That’s all fine and dandy — in theory. In reality, of course, these genAI engines are far less capable, consistent, and reliable than they’re made out to be, and most of those more advanced functions (including anything involving any manner of info seeking, answer providing, or text processing) are generally more of a liability than an asset.

Google I/O highlights include 100 AI updates, with Gemini challenging ChatGPT and a 'total overhaul' of Search.

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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.

“Although the feature is experimental, the goal is to increase the speed that you can ship high-quality code, while significantly reducing the amount of time you spend manually testing, validating, or reproducing issues,” wrote Android Studio Product Manager Mayank Jain in a blog post. Other new features for Android Studio enabled by Gemini are:

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Gemini AI and others now have the ability to scour the video footage we keep in our apps: Here's why, what it's learning and how it may be able to help you.

Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.

You can now create AI-generated images inside Google Docs using Gemini. Here’s how to bring your ideas to life without leaving your document.

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company announced Deep Think, an “enhanced” reasoning mode for its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Deep Think allows the model to consider multiple answers to questions before responding, boosting its performance on certain benchmarks.

Google’s Gemini Diffusion demo didn’t get much airtime at I/O, but its blazing speed—and potential for coding—has AI insiders speculating about a shift in the model wars.