Google I/O 2024 wrap: Google brings Gemini AI to Search, Android, and more

At its I/O 2024 Keynote, Google announced new AI models, tools, and deeper AI integration into its platforms such as Search and Android

12:23 AM

Keynote ends

Sundar Pichai wraps-up the Keynote event

12:10 AM

Pali Gemma

• Google announces new vision language open model: Pali Gemma
• Gemma 2 coming in June

12:03 AM

Multimodality in Gemini Nano

Gemini Nano with multimodal capabilities is coming to Pixel devices later this year
Works on-device
Spam call detection
Understands what's on the display

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11:58 PM

AI on Android

AI integration
AI powered Search: Solve mathematical problems using Circle to Search
Gemini AI assistant: New design, YouTube Video understanding, Doccument summarisation

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11:44 PM

Gemini app

Gemini Live: Converstaional and live video understanding capability
Custom AI chatbot "Gems"
Trip planing capability with Gemini Advance
Bigger context window
2M tokens long context window later this year with Gemini Advance

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11:38 PM

Gemini AI Teammate

• AI-assistant for Workspace apps
• Has its own Google Account
• Can work in group spaces

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11:32 PM

Gemini for Workspace

Gemini powered side-panel in Workspace apps

Google Meet: Expanded language support

Gmail mobile app: New mobile card, Gemini 1.5 Pro powered summarising, Smart replies

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11:16 PM

Google Search with generative AI

• Powered by custom Gemini model 
• AI Overviews in Search
• Multi-step reasoning: Breaks bigger questions for better understanding
• Planning in Search: Creates multi-day plans in Search results
• AI-organised Search result page
• Video Search feature coming later this year

11:11 PM

Google Trillium

• New TPU
• Available to cloud customers later this year
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11:06 PM

Google Veo

• Generative Video model
• 1080p videos from texts, images and video prompts
• Available in VideoFX for testing

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11:04 PM

Google Generative Media

Imagine 3: Google's latest image generation model
Remembers smaller details from user's prompt
Will be soon available to Enterprise customers and developers in Vertex AI

Music AI sandbox: AI-powered music generator
Made in colaboration with YouTube

10:58 PM

Google Project Astra

Google says it is an universal AI agent
Multimodal
Understands real-time data
Spatial understanding
Will come to Gemini products later this year

10:55 PM

Google launches Gemini 1.5 Flash

• • Small scale
  • 1M tokens
  • Available in AI Studio

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10:49 PM

Multimodal AI model

Gemini 1.5 Pro is better at understanding context of the input  and offers personalised responses

10:46 PM

Google Workspaces

Gmail: With Gemini, summarise email from particular sender pointers

Google Meet: Provides highlights 

Gemini 1.5 Pro available in WorkSpace labs

10:43 PM

Gemini 1.5 Pro announced

• Gemini 1.5 Pro model will be available in Gemini Advance for developers
• Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available in Workspace Labs with deeper integration into Workspce apps
• Long context: 2million

10:41 PM

Google Photos: Ask Photos with Gemini

6bn photos and videos uploaded everyday

AI-powered voice search to find photos and video

10:40 PM

Ask Photos feature announced

Gemini will be integrated into Google Photos and produce outputs based on the information from within the gallery. Ask Photos feature to roll out this summer.

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10:36 PM

Deeper Gemini AI integration

Pichai says Google will announce new AI features for Google services such as Workspace, Search, and more

10:32 PM

Google I/O Keynote event kicks off

Sundar Pichai kicks off keynote to Google's annual developers conference.

10:07 PM

Google I/O: Workspace apps

While Google already announced a slew of new tools and features to its Workspace apps at the Google Cloud Next 2024 event last month, services such as Gmail, Docs, Drive and more could be in for more feature updates.

9:45 PM

Google I/O: Gemini AI could gain memory

Gemini AI could get a “Memory” feature, similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT. This will allow the AI-powered chatbot to remember specific details about the user for it to offer more personalised responses. Users would reportedly be able to ask the chatbot to remember specific information for future conversations.

9:34 PM

Google I/O 2024: Search

Search Generative Experience (SGE), Google’s generative AI-powered Search, is expected to be made available more widely. It was reported last month that Google is planning to make the generative AI search experience exclusive to paid-tier. Google’s traditional search service would remain free to use, however, it is still likely to get some AI treatment. This could include generative AI-powered search suggestions and more.

9:18 PM

Google I/O 2024: AI assistant

Google could debut an entirely new version of its digital assistant, which would reportedly be called “Pixie”. This Gemini AI-powered assistant will likely be exclusive to Google’s Pixel devices and is expected to gain multimodal capabilities such as processing a combination of text, voice, and pictures as input.

8:55 PM

Nothing on X

8:48 PM

Google I/O 2024: AI for smartphones

Google is expected to focus on wider AI integration into smartphones with Android 15 OS, meaning more generative AI features for Google’s apps. It was earlier reported that Google has been working on ways to integrate AI into Google Maps to offer a more personalised view for suggesting locations based on user input and preference. The tech giant could announce more such features and tools onto other Google apps. It is also likely that some of these features will work entirely on-device, utilising Google’s Gemma AI model, the company’s small scaled model.

8:22 PM

Google I/O 2024: Android 15

Google has confirmed that it would be unveiling the Android 15 operating system for smartphones at the developers conference. The company has already detailed some of the upcoming features through the beta releases, which are available for select users and for developers to test. Some of these features include satellite connectivity support for messaging apps, smoother tap-to-pay experience on Android smartphones, screen record detection for privacy, and more app support for cover screens on foldable smartphones.

8:05 PM

Google I/O 2024: Multimodal AI

In a run-up to the event, Google has posted a video on its official handle on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), previewing a new prototype of its Gemini AI with multimodal conversational capabilities. The video shows Gemini on a Pixel smartphone that is prompted with a live video and speech. The AI is asked about what is happening in the video and the chatbot replies with an analysis of the live feed in real time.

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