Google says the release version of 2.5 Flash is better at reasoning, coding, and multimodality, but it uses 20–30 percent fewer tokens than the preview version. This edition is now live in Vertex AI, AI Studio, and the Gemini app. It will be made the default model in early June.

From its new Project Aura XR glasses to Chrome's wants-to-be-more-helpful AI mode, Gemini Live and new Flow generative video tool, Google puts AI everywhere.

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here. I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We're looking forward to plenty of news relating to Android,

Welcome to our Google IO 2025 live blog, where we’re bringing you all the latest from the search giant’s opening keynote at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California.

At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced two new ways to access its AI-powered “Live” mode, which lets users search for and ask about anything they can point their camera at. The feature will arrive in Google Search as part of its expanded AI Mode and is also coming to the Gemini app on iOS,

Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

Android 16 will complete the replacement of the Google Assistant with Gemini Live, the no-subscription-needed chatbot offshoot of its Gemini AI platform. It brings that AI assistant to devices beyond phones, and not just to the watches that you might expect, but also to cars, TVs, and extended-reality headsets. Here's what you need to know.

This is our ultimate vision for the Gemini app, to transform it into a universal AI assistant, an AI that’s personal, proactive and powerful, and one of our key milestones on the road to AGI, ” CEO of Google Deepmind Demis Hassabis said while onstage.