In May 2026, Google announced a slew of AI updates including Gemini 3.5 and Gemini Omni models, Android Halo, Universal Cart, Google Health app, Fitbit Air, and more, focusing on making AI more proactive and integrated into daily life.
Launched Gemini 3.5 for agentic tasks and Gemini Omni for creative generation.
Android Halo manages agents; Universal Cart simplifies shopping across services.
Learn how Googlers used AI to produce Google I/O 2026, from the jellyfish pre-show to the “TPU Training Day” film, see how Gemini helped make I/O happen this year.
Google I/O 2026 was built using a suite of AI tools including Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria.
The team blended human artistry with AI to create a short film, visual identity, and immersive experiences.
Test your knowledge of Google I/O 2026 announcements with a quiz built using Google AI Studio. Learn how even non-developers can create interactive experiences with the help of Gemini.
Google AI Studio now features Antigravity coding agent for rapid app development.
Non-developers can use Gemini to generate prompts and build quizzes.
At Google I/O 2026, Google announced Gemini Omni and the Gemini 3.5 family. Gemini Omni can create content from any input, starting with video, and edit videos through conversation. Gemini 3.5 Flash is built for complex agentic tasks, enabling multi-step workflows and code generation. This article showcases 11 video demos of these models, including video editing, agent tasks, UI generation, and more.
Gemini Omni generates new content from video input and allows video editing via natural language.
Gemini 3.5 Flash excels at long-horizon agentic tasks and supports multi-step workflows.
Here are 12 of the biggest Google I/O 2026 keynote moments, including news about Gemini Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash, information agents in Search, Universal Cart, Neural Expressive, Gemini Spark, and intelligent eyewear.
Gemini Omni creates anything from any input, starting with video.
Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers frontier performance for agents and coding.
At Google I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni, AI Search upgrades, Universal Cart, Gemini Spark, and more. Here are the top highlights.
Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Omni models bring advanced intelligence and multimodal capabilities.
AI Search gets AI Mode and generative UI, enabling custom layouts and multi-input search.
Google at I/O 2026 announced major upgrades to AI Search, including AI Mode powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, a reimagined intelligent Search box, Search agents, agentic coding capabilities, and expanded Personal Intelligence, ushering in a new era of search.
AI Mode surpasses 1 billion monthly users with queries doubling every quarter
New intelligent Search box with AI-powered suggestions and multimodal input
Gemini 3.5 is Google's latest model family combining frontier intelligence with action, starting with 3.5 Flash. It excels at agentic tasks and coding, with speeds 4x faster than other frontier models. Available today in Gemini app, AI Mode, and developer platforms. 3.5 Pro coming next month.
Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers frontier performance for agents and coding, outperforming previous models.
4x faster output tokens per second than other frontier models.
At Google I/O 2026, CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled major AI advances including the multimodal Gemini Omni model, faster Gemini 3.5 Flash, new Ask YouTube and Docs Live features, eighth-gen TPUs, and expanded SynthID watermarking partnerships with OpenAI, Kakao, and Eleven Labs.
Gemini Omni generates any output modality from any input, starting with video. Available today in Gemini app, Google Flow, and YouTube Shorts.
Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms previous models on coding and economic value tasks, with 4x speed and less than half the cost of comparable frontier models.
One year after launch, AI Mode has surpassed a billion monthly active users globally, with users shifting from keywords to natural language queries, using voice and images, and asking longer questions.
AI Mode launched a year ago in the U.S., now has over 1 billion MAU globally, with queries doubling each quarter.
More than 1 in 6 U.S. searches use voice or images; image searches grew over 40% month-over-month.
This week, Google Finance launches its AI-powered version across Europe with full local language support, introducing features like AI research, advanced charts, real-time intel, and live earnings calls.
AI-powered research for stocks and market trends with links.
Advanced visualizations including technical indicators.
Google launches The Small Brief, enlisting three advertising icons to create high-quality campaigns for local businesses using AI creative studio Flow. The initiative highlights AI's storytelling power and aims to inspire others.
Google announced a wave of AI updates in April 2026, including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs, Gemma 4 open model, free video generation with Google Vids, Deep Research Max, Colab Learn Mode, and new AI applications in healthcare, education, and translation.
Google Cloud Next '26 unveiled the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and eighth-generation TPUs for the agentic era.
Google released Gemma 4, the most capable open model per parameter, with over 500 million downloads since Gen 1.
Google introduces event-driven Webhooks for the Gemini API, a push-based notification system that eliminates the need for inefficient polling, improving efficiency for long-running tasks. It adheres to the Standard Webhooks specification, ensures security with signed requests, and supports global or per-request configuration.
Event-driven Webhooks replace polling with real-time push notifications
Follows Standard Webhooks spec for reliability and security
Google Translate marks 20 years, evolving from a 2006 AI experiment to a tool supporting nearly 250 languages and over a billion monthly users. The new pronunciation practice feature for Android uses AI to provide instant feedback on your speech. The article shares 20 fun facts covering technical evolution, user behavior, and cultural impact.
Google Translate turns 20 with a new pronunciation practice tool on Android for English, Spanish, and Hindi.
It now supports nearly 250 languages and translates about 1 trillion words monthly for over a billion users.
Google's TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) are custom chips designed from the ground up over a decade ago to run AI models. The newest generation delivers 121 exaflops of compute power with double the bandwidth of previous generations. This article introduces a video explaining how TPUs work.
TPUs are Google's custom chips designed specifically for AI models, developed over a decade ago.
The latest TPU generation offers 121 exaflops of compute power and double the bandwidth.