Google I/O 2025 Keynote live blog

I/O 2025 kicks off today as Google’s biggest event of the year to showcase what’s new for end users and developers. Gemini and AI will undoubtedly be the big focus. Join us as we live blog the two-hour keynote.

Everything Google announced at I/O 2025: Gemini, Search, Android, and more

How to watch Google I/O 2025

I/O 2025 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California starts with a two-hour keynote led by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. GMT. There’s a live audience for this two-day conference, and you can stream the event live on YouTube.

Live Blog (Updates in reverse chronological order…)

• Android XR glasses get I/O 2025 demo, Google partnering with Samsung & Warby Parker
• Flow is Google’s new AI video editing suite powered by Imagen 4 and Veo 3
• Gemini (Live) coming to Google Chrome for Mac and Windows 

• Gemini app releases 2.5 Flash & Live camera on iPhone, 2.5 Pro Deep Think mode coming
• AI Mode is getting Deep Search for dozens or hundreds of searches
• AI Mode getting personalized suggestions from your past searches and Gmail. This is called personal context and coming this summer
• AI Mode is rolling out to all users in the US starting today
• Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 rolling out with Material 3 Expressive redesign
• Project Astra capabilities coming to Google apps and form factors, like XR glasses

• Google shows Project Astra controlling an Android phone
• Personal, proactive, and powerful is the goal for the Gemini app
• Google’s future vision is to make a “universal AI assistant.” Ultimate vision for the Gemini app
• Google wants Gemini 2.5 Pro to be a “world model” that can simulate the world to take action in it
• Google announces a Gemini 2.5 Pro “Deep Think” mode for advanced reasoning. Coming soon
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite coming soon
• Jules for coders is now in public beta: jules.google
• Gemini 2.5 Flash rolling out today to the Gemini app, GA for devs in June
• DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis takes the stage
• Gmail is getting personalized smart replies, coming this summer
• Gemini is getting an Agent Mode

• Project Mariner is an example of computer use, and need for agents
• Gemini Live camera and screen sharing is coming to iOS
• Google Meet speech translation is like having a human interpreter on the call
• Project Starline 3D video conferencing is now called “Google Beam“

• “Research becomes reality” is a theme
• Pichai: Google Search is bringing gen AI to more people than any product in the world
• Stat: Gemini app has 400+ million monthly active users
• Google is summarizing Gemini 2.5 progress and developer adoption
• Pichai notes how Google usually is quiet before I/O. But in the Gemini era, Google is “shipping at [a] relentless pace.”
• CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage (to You Get What You Give)
• The keynote has started with an intro video (generated by Veo)
• The livestream is now, well, live with a music pre-show.

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