Google I/O is where Google previews its plans for Gemini, Android, and beyond. At I/O 2025, we’re expecting a heavy focus on AI, as Google integrates Gemini across its ecosystem of apps and devices. The event kicks off on May 20th with a keynote at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.
From Smart Reply to Smart Compose to “Help me write” — that’s the new branding for Gmail’s AI-powered writing assistant, as announced at I/O. It looks like they’ll be more options to compose messages and tweak the tone but it’s not clear who’ll have access. Follow our liveblog for more details here.
We’re expecting a barrage of news, from Pixel devices to AI announcements. If you want up to the second updates, you can follow along with our live blog. Our team is seated at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and reporting on... a duck with lips.
Ahead of the big Google I/O keynote later today, we have this segment of The Vergecast, as Nilay, David, and Alex discuss some of the issues facing the tech giant (like setting a YouTube promo ad for the Pixel Fold to premiere at the correct time) and how it might address them with AI news revealed during today’s event.
Update: And now the full episode is available.
Ahead of the I/O keynote speech later today, Google shared this I/O Flip card game as an example of what its tools are capable of, using generative AI tools for the art and descriptions that say things like “Dash the Wizard lives in a castle with his pet dragon. He loves to cast spells and make people laugh.”
Images were pre-generated using two technologies pioneered out of Google Research: Muse, a text-to-image AI model from the Imagen family of models, and DreamBooth,
Card descriptions were prototyped in MakerSuite and pre-generated using the PaLM API which accesses Google’s large language models.
Making ambient computing happen is forcing Google to change how it does everything
