Google I/O, the largest conference of the Google program this year, is almost above us.
Planned for May 20-21 at Amphitheatre Shoreline in Mountain View, I/O will present products from the entire Google portfolio. Expect a lot of messages about Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube i-Of course-chatbot powered by AI Google, Gemini.
At the beginning of this week, Google hosted a separate event devoted to Android updates: The Android Show. The company has announced new ways to find lost Android phones and other items, additional functions at the device level for an advanced protection program, safety tools to protect against fraud and theft, and a new design language called Materia 3 Expressive.
Here's what else you can expect.
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Shoo-in For I/O is a new add-on (or several) to the flagship family of AI Google models. Leakage Over the past few weeks, he has suggested that the updated Ultra model is on the road, and Gemini Ultra is the best Google Gemini offer.
Thanks to this improved Gemini Ultra, the more expensive Gemini subscription can be.
Google offers a single premium level, Gemini Advanced (USD 20 per month) to unlock additional possibilities in its chatbot Gemini, which is powered by Gemini models. But Google may soon launch two new plans, Premium Plus and Premium Pro. It is not yet clear what benefits can be attached and how you can value these plans in relation to the advanced twin.
Google will almost certainly talk about Astra, his broad effort to build AI applications and “agents” for multimodal understanding in real time. Probably the agenda is also Project Mariner, “Agents” AI Google, who can navigate and take action on the Internet on behalf of the user. People for x spotted References for “using a computer” in the code of the AI Ai Ai Studio programmers that can refer to the mariner.
Everything else
Going to the official We/O schedule, Google will have a lot to discuss after Android Show and the main I/O addresses.
The schedule includes sessions dedicated to Chrome and Google Cloud, Google Play (The Android App Store), Android Development Tools and Gemma, a collection of “open” AI Google models.
Last year, Google presented several surprises about I/O, including a set of models refined to educational applications called Learnlm. The update of a viral notebook generating Google podcasts can be one of such surprises. CODE leaked It reveals the “Video Review” tool, which would probably create video summaries, most likely using the VEO 2 video model.
Updated: 15:19 Pacific: A list of new Android functions announced during the Android Show has been added.
