Google I/O Event 2026 LIVE Updates: Google debuts new Omni world model, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini Spark, and more

Google I/O Event 2026 LIVE Updates: Here's everything Google announced at its biggest AI event of the year, including Gemini Omni, Gemini Spark, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0, and more.

Google I/O Event 2026 LIVE Updates: Google on Tuesday, May 19, kicked off its annual developer conference with a keynote presentation packed with AI-related announcements, ranging from the debut of its Omni world model to Antigravity 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and more.

“Gemini models are a big reason more people are using more of our products,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said onstage at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, United States. He was also joined by Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis who said AI that can understand and simulate the world is a crucial aspect of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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One of the new products that stood out was Gemini Spark, Google’s new personal AI agent that runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud, and is powered by Gemini 3.5 and the Google Antigravity harness. This allows it to perform long-running tasks easily in the background. Spark will be integrated with tools, starting with Google’s own, and in the coming weeks, with third-party tools through MCP.

Notably, Google also announced its audio smart glasses that enables users to talk to Gemini, listen to music, record videos, take calls, and more. The intelligent eyewear has been crafted in partnership with Samsung as well as eye-wear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. They are expected to be available for sale later this year.

If you didn’t catch the event live, you can check out everything you missed in the updates below.

Live Updates
May 20, 2026 12:41 AM IST
And that's a wrap

There was a lot announced today, with most of them being AI-related. Stay tuned to read everything that was announced at Google I/O 2026 and other product-specific coverage.

Tomorrow's I/O agenda is packed as well, with sessions covering Google’s Gemma family of open AI models, Android development tools, Flutter, Web UI, and more.

May 20, 2026 12:15 AM IST
Google's intelligent eyewear will be available this fall

May 20, 2026 12:10 AM IST
First look at Google's intelligent eyewear

May 20, 2026 12:06 AM IST
Google debuts new audio glasses

Last year, Google gave us a glimpse of its Android XR-powered display glasses with in-lens display. This year, Google has announced its first audio glasses arriving this fall. You can speak to Gemini, listen to music, making calls, taking photos, etc., all without reaching into your pocket.

The audio glasses have been made in partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, along with Samsung. They are compatible with both Android and iOS devices.

May 20, 2026 12:03 AM IST
Overview of new Google Flow features

May 20, 2026 12:00 AM IST
New agent in Google Flow filmmaking tool

The AI agent can take multiple actions in Flow, such as finding the best angle in an image so that one image becomes 16 unique videos. It can also handle large-scale edits such as transforming all scenes from morning to night.

Flow Tools lets users vibe-code any tools they can think of for layering text, etc. Flow Music lets users create AI-generated songs. It can also be used to remix songs and change music styles.

All Google Flow features are available starting today for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.

May 19, 2026 11:58 PM IST
New Google Pics image-editing tool

Google introduces a new image-editing tool called Pics, along with updates to its Stitch web design tool. Users can export their design or launch the website with just a few clicks. These updates are rolling out today globally.

May 19, 2026 11:52 PM IST
Overview of Gemini-related announcements

May 19, 2026 11:48 PM IST
Gemini Spark will first roll out to trusted testers

May 19, 2026 11:47 PM IST
New Daily Briefs feature

"It's not just summarizing the data, though; it's organizing my topic. It's even suggesting the next step, and with this travel info, I can just take the next step right in line. All of it is super concise in this morning digest," says Josh Woodward.

Daily Briefs is rolling out today for Google AI Plus Pro and Ultra subscribers, starting in the US.

May 19, 2026 11:44 PM IST
Gemini's 'neural expressive' design language

It is available globally today in Android, iOS, and the web.

May 19, 2026 11:42 PM IST
Gemini app gets a design makeover

May 19, 2026 11:39 PM IST
Overview of Google Search announcements

May 19, 2026 11:38 PM IST
Google introduces new Universal Cart

It works across merchants and services. You will be able to add things to your cart when you're browsing, searching, chatting with Gemini, watching YouTube, or even reading your Gmail. The moment you add a product, your cart goes to work for you in the background.

It also finds deals, looks at price drops, gives you insights on the price history, and alerts you when something comes back in stock. It all runs on our Gemini models, so your cart gets even smarter as the models improve.

Universal Cart can also find hidden savings for you because it's built on Google's wallet. Google is rolling out the Universal Cart in the US across Search and the Gemini app this summer, with YouTube and Gmail to follow.

May 19, 2026 11:35 PM IST
Shopping features on Google Search

- Shopping graph: It is the world's most comprehensive catalog of products. It now has over 60 billion listings, and they're constantly updated. Combined with advanced Gemini models, and you get entirely new ways to shop, says Google.

-Universal Commerce Protocol: It's an open source standard that allows all the key players to work across the entire shopping journey. That means it makes everything from product research to checkout to shipment tracking totally seamless. UCP partners include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Stripe.

This year, Google is bringing UCP to even more verticals like hotels and local food delivery providers, and to YouTube and Google products. It is also being expanded to Canada, Australia, and the UK in the coming months.

-Agent payments protocol (AP2): It's designed so your AI agent can securely make payments on your behalf, but always under your control. Users can set strict guardrails, and tell the agent the specific branch of products that they want and how much they want to spend. It automatically makes the purchase if the criteria are met.

It uses privacy-preserving technology to keep user data safe, and with tamper-proof digital mandates it ensures the agent is always active on your behalf and gives you a permanent digital paper trail. If you ever need to make a return, you and the merchant are looking at the same record, says Google. AP2 is coming to Gemini Spark soon.

May 19, 2026 11:28 PM IST
Weekend Planner using new Search Pro

Search Pro can proactively offer to build tools like a personalised weekend planner directly from Search, generating custom UI, interactive visuals, and fully functional experiences from scratch. With integrated coding capabilities, Search can build these experiences in real time.

For today’s demo, Google showcases its real-time reasoning steps and live code generation unfold, showing how Search evaluates not only what information to retrieve, but also the best components and formats to present it.

By securely connecting services like Gmail, Photos, and Calendar, Search can tap into personal context to make suggestions more relevant and useful. This allows it to reference details such as Gmail receipts, calendar events, travel plans, and more to deliver deeply personalised results.

May 19, 2026 11:24 PM IST
Preview of 3D dynamic visuals within Search

May 19, 2026 11:23 PM IST
Agentic coding capabilities in Search

"By bringing Antigravity and the agentic coding capabilities of Gemini 3.5 Flash directly into Search, we’re enabling Search to build the ideal format for every query in real time, fully customized to the question being asked. This means dynamic layouts, interactive widgets, and even complete experiences generated on the fly, all designed specifically for each user and their intent," says Google.

May 19, 2026 11:21 PM IST
New information agents in Search

May 19, 2026 11:18 PM IST
New intelligent search box in Search

"This goes beyond auto complete. It offers nuances that you might not have even thought to add, helping you take the exact question on your mind and ask it with ease. This new search box puts our most powerful AI tools right at your fingertips. You can ask across modalities: text, images, files, videos, and search reasons across them all," says Liz Reid.

AI Mode has also been upgraded with Gemini 3.5.

May 19, 2026 11:13 PM IST
Gemini 3.5 models x Antigravity

"This is the first experience you're seeing, made possible by 3.5 models in Antigravity. This combination gives us new ways to accelerate our mission and to transform our products to be radically more helpful. I can't wait to see how we will transform Spark, our ultimate moonshot. This past year has proven just how much innovation is possible right at the heart of our information mission," Pichai says.

May 19, 2026 11:08 PM IST
Google demoes Gemini Spark live

Gemini Spark will operate directly within Chrome down the line.

May 19, 2026 11:07 PM IST
Gemini Spark, new personal AI agent

Gemini Spark is a personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction. It runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud, and it's 24/7.

"Yes, you can close your laptop," remarks Pichai. It's powered by Gemini 3.5 and the Google antigravity harness, which allows it to perform long-running tasks easily in the background. Spark will integrate with tools, starting with Google's own, and in the coming weeks with third-party tools through MCP.

May 19, 2026 11:05 PM IST
Gemini 3.5 Flash rolls out today

Gemini 3.5 Flash is available for everyone today across Google's products and APIs, with 3.5 Flash Pro coming next month.

May 19, 2026 11:02 PM IST
Live demo of Antigravity 2.0

May 19, 2026 11:02 PM IST
New updates to Antigravity

Antigravity is expanding its suite of agentic capabilities, services, integrations and product features. It is launching the full CLI experience and anti-gravity SDK native voice support with Gemini Audio Models and integrations with many services and platforms like Android, Firebase and Google AI Studio.

Antigravity 2.0 includes a new stand alone desktop application that delivers a truly agent-optimised experience. The new Antigravity is unabashedly Agent First, says Varun Mohan.

May 19, 2026 10:58 PM IST
Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash

3.5 Flash combines front-end intelligence and action. When compared to 3.1 Pro, Flash is better across the board, almost all benchmarks, says Google.

"3.5 Flash is a very capable model at the frontier and comparable to the best models, but much much faster, which is why when you look at the intelligence vs output speed, it's in a whole league of its own in the top right quarter. When looking at output tokens per second, it's 4x faster than other frontier models and it's incredibly light to use," says Pichai.

Internally, Google says 3.5 Flash has been a game-changer. "We've been using 3.5 Flash with the re-imagined version of our agent-first development platform, anti-gravity, and it's dramatically accelerated how we work.

Gemini 3.5 Flash will first roll out within Google's Antigravity tool.

May 19, 2026 10:54 PM IST
OpenAI, Nvidia to adopt Google's Synth ID

May 19, 2026 10:54 PM IST
New content credentials verification

"Invisible to the naked eye since launch, Synth ID has now been enabled on over 100 billion images and videos, along with 60,000 years of audio assets. Millions of people are using our Synth ID detector in the Gemini app to verify AI-generated content. We are now going a step further and adding content credentials verification across products."

"This will show you if the origin of the content was AI or a camera, and if it's being edited with generated tools. In this example, Gemini can tell this photo was captured with the Pixel camera and then edited with Google Photos. We are expanding both Synth ID and content credentials verification to Search and Chrome."

May 19, 2026 10:50 PM IST
First look at what Google's new 'world model' Omni can do

May 19, 2026 10:49 PM IST
Google introduces new world model 'Omni'

"Omni is a step change in simulating things like kinetic energy and gravity. Previous systems would have found these concepts difficult. Gemini's world knowledge and reasoning really shine in Omni. It can translate complex ideas into highly accurate videos. So, for example, you can give it a simple prompt like "Make a clay-mation explainer of protein folding"" says Hassabis

May 19, 2026 10:48 PM IST
Demis Hassabis takes the stage

"Over the past year, AI capabilities have leaped forward. We now have agents that can plan and act on our behalf, and artificial general intelligence is just a few years away. Today I'm excited to share the progress we've made towards building AGI. Last year I outlined our vision of extending Gemini's incredible multimodal capabilities to become a world model. AI that can understand and simulate the world. This is a crucial aspect of achieving AGI and will be important for everything from building AI systems to training robots," says Demis Hassabis.

May 19, 2026 10:45 PM IST
'TPU chips improve speed every step of the way': Pichai

TPU 8i is designed for inference. It dramatically improves speed at every step because, if we have learnt anything in 27 days of working on search, it's that latency matters, says Pichai.

May 19, 2026 10:42 PM IST
Alphabet's capex over the last 4 years

May 19, 2026 10:40 PM IST
Google introduces Docs Live

To create a doc with Gemini before, you'd have to type a query. With DocsLive, you can just verbally break down whatever is on your mind and let Gemini do the rest, says Pichai.

Docs Live is rolling out for Google Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer, and the same voice capabilities will come to Gmail and Google Keep then too.

May 19, 2026 10:38 PM IST
'Gemini models big reason people are using our products': Pichai

"Today, more than 50 billion images have been generated with our Nano Banana models. It was a breakout star this past year. I know you all have been having a lot of fun with it. Beyond the Gemini app, we are also having much more natural conversations with Gemini directly inside many of our products. Recently, Maps got its biggest upgrade in a decade, including a new feature called Ask Maps."

May 19, 2026 10:35 PM IST
Sundar Pichai takes the stage at I/O 2026

"It's been ten years since we pivoted the company to be AI-first. We knew how profound AI would be to advancing our mission and improving people's lives at scale. This is why we are taking a differentiated full-stack approach to AI innovation from our custom silicon to our world-class research and models to our products and platforms that reach billions of people. This approach enables us to iterate and innovate faster and is lighting up every part of the company. What's really incredible is how people are using our AI."

May 19, 2026 10:03 PM IST
Sundar Pichai posts group selfie minutes ahead of Google I/O 2026

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/2056751072421851392

May 19, 2026 09:59 PM IST
Demis Hassabis was an early Anthropic investor: Report

A day prior to Google I/O 2026, it turns out that the man leading the tech giant's AI efforts had reportedly invested in rival AI company Anthropic. Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis made an angel investment in Anthropic before the company emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing AI startups, according to a report by Financial Times.

The Nobel laureate's position in the Claude-maker was previously undisclosed and highlights his “growing influence across the AI industry," as per the publication.

In an unrelated (but just as surprising) update, famed AI researcher and one of the cofounders of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy, has announced that he has joined Anthropic.

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312

May 19, 2026 09:45 PM IST
Last chance to get predictions in...

We are less than one hour away from Sundar Pichai taking the stage to begin the keynote presentation at Google I/O 2026.

May 19, 2026 09:43 PM IST
Google exec teases new Gemini model

https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2056528490011476100

May 19, 2026 04:01 PM IST
What is Gemini Intelligence?

At The Android Show a few weeks ago, Google introduced Gemini Intelligence, an AI agent-based operating layer designed to read a user’s screen, move across apps, and autonomously complete tasks that would otherwise require users to jump between multiple platforms.

It is being rolled out first in Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 devices.

With Gemini Intelligence, Google is moving beyond traditional chatbot-style assistants toward autonomous AI agents. While AI agents are not new, their adoption is still in the nascent stages. Gemini Intelligence could potentially mark a turning point for the mainstream adoption of AI agents, especially in India where over 97 per cent of all smartphones are powered by Android. Read more here.

May 19, 2026 03:55 PM IST
Google expands AI educator series to India

On I/O day, Google also announced a push to bring AI literacy, tools, and training across India’s education ecosystem.

In line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the company said it will be providing mobile-first training customised to the needs of Indian educators in schools and higher education institutions as part of its AI Educator Series.

As part of a three-year partnership with UNICEF, Google is further looking to “integrate AI tools like Gemini and ReadAlong to help improve learning outcomes in areas like literacy and numeracy.”

May 19, 2026 03:14 PM IST
Will we see the Android XR glasses today?

While I/O is primarily a software-focused event, Google is widely expected to give us a sneak peek of its smart glasses powered by Android XR along with a possible sale date.

The company has been building out its Android XR platform, once codenamed Project Moohan, which will be used to power smart glasses from companies like Samsung, Xreal, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker.

May 19, 2026 02:34 PM IST
Google, Blackstone to create new AI company

A day ahead of I/O, Google and Blackstone, the world’s ⁠largest ​alternative asset manager, made a surprise announcement. Both companies have said that they will form an AI cloud business venture aimed at capitalising on an insatiable demand for AI computing services.

Notably, the new venture will provide data centre capacity along ​with ​Google’s custom AI chips, known as ⁠Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, through a compute-as-a-service model.

Blackstone said it is putting up an initial $5 billion in equity to help bring 500 megawatts of data centre capacity online by 2027, with further expansion planned over time, as per a report by Reuters.

May 19, 2026 01:24 PM IST
'On our way to I/O 2026': Sundar Pichai

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/2056524502746747048

May 19, 2026 01:19 PM IST
Recapping The Android Show: I/O Edition

A few weeks ahead of Google I/O 2026, the tech giant unveiled brand new AI features coming to the upcoming Android 17 operating system, including Gemini Intelligence, which essentially lets AI agents take control of your Android device and perform tasks autonomously.

Other new Android features include more robust voice-to-text recognition, some autofill smarts, and enhanced digital well-being settings. The company also announced its new Googlebook platform for AI-first laptops made in partnership with companies like Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Dell.

It’s supposed to be very different from a Chromebook, though Google is yet to share specifics. Maybe we’ll hear more about Gemini Intelligence, Googlebook, and more in today’s keynote. To catch all the announcements from The Android Show 2026: I/O Edition, click here.

May 19, 2026 11:30 AM IST
Google I/O 2026: What to expect

-Some reports suggest that Google will take the wraps of its latest Gemini model at today’s event. Though, the performance and capabilities of the tech giant’s upcoming LLM is anyone’s guess.

-Given the surge in popularity of smart glasses, Google’s Android XR-powered frames could potentially capture the spotlight at this year’s I/O. Last year’s event saw Google showing off a prototype and that alone had generated considerable excitement.

-We can also expect updates to Google’s portfolio of generative AI products, including Veo, Lyria, and Beam. While Veo and Lyria are Google’s video and music generators, Beam is an ambitious and futuristic way of video conferencing that uses several cameras to make you appear as though you’re speaking directly to the person in front of you as a 3D model.

-We can also expect AI-powered updates to Google Search, which was in focus at last year's I/O. Based on the rumour-mill, there may also be updates to its creative Google Labs suite, such as its AI music creation tool Flow. Google may introduce a new Gemini model for video generation, expected to be called Omni.

-Given that it's I/O, you can also count on a surprise announcement or two, and perhaps even an AI demo that doesn't go exactly as planned.

May 19, 2026 11:22 AM IST
It's I/O day

Google I/O 2026 is today (May 19), with CEO Sundar Pichai set to take the stage at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, United States. The keynote presentation will also be livestreamed online on Google's official YouTube channels as well as on io.google.com from 10am PT (10:30pm IST) onwards.

Google I/O 2026 is taking place over two days, where the tech giant will showcase its latest features and product updates across Google Chrome, Google Search, Android, YouTube, and more. Similar to pervious years, the keynote presentation is expected to last for roughly two hours, with Pichai likely to be joined by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and several other senior executives who lead key divisions at the company.

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