I/O conference has always been a showcase of ambition, but in 2025 it felt like a victory lap. After a period of scrambling to catch up with OpenAI’s early lead, Google is now firmly dictating the pace of the AI race.

Google revamps its search engine by introducing an AI chatbot-style feature, aiming to stay ahead of competitors like OpenAI.

Google has introduced a new $250 per month AI Ultra plan for people who want unlimited access to its most advanced machine learning tools.

Google unveiled dozens of new AI updates at I/O. Some of them seem to overlap significantly.

Follow live updates from the Google I/O 2025. Get the latest developer news from the annual conference as Google is expected to reveal more on its AI tool Gemini.

The I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., has adopted a tone of increased urgency since the rise of generative AI posed a fresh threat to Google’s longtime stronghold of organizing and

Google says the release version of 2.5 Flash is better at reasoning, coding, and multimodality, but it uses 20–30 percent fewer tokens than the preview version. This edition is now live in Vertex AI, AI Studio, and the Gemini app. It will be made the default model in early June.

Alphabet has closed the gap between its generative AI model Gemini and major competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta AI, according to a recent survey from Morgan Stanley. The model is also the most widely used for commercial uses like online shopping.