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Everything Google announced at I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Android XR, & more

Abner Li | May 19 2026 - 10:45 am PT

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At I/O 2026, Google announced a tidal wave of new Gemini-powered features across its biggest products and services that will soon be available. We’ve compiled all the consumer-facing announcements and notable developer developments below.

Table of contents<br>Gemini models<br>Gemini app<br>Google AI plans<br>Google Search<br>Shopping<br>Google Workspace<br>YouTube<br>Android XR<br>Android Halo

Gemini models

Gemini 3.5 Flash combines frontier intelligence with the ability to perform agentic tasks. It surpasses 3.1 Pro in coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks, with the cost and speed of the Flash series at 4x faster than other frontier models in terms of output tokens per second.

Rolling out starting today in the Gemini app, Search, Antigravity 2.0, and Gemini API.

Gemini 3.5 Pro is currently in testing and will be available next month.

Gemini Omni is a new series of models that combines Gemini’s reasoning capabilities with creation. Gemini Omni Flash today accepts image, audio, video, and text input and outputs video grounded in real-world knowledge and that can be easily edited.

Rolling out to AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra starting in the Gemini app, Google Flow, YouTube Shorts

Google Flow and Flow Music are now available as mobile apps: "Flow app is available on Android in beta (iOS coming soon), and the Flow Music app is available now on iOS (Android coming soon)."

SynthID verification/detection expanding beyond the Gemini app to Search and Chrome.

C2PA Content Credentials support lets you check if content is an unaltered original from a camera or if it has been modified by tools.

Gemini app

Neural Expressive is the Gemini’s app new design language with fluid animations, vibrant colors, haptic feedback, and new typography.

The Gemini app now has a pill-shaped prompt box with a single ‘plus’ menu at the left that incorporates Tools and opens a bottom sheet (on mobile). The navigation drawer is now a fullscreen interface.

Gemini Live no longer opens a fullscreen interface for an inline experience where you don’t have to switch between modes.

Gemini will design responses that show the most important information at the top and in bold. You’ll also see inline images, narrated videos, timelines, and interactive visualizations.

Rolling out now to Android, iOS, and the web.

Gemini Spark is “your personal agent” that takes actions on your behalf to help "navigate your digital life."

"Spark represents a big shift for Gemini, transforming it from an assistant that can answer your questions into an active partner that does real work on your behalf and under your direction."

It integrates with Gmail, Docs, and other Google Workspace apps before expanding to other third-party tools via MCP over the summer.

Gemini Spark will be available next week to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US.

Daily Brief is a personalized digest of the day ahead. Sifting through your Gmail, Calendar, and Tasks, it prioritizes and organizes what you need to do, while suggesting next steps.

Rolling out to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra starting today in the US.

Google AI plans

The Gemini app is “moving from daily prompt limits to a ‘compute-used’ model ” that factors the complexity of your prompt, features you use, and length of your chat.

Limits “refresh every five hours until you reach your weekly limit.”

Google says this is a “better way to allocate limits, because a simple text prompt uses far less compute than a complex video or coding prompt.”

Google AI Ultra now starts at $100 per month with 5x higher Gemini app usage limits than AI Pro.

The previous $250 plan is now $200 with the “exact same capabilities” as before.

Google Search

AI Mode is now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash .

A new intelligent Search box expands the more you type in a reflection of how people have longer and more conversational queries.

AI-powered query suggestions go beyond autocomplete by anticipating your intent.

New information agents work in the background 24/7 to keep you updated on "whatever matters most to you."

"Your agent will intelligently look across everything on the web, like blogs, news sites and social posts, plus our freshest data, such as real-time info on finance, shopping and sports, to monitor for changes related to your specific question."

Available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.

Google Search will soon be able to build custom dashboards and trackers for continuous tasks. These “mini apps for your own specific tasks” will be available in the coming months for AI Pro and Ultra in the US.

Shopping

Universal Cart is a Gemini-powered shopping cart and agentic hub for shopping in the...