out bottlenecks.
Overall, the 1.5 Pro upgrade makes everything a little better. Gemini 1.5 Flash is a small version of Pro (with 1 million tokens), which will reach the developers.
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