Google AI Delivers Major Updates: New Gemini Features and Broader AI Capabilities Released at I/O 2025

Google AI is rapidly evolving. Significant updates are rolling out across its Gemini models. New features are also being introduced in its integrated products. These latest advancements from Google were showcased at I/O 2025. They are designed to make artificial intelligence even more powerful. They also aim to be more personal and universally helpful. Looking for the latest Google AI updates and Gemini new features from I/O 2025? This article summarizes the key announcements you need to know.

New AI Capabilities for Google Search Now Rolling Out

Google Search is getting a major AI upgrade, with several features becoming available now or very soon.

AI Mode for Everyone: AI Mode is now rolling out to all users in the U.S. directly on Search. You can opt into Labs for immediate access to these new features.
Deeper Research: For more detailed answers, AI Mode in Labs will soon include powerful deep research capabilities.
Talk to Search Live with Your Camera: Imagine asking Search questions about what you see through your camera. Get answers in real-time. This live conversation feature is coming this summer.
AI That Helps You Get Things Done: New AI features in Search will soon help with tasks. These include booking event tickets, making restaurant reservations, or scheduling local appointments.
Smarter Data Understanding: Soon, Search’s AI will analyze complex data. It will also create helpful charts for topics like sports statistics or financial trends.
Enhanced Shopping Experience: A new AI-powered shopping experience combines advanced AI with Google’s vast product information. It helps you discover products and compare options. You also get personalized recommendations.
Virtual Try-On for Apparel: You can now try on billions of clothing items virtually. Simply upload a photo of yourself to start trying on clothes. This feature is rolling out to Search Labs users in the U.S.
AI-Powered Price Tracking: A new feature lets you track prices on product listings. You will get notified if the price drops to your desired budget.
AI Overviews Are More Widespread: AI Overviews summarize information at the top of search results. These are now used by over 1.5 billion people monthly across 200 countries and territories. This growth has led to over a 10% increase in Google usage for queries that show AI Overviews.
Powerful Gemini Now in Search: Gemini 2.5, Google’s advanced AI model, is now directly integrated into Search for AI Mode. It is also integrated for AI Overviews in the U.S, making your searches even more intelligent and comprehensive.

Experience New, Helpful Features for Gemini

gemini app helps productivity and interaction

The Gemini app is receiving a suite of new features designed to enhance user interaction and productivity.

Interactive Quiz Feature: Gemini is now an even better study partner with a new interactive quiz feature. Simply ask Gemini to create a practice quiz on… and it will generate questions for you. This is available now.
Gemini That Knows You Better: In the coming weeks, Gemini Live will become more personal. It will connect with some of your favorite Google apps like Google Maps, Calendar, Tasks, and Keep. This connection will enable in-conversation actions, making Gemini more helpful with your daily plans.
Camera and Screen Sharing for iOS: The rollout of camera and screen sharing capabilities for Gemini Live will begin on 21st May 2025. These features will be available for users on this date. Users will start accessing these features. This feature is available for Gemini app users on iOS. This expands the capabilities beyond Android.
Transform Ideas into Content: A new Create menu within Canvas is available starting today. It lets you easily transform text into interactive infographics, web pages, and quizzes. You can even create podcast-style Audio Overviews in 45 languages.
Smarter Research with Your Documents: Starting today, you can upload PDFs and images directly into Deep Research. This allows for more comprehensive reports. These reports combine public information with your provided content.
Include Your Drive and Gmail in Research: Soon, you’ll be able to link documents from your Google Drive or Gmail. You can also customize the sources Gemini uses for Deep Research.
Gemini That Takes Action For You: Agent Mode, an experimental feature, is coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers. With this, you can simply describe your end goal, and Gemini can work to get things done on your behalf.
Gemini in Chrome: Gemini in Chrome will begin rolling out on desktop. It will be available to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. These subscribers use English as their Chrome language on Windows and macOS.
Growing User Base: The Gemini app now has over 400 million monthly active users.

Advancements and Availability for Gemini Models

Google is continually making its core Gemini AI models smarter, faster, and safer for everyone. Here’s what the latest updates mean for you:

Smarter and More Capable: The latest Gemini models, especially Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, are now even better at understanding complex requests, writing code, and learning. Think of it as your Gemini assistant getting a significant brain upgrade!
Faster Responses: A new, more efficient version of Gemini called Gemini 2.5 Flash is designed for speed, meaning you’ll get answers and complete tasks even quicker. This faster version is already available in the Gemini app.
Enhanced Security: Google has strengthened Gemini’s security features, making it Google’s most secure model family to date. This means your interactions are better protected.
Better for Learning: Gemini is becoming the leading AI for learning, making it an even more effective study partner.
Advanced Features for Power Users (and coming to more people): Experimental features like Deep Think will enable Gemini to handle extremely complex math problems. It will solve intricate equations. It will also address coding problems. This shows a glimpse of even more advanced capabilities coming to the models.

These updates mean that the AI powering your Google products is continuously improving. This leads to a more efficient, intelligent, and secure experience for you.

New Options to Access Google AI Tools

Google is introducing new subscription plans and access pathways for its AI tools.

Google AI Ultra: A new AI subscription plan offers the highest usage limits. It provides access to Google’s most capable models and premium features. Subscribers also get 30 TB of storage and access to YouTube Premium. Google AI Ultra is available in the U.S. now, with more countries coming soon.
College Student Offer: College students in the U.S., Brazil, Indonesia, Japan and the U.K. are also eligible to get a free upgrade of Gemini for a whole school year.
Google AI Pro: Google AI Pro offers a suite of AI tools for $19.99/month, including special features and higher rate limits for the Gemini app, Flow, and NotebookLM.

Unlock Your Creativity with New AI Art, Music, and Video Tools

Google is making it easier than ever for anyone to create with AI. It is now more powerful, allowing for stunning images and videos. You can also make unique music with it.

Create Amazing Videos:
- Veo 3 lets you generate videos with sound, offering a powerful new way to bring your ideas to life. This is available for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S.
- Even Veo 2 is getting upgrades. These upgrades give you more control over camera angles. You also have the ability to add or remove objects in your videos.
- Google also unveiled Flow, a new AI film-making tool. It puts cinematic control in your hands. This allows you to create stunning movies with ease. Flow is available for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S.
Generate High-Quality Images:
- Imagen 4 is Google’s most advanced image creation tool yet. It produces incredibly clear and detailed images, whether you want photorealistic scenes or abstract art. It’s great for intricate textures, spelling words accurately, and even creating images for printing. Imagen 4 is available in the Gemini app, with a super-fast version coming soon.
Make Your Own Music:
- Music AI Sandbox, powered by Lyria 2, gives creators powerful tools for music composition and exploration. You can arrange rich vocals, from solo singers to full choirs. There’s even Lyria RealTime for creating and performing music live!
Ensuring Authenticity:
- To help everyone identify AI-generated content, Google is rolling out SynthID Detector. This tool can quickly verify content that has been watermarked with SynthID, providing more transparency.

These new tools put professional-grade creative power directly into your hands. They make it easier than ever to turn your imagination into reality.

The Future of AI Assistants: Prototypes and Rollouts

Google is actively prototyping and rolling out the next generation of AI assistants. They are moving towards a more contextual and intelligent future.

Gemini as a World Model: Google is working to extend Gemini 2.5 Pro. It aims to make it a world model that can understand various aspects of the world. It will also simulate these aspects for planning and new experiences.
Project Astra Updates: Updates to Project Astra include more natural voice output with native audio, improved memory and computer control. These capabilities will eventually come to Gemini Live, Search, and the Live API for developers. They will also appear in new form factors like Android XR glasses.
Assistance for Blind/Low-Vision Community: A prototype built with Aira assists members of the blind and low-vision community with everyday tasks.
Conversational Tutor Prototype: Google is prototyping a conversational tutor. It can help with homework. The tutor walks through problems, identifies mistakes, and generates diagrams. This research experience will be coming to Google products later this year.
Android XR Devices and Glasses: The first Android XR device, Samsung’s Project Moohan, is coming later this year. Google also shared a sneak peek at how Gemini will work on glasses with Android XR in real-world scenarios. These scenarios include messaging, appointments, directions, and live language translation. Prototype glasses are now in the hands of trusted testers. Google is partnering with eyewear brands like Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Developers will be able to start building for this platform later this year.

Real-time Communication Enhancements

Innovations are making remote communication more immersive and breaking down language barriers.

Google Beam Evolution: Project Starline is a 3D video technology for remote conversations. It is evolving into a new platform called Google Beam. Google is collaborating with Zoom. They are also collaborating with HP. Their goal is to bring the first Google Beam devices to market. These will be available to select customers later this year.
Speech Translation in Google Meet: Speech translation is available now in Google Meet. It enables near real-time translation. This maintains voice quality and tone. It fosters free-flowing conversation.

New Developer Tools and Launches

Google is continually enhancing its developer ecosystem with new tools and features to build AI-powered apps.

Developer Growth: Over 7 million developers are building with Gemini, five times more than this time last year. Gemini usage on Vertex AI is up 40 times.
Text-to-Speech Previews: New previews for text-to-speech in 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash are released, with first-of-its-kind support for multiple speakers via native audio.
Live API Update: The Live API is introducing a preview version of audio-visual input. It also includes native audio out dialogue. These features are for building conversational experiences.
Jules Beta: Jules is a parallel, asynchronous agent for users’ GitHub repositories, now open to all developers in beta.
Gemma 3n: Gemma 3n is Google’s latest fast and efficient open multimodal model. It is engineered to run smoothly on phones, laptops, and tablets. It handles audio, text, image, and video. The initial rollout is underway.
Google AI Studio Updates: Google AI Studio now has a cleaner UI. It also includes integrated documentation and usage dashboards. Additionally, there are new apps and a new Generate Media tab.
Agentic Colab: Colab will soon be a new, fully agentic experience. It will help developers solve problems faster. It does so by taking action in notebooks and fixing errors.
SignGemma: SignGemma is an upcoming open model. It translates sign language into spoken language text. It works best at American Sign Language to English.
MedGemma: MedGemma is Google’s most capable open model for multimodal medical text and image comprehension, available now for health applications.
Stitch: A new AI-powered tool to generate high-quality UI designs and corresponding frontend code using natural language or image prompts.
Journeys in Android Studio: Journeys in Android Studio lets developers test critical user journeys using Gemini. They can describe test steps in natural language. This feature is available now.
Version Upgrade Agent in Android Studio: Coming soon to automatically update dependencies to the latest compatible version.
Google Pay API Updates: New updates across the Google Pay API are designed to create smoother, safer checkout experiences.
Flutter 3.32: Has new features designed to accelerate development and enhance apps.
Agent Development Kit Updates: Updates for the Agent Development Kit (ADK) were shared. Updates for the Vertex AI Agent Engine were shared. Updates for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol were shared.
Wear OS 6 Developer Preview: Introduces Material 3 Expressive, updated tools for Watch Faces, richer media controls, and Credential Manager.
Gemini Code Assist GA: Gemini Code Assist for individuals is generally available. Gemini Code Assist for GitHub is also generally available. Both are powered by Gemini 2.5.
Firebase AI Features: Firebase announced new features and tools. These tools help developers build AI-powered apps more easily. The updates include changes to Firebase Studio and Firebase AI Logic.
Google Cloud and NVIDIA Developer Community: A new dedicated forum was introduced.

Smarter Work with AI Enhancements

AI is being integrated into productivity tools to make work smarter and more efficient.

Smarter Gmail Smart Replies: Gmail will soon offer new, personalized smart replies. They will understand your context and tone. The replies will draw insights from your past emails and Drive files.
NotebookLM: Learn On the Go and Visually: Get more flexible Audio Overviews with NotebookLM, choosing your ideal length. Video Overviews are also coming soon, turning complex information into easy-to-understand narrated videos.
Turn Questions into Animated Videos: An exciting experiment called Sparkify is available. It lets you transform your questions into short animated videos using Google’s latest AI. Expect to see these capabilities in Google products later this year.
Improved Conversational AI Learning: The “Learn About” conversational AI experiment is also receiving enhancements for an even better learning experience.

FAQs about Google AI Updates

What are the main new features released for Google AI?

Significant upgrades to Gemini models (2.5 Pro and Flash) for smarter and faster AI.
New AI features in Google Search, including live interaction and task completion.
Enhanced capabilities for the Gemini app, like interactive quizzes and deeper research.
Powerful new generative AI tools for video (Veo 3), images (Imagen 4), and music.
Advanced AI assistants with Project Astra and innovations for smart glasses.
Improved real-time communication tools and new subscription options.

Which specific Gemini models are receiving updates and when will they be available?

Both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash are getting major updates.
Gemini 2.5 Flash is available now in the Gemini app, with wider availability for developers and enterprises in early June. Gemini 2.5 Pro will follow soon after.

How will Google Search be improved with these new AI updates?

AI Mode is rolling out to everyone in the U.S. with capabilities like Deep Search and Search Live (using your camera for real-time interaction).
New AI features will help with tasks (like booking tickets) and enhance shopping experiences, including virtual try-on.
The more conversational and summarized AI Overviews are also expanding rapidly.

What new subscription options are available for Google AI?

Google AI Ultra is a new premium plan with higher limits, access to Google’s most capable models, storage, and YouTube Premium.
Google AI Pro offers a suite of AI tools for $19.99/month.
College students in select countries can get a free upgrade of Gemini for a year.

What are the key new generative AI tools announced?

Veo 3 for generating videos with audio.
Imagen 4 for creating highly detailed and clear images.
Flow for AI-powered filmmaking.
Updates to Music AI Sandbox (powered by Lyria 2) for composing music.
SynthID Detector to help identify AI-generated content.