Project Astra debuted at I/O 2024 as a next-generation AI assistant that can view the world around you, and provide advice and tips throughout the day. Since then, Astra has been incorporated into the camera and screen-sharing capabilities of the Gemini app and Google says it upgraded Astra's voice output to be more natural with native audio,

This year's Google I/O developer's conference was packed with AI. Google showed off the latest updates to its Gemini AI platform and debuted its pricey new AI Ultra subscription plan (spoiler: it's $250 per month).

Google’s Gemini Diffusion demo didn’t get much airtime at I/O, but its blazing speed—and potential for coding—has AI insiders speculating about a shift in the model wars.

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,

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.

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.

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company announced Deep Think, an “enhanced” reasoning mode for its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Deep Think allows the model to consider multiple answers to questions before responding, boosting its performance on certain benchmarks.

Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.

Google has launched a new Gemini AI Ultra AI subscription that costs $250 per month: Here's what you get from the most expensive tier.

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.