Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer league of the year, is astir upon us.

Scheduled for May 20 to 21 astatine the Shoreline Amphitheatre successful Mountain View, I/O volition showcase merchandise announcements from crossed Google’s portfolio. Expect plentifulness of quality relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of people — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini.

Here’s what to expect.

Gemini and AI

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AI is the tech du jour, and Google, similar its rivals, has been investing heavy successful it.

A shoo-in for I/O is simply a caller summation (or several) to Google’s flagship Gemini household of AI models. Leaks implicit the past fewer weeks suggest that an updated Gemini Ultra exemplary is connected the way, Gemini Ultra being Google’s top-of-the-line Gemini offering.

With this upgraded Gemini Ultra whitethorn travel a pricier Gemini subscription.

Google offers a azygous premium tier, Gemini Advanced ($20 per month), to unlock further capabilities successful its Gemini chatbot, which is powered by the company’s Gemini models. But Google whitethorn soon motorboat 2 caller plans, Premium Plus and Premium Pro. It’s not yet wide what benefits mightiness beryllium attached and however these plans mightiness beryllium priced comparative to Gemini Advanced.

Google volition astir surely speech astir Astra, its wide-ranging effort to physique AI apps and “agents” for real-time, multimodal understanding. Also astir apt connected the docket is Project Mariner, Google’s AI “agents” that tin navigate and instrumentality enactment crossed the web connected a user’s behalf. Folks connected X spotted references to “Computer Use” successful the codification for Google’s AI Studio developer platform, which could good pertain to Mariner.

Android 16

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For the archetypal clip this year, Google is hosting a abstracted lawsuit dedicated to Android updates: The Android Show. It’ll instrumentality spot connected Tuesday, astir a week up of I/O.

The latest mentation of Android, Android 16, volition beryllium the focus. Android 16 is expected to bring with it improved notifications and an wholly caller plan language, Material 3 Expressive. In a leaked blog post, Google describes Material 3 Expressive arsenic a top-to-bottom overhaul, with greater responsiveness and “action elements” that pop.

Android 16 is mostly a quality-of-life update, judging by reports. It’ll present enactment for Auracast, which should marque it easier to power betwixt Bluetooth devices. Also successful tow are lock surface widgets and a range of caller accessibility features.

Google whitethorn besides spotlight capabilities successful the latest versions of Android XR, its mixed world operating system, and Wear OS, the company’s bundle for wearables.

Everything else

Going by the authoritative I/O schedule, Google volition person plentifulness to sermon pursuing The Android Show and I/O keynote addresses.

The docket lists sessions dedicated to Chrome and Google Cloud, Google Play (the Android app store), Android improvement tools, and Gemma, Google’s postulation of “open” AI models.

Last year, Google unveiled a fewer AI-themed surprises astatine I/O, including a acceptable of models fine-tuned for acquisition applications called LearnLM. An upgrade to Google’s viral podcast-generating NotebookLM could beryllium 1 specified surprise. Leaked code reveals a “Video Overviews” instrumentality that presumably would make video summaries, astir apt leveraging Google’s Veo 2 video-generating model.