Updates for Google I/O 2026

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During this year's Google I/O, Google demonstrated that we are now clearly in the era of Gemini agents, moving beyond an Artificial Intelligence that simply answers questions, to an Artificial Intelligence that takes action on your behalf.

The best evidence of this progress is the way users and creators are leveraging our products.
The AI Mode in Search has now surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, with queries doubling every quarter. At the same time, the popularity of the Gemini app has skyrocketed, surpassing 900 million monthly users.

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Additionally, at the platform level, more than 8,5 million developers are now building new apps and experiences with our models on a monthly basis.

Google is building on this momentum by unleashing hidden productivity and creativity potential, bringing a natural, interactive AI experience to more products and device formats:

Users come to YouTube with many questions. The Ask YouTube completely redefines this experience, aggregating relevant long-form videos and Shorts into interactive, structured responses, allowing you to jump straight to the points that interest you most.
To help you complete tasks at the speed of your voice, the Docs Live allows you to verbally “capture” all your ideas. At the same time, Gemini acts as a creative partner to outline, structure, and draft the document with you.
The Google Photos, a new image creation and editing tool, is based on our latest Nano Banana model. It manages each element as a separate object rather than a flat, one-piece image, giving you complete creative control to bring to life exactly what you’ve imagined.
This autumn, the new ones are arriving smart audio glasses with Gemini built in. They will deliver voice assistance discreetly in your ear, allowing you to move and interact with the world around you without having to look at a screen.

The breadth of this innovation is based on Google's integrated and differentiated approach — from models and programming, to new agent experiences.

Cutting-edge models: Google launched the Gemini 3.5 Flash, which combines cutting-edge intelligence and action, offering four times the speed of similar models. It also presented the Gemini Omni, the new model that can create any form of result from any form of data, starting with video.
Programming via agents: Google released the Google Antigravity 2.0, evolving its platform — which is designed with agents in mind — into a standalone desktop application, where anyone can create and manage AI agents.
Proactive personal agents: Furthermore, it brought the power of agents to consumers. Gemini Spark is your new personal agent, available 24 hours a day. The Daily Brief offers you a smart morning summary to easily organize your day. At the same time, the Search is enriched with agents that autonomously search for information for you, acquires generative UI and integrates a smart, universal shopping cart (Universal Cart).

As Google embraces this new era of agents, ensuring trust and expanding the boundaries of discovery are top priorities for the company. To help users navigate the web safely, it’s bringing SynthID and C2PA verification technology to Search, Chrome, and the Gemini app . It’s also leveraging DeepMind’s CodeMender agent to strengthen the security of its platforms and launching Gemini for Science , giving researchers the AI tools they need to accelerate their work.

Google is excited to see how this will open new avenues to accelerate its mission and transform its products to become more useful for everyone, wherever they are.
You can see all relevant Google announcements gathered here. here.

And the announcements continue with the start of Google Marketing Live , where the company will share more about how these advances in AI will create new opportunities for businesses and advertisers.