Everything Google announced at I/O 2026: Gemini, Android, more
Everything Google announced at I/O 2026: Gemini, Android, more
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-io-2026-news/
Publish Date: 2026-05-19 13:45:00
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At I/O 2026, Google announced a tidal wave of new Gemini-powered features across its biggest products and services that will soon be available. We’ve compiled all the consumer-facing announcements and notable developer developments below.
Gemini models
- Gemini 3.5 Flash combines frontier intelligence with the ability to perform agentic tasks. It surpasses 3.1 Pro in coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks, with the cost and speed of the Flash series at 4x faster than other frontier models in terms of output tokens per second.
- Rolling out starting today in the Gemini app, Search, Antigravity 2.0, and Gemini API.
- Gemini 3.5 Pro is currently in testing and will be available next month.
- Gemini Omni is a new series of models that combines Gemini’s reasoning capabilities with creation. Gemini Omni Flash today accepts image, audio, video, and text input and outputs video grounded in real-world knowledge and that can be easily edited.
- Rolling out to AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra starting in the Gemini app, Google Flow, YouTube Shorts
- Google Flow and Flow Music are now available as mobile apps: “Flow app is available on Android in beta (iOS coming soon), and the Flow Music app is available now on iOS (Android coming soon).”
- SynthID verification/detection expanding beyond the Gemini app to Search and Chrome.
- C2PA Content Credentials support lets you check if content is an unaltered original from a camera or if it has been modified by tools.
Gemini app
- Neural Expressive is the Gemini’s app new design language with fluid animations, vibrant colors, haptic feedback, and new typography.
- The Gemini app now has a pill-shaped prompt box with a single ‘plus’ menu at the left that incorporates Tools and opens a bottom sheet (on mobile). The navigation drawer is now a fullscreen interface.
- Gemini Live no longer opens a fullscreen interface for an inline experience where you don’t…
