Google I/O 2025 was chock filled with bulletins. The issue is, Google is not all the time clear about which options are new, which have already been launched, and that are popping out sooner or later.
Whereas there are many options to look out for on the horizon, and a quantity nonetheless that you’ve got been ready to make use of for a while, there are model new options Google rolled out instantly after asserting them. Listed here are all of the Google I/O options you possibly can take a look at proper now—although some do require you to pay.
Imagen 4
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Google’s newest AI picture technology mannequin, Imagen 4, is on the market as we speak. Google was sparse on too many particular upgrades with this new mannequin, however says that Imagen is quicker, and now able to photographs as much as 2K decision with further facet ratios.
The change the corporate targeted most on is typography: Google says Imagen 4 can generate textual content with none of the standard AI errors you affiliate with AI picture turbines. On prime of that, the mannequin can incorporate totally different artwork kinds and design decisions, relying on the context of the immediate. You’ll be able to see that within the picture above, which makes use of a pixelated design for the textual content to match the 8-bit cartoon look.
You’ll be able to strive the most recent Imagen mannequin within the Gemini app, Whisk, Vertex AI, and thru Workspace apps like Slides, Vids, and Docs.
AI Mode
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AI Mode primarily turns Search right into a Gemini chat: It means that you can ask extra sophisticated and multi-step questions. Google then makes use of a “question fan-out” method to scan the net for related hyperlinks and generate an entire reply from these outcomes. I have not dived too deep into this characteristic, nevertheless it does largely work as marketed—I am simply unsure if that is all that rather more helpful than looking out via hyperlinks myself.
Google has been testing AI Mode since March, however now it is accessible to everybody within the U.S. If you wish to use it, you must see the brand new AI Mode choice on the suitable aspect of the search bar on Google’s homepage.
“Strive it on”
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Buying on-line is so far more handy than going in-person, in all methods however one: You’ll be able to’t strive on any of the garments forward of time. As soon as they arrive, you strive them on, and if they do not match, or you do not just like the look, again to the shop they go.
Google desires to get rid of (or, a minimum of, significantly reduce down on) this from occurring. Its new “strive it on” characteristic scans a picture you present of your self to get an understanding of your physique. Then, once you’re searching for brand new garments on-line, you possibly can select to “strive it on,” and Google’s AI will generate a picture of you carrying the article of clothes.
It is an attention-grabbing idea, but in addition a bit creepy. I personally don’t need Google analyzing photographs of myself in order that it may possibly extra precisely map several types of garments on me. Personally, I might slightly run the danger of constructing a return. However if you wish to give it a go, you possibly can strive the experimental characteristic in Google Labs as we speak.
Jules
Jules is Google’s “asynchronous, agentic coding assistant.” In line with Google, the assistant clones your codebase right into a safe Google Cloud digital machine, in order that it may possibly execute duties like writing exams, constructing options, producing audio changelogs, fixing bugs, and bumping dependency variations.
The assistant works within the background and would not use your code for coaching, which is a bit refreshing from an organization like Google. I am not a coder, so I can not say for certain whether or not Jules appears helpful. However in case you are a coder, you possibly can check it for your self. As of as we speak, Jules is on the market as a free public beta for anybody who desires to strive it out—although Google says utilization limits apply, and that they are going to cost for various Jules plans as soon as the “platform matures.”
Speech translation in Google Meet
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In the event you’re a Google Workspace subscriber, this subsequent characteristic is fairly nice. As proven off throughout the I/O keynote, Google Meet now has stay speech translation. This is the way it works: To illustrate you are speaking to somebody on a Google Meet name who speaks Spanish, however you solely converse English. You may hear the opposite caller converse in Spanish for a second or two, earlier than an AI voice dubs over them with the interpretation in English. They’re going to obtain the alternative on their finish after you begin talking.
Google is engaged on including extra languages within the coming weeks.
Google AI Extremely subscription
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There is a new subscription on the town, although it isn’t for the faint of coronary heart. Google introduced a brand new “AI Extremely” subscription at I/O yesterday, that prices a whopping $250 monthly.
That extraordinary price ticket comes with some main AI options: You get entry to the very best limits for all of Google’s AI fashions, together with Gemini 2.5 Deep Suppose, Veo 3, and Mission Mariner. It additionally comes with 30TB of cloud storage, and, amusingly, a YouTube Premium subscription.
What do you assume thus far?
You actually need to be a giant believer in AI to drop upwards of $3,000 a 12 months on this subscription. When you’ve got a budding curiosity for AI, maybe Google’s “AI Professional” plan is extra your velocity—that is the brand new identify for Google’s AI Premium subscription, and comes with the identical perks, plus now entry to Circulation (which I am going to cowl under).
Veo
Veo 3 is Google’s newest AI video mannequin. In contrast to Imagen 4, nevertheless, it is solely accessible to AI Extremely subscribers. In the event you’re not comfy with spending $250 a month on Google’s companies, you will have to stay with Veo 2.
Google says Veo 3 is healthier at real-world physics than Veo 2 and might deal with life like lip-syncing. You’ll be able to see that within the clip above, which reveals an “previous sailor” reciting a poem. His lips do certainly match the speech, and the video is crisp with components of realism. I personally do not assume it seems “actual,” and it nonetheless has loads of tells that it is an AI video, however there is no doubt we’re coming into some harmful waters with AI video.
AI Professional subscribers with entry to Veo 2 have some new video mannequin capabilities, as effectively, nevertheless. You now have digital camera controls to dictate the way you need photographs to look; choices for adjusting the facet ratio of the clip; instruments so as to add or take away objects from a scene; and controls to “outpaint,” or so as to add on to the scene of a clip.
Circulation
Google did not simply improve its AI video mannequin: It additionally launched an AI video editor, known as Circulation.
Circulation helps you to generate movies utilizing Veo 2 and Veo 3, nevertheless it additionally helps you to reduce collectively these clips on a timeline and management the digital camera actions of your clips. You should use Imagen to generate a component you wish to add to a scene, then ask Veo to generate a clip with that ingredient in it.
I am certain AI movie fanatics are going to like this, however I stay skeptical. I may see this being a great tool for story boarding concepts, however for creating actual content material? I do know I do not wish to watch full reveals or films generated by AI. Perhaps the odd Instagram video will get a chuckle out of me, however I do not assume Reels are Google’s finish aim right here.
Circulation is on the market for each AI Professional and AI Extremely subscribers. When you’ve got AI Professional, you possibly can entry Veo 2, however AI Extremely subscribers can select between Veo 2 and Veo 3.
Gemini in Chrome
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AI Professional and AI Extremely subscribers now have entry to Gemini in Google Chrome, which seems within the toolbar of your browser window. You’ll be able to ask the assistant to summarize an online web page, in addition to inquire about components of that net web page. There are plans for agentic options sooner or later, so Gemini may take a look at web sites for you, however, for now, you are actually restricted to 2 features.
