Google I/O

https://io.google/2026/

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martypitt•47m ago

I wonder if they'll talk about AI?

re-thc•44m ago

AGI now surely!

giancarlostoro•39m ago

That's so 2025 according to Sam Altman though.

tardedmeme•34m ago

ASI now. You'd think contrasted with AGI it would be Artificial Specialized Intelligence, but it's Artificial Super Intelligence. Since AGI already happened and didn't mean anything, the next step is a super AI.

smallmancontrov•31m ago

Oh yeah? My dad works on a super duper AI. It's much better than a super AI.

devinprater•18m ago

Mine works on a Super Dee Duper AI!

hansvm•8m ago

That's nothing compared to my (L)udicrously (O)verpowered (L)earner AI.

layer8•18m ago

ML + AGI = GMAIL

bix6•7m ago

Turing award winner right here lol too good

ortusdux•38m ago

It's the free square on the bingo card

Andrex•16m ago

The bingo card: https://i.imgur.com/kHPXHal.jpeg

alizardguy•32m ago

I honestly don't know what I expected, but wow it really is just only ai

layer8•21m ago

“AI is all you need.”

miohtama•28m ago

Maybe Google will finally launch a working coding agent

tempest_•26m ago

I cant see how they could. The Gemini cli repo was a shit show the last time I looked a month ago and the service itself wouldnt even let me use version > 2.5 even though I was a paying customer.

r_lee•9m ago

I think they just need to unleash more agents on it to get the ball rolling. any day now...

londons_explore•19m ago

Antigravity seemed to work well at first, but the same model on the same software now seems to fail to edit most files most of the time, and then get itself tied in knots trying to resolve the error by editing files with awk, sed, grep, etc!

paulddraper•12m ago

Gemini CLI works.

It's not the favorite, but it's definitely "working."

porphyra•24m ago

the question is whether they will talk about anything apart from AI lol

stavros•4m ago

That was the joke.

sjhatfield•45m ago

I wonder if they will finally GA new flash and pro gemini models

londons_explore•18m ago

They will. They've been falling behind on the benchmarks for a few months, and I bet that's because they're waiting for IO.

daemonologist•5m ago

Looks like Flash 3.5 is GA ("stable"): https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...

jklmnopqrstuvw•43m ago

Gemini Omni

jansan•40m ago

I wondered why they updated the Gemini Chat modes today, removing "Thinking" and adding "Thinking level" to Flash. Looks like marketing has been working overtime.

mrtesthah•25m ago

Gemini 3.5 is imminent.

https://www.voxelbench.ai/leaderboard

londons_explore•13m ago

Getting a text based model to design voxel art really doesn't seem to be a good benchmark...

Better leaderboard: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text

And the order of the top players is very different...

650REDHAIR•5m ago

Why are these comments being downvoted?

whalesalad•40m ago

get ready to hear "we can't wait to see what you will build" 10,000 times.

observationist•39m ago

Developers Developers Developers!

storus•32m ago

Agents Agents Agents!

simlevesque•35m ago

"we can't wait to see what you'll ask our models to build !"

brcmthrowaway•37m ago

Theres no way Google won't win the AI race

$INTC and $GOOG are good buys right now!

storus•33m ago

Winning the AI race means obsoleting their current profitable business. They might win but at what cost?

clearstack•24m ago

advertising is ~76% of Alphabet revenue. Cloud is 12% and growing 30%+, but margins arent comparable yet — search basically prints money, cloud is still scaling to prove it.

londons_explore•10m ago

And most of that ad revenue is google search.

But google search has subpar quality for many queries compared to ChatGPT and other AI providers. Even if they did fix the quality issue, nobody has yet got a good way to integrate paid ads within an LLM response.

I'd say those are 2 huge risks to their business.

LocalPCGuy•14m ago

If you don't think AI will include sponsors/ads/etc once someone comes out on top, well, I might have a bridge to sell you.

Seriously though, I'm not sure why Google evolving in this manner precludes them from having a profitable business model. Right now we're subsidizing the costs (probably just a bit) and having ongoing subscription revenue they can increase as needed (particularly in the "google won the race" scenario) will be key before they even have to consider layering advertising on top.

bastardoperator•1m ago

I actually love this. They think they'll be able to control this tech and be lords over everyone. In the meantime everyone is replacing them with homegrown solutions.

LetsGetTechnicl•32m ago

Why would I want to vibe code a "fully functional operating system"?

amaks•16m ago

It's an example of AI coding agents successfully completing complex coding tasks.

Andrex•15m ago

Tinkering and experimentation.

Could be a good use for older hardware. Why not.

LetsGetTechnicl•7m ago

How would unoptimized slop code be good for older hardware? That's what Linux and other projects are for. If you wanted to tinker and learn how operating systems work, you'd code one yourself like I did in CS classes. You'd actually learn something and you get the good feeling of having done it yourself.

MrDarcy•7m ago

Why wouldn’t you want to?

kreddor•32m ago

Couldn't get the "Join the livestream" button to work in Firefox on desktop. No problem in Chrome.

pingou•24m ago

Couldn't get it to work on Chrome. Had to find the stream on youtube.

scosman•18m ago

Doesn't work on Chrome or safari for me

FergusArgyll•12m ago

I had to disable ublock, maybe you have it installed in firefox and not chrome?

650REDHAIR•28m ago

Just in time for mass cancellations after their usage rug pull!

Canceled my $20/mo tier.

Two prompts took me into 67% usage. One of those prompts was lost completely and errors out when try to access it.

Gemini users are livid.

babl-yc•24m ago

Interesting that the 3.5 Flash launches before 3.5 Pro. Historically it's been the reverse for Gemini since Flash is distilled from Pro?

Are they just training it a bit longer until it tops benchmarks?

londons_explore•21m ago

3.5 flash is presumably cheaper to run than pro too... Perhaps the company is compute constrained like everyone else is?

f311a•16m ago

Just a little bit, $9 vs $12 (3.1 Pro, the current PRO).

aykutseker•8m ago

flash beating the pro it was distilled from is suspicious, not surprising.distillation usually loses you something. if the smaller model is winning on agentic evals, the more likely read is the evals weren't measuring agent quality in the first place. that's the bigger problem for builders, not which model to pick.

primaprashant•22m ago

So Spark is cloud hosted openclaw?

jatins•18m ago

pretty much

Eldodi•4m ago

Looks closer to a Codex on a mac mini

returnInfinity•21m ago

"Our Model", "Our Model", "Our Model"

scosman•19m ago

"Join the livestream" button does nothing?

spogbiper•17m ago

same here

this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU

porphyra•14m ago

I found that ublock origin was blocking it. I disabled ublock origin and the button works.

layer8•14m ago

None of the buttons and controls work on Safari for me.

LetsGetTechnicl•18m ago

"AI Mode" usage is up month over month. Almost like because they forced it upon everyone. Once again, is there any real AI demand?

p4coder•12m ago

At the moment, I end up using AI mode only because the ads are not as prominent as the normal search.

prerok•6m ago

Indeed. Don't worry, ads will be back, just give it some time /s

LetsGetTechnicl•2m ago

Do you use an adblocker? Google also added a "Web" filter that removes all the AI slop and you can create a link to it: https://udm14.com/

adithyareddy•9m ago

Only speaking for myself, but I use it a lot, and intentionally. Enough that I set up a search engine shortcut for it in my browser (g <space> type prompt here <enter>).

I much prefer it to having to click through links to find things. My last handful of searches were:

- Looking up open hours for a local store

- Defining words

- "postgres select where string has prefix"

- "cloudformation read parameter from ssm"

Things where I want to look up a fact, but want an answer right away without having to read through multiple pages.

layer8•6m ago

Judging by global RAM, storage, and compute hardware demand, yes there is.

Zanfa•3m ago

Not surprising. It’s placed exactly where the regular search results used to be (when navigating away from image results) and muscle memory is strong. Haven’t clicked it intentionally once though.

Corence•3m ago

I've used it for live service video games, it's pretty good at summarizing major changes to a game since you've played it last. With regular web search you'd have to go to every major patch and a lot of games don't even have good patch notes / it's all stuck in content creator videos.

Though I still prefer Claude for this since it's better at citing sources.

jerrygarcia•18m ago

Demo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party

Corence•5m ago

Unironically you can put "what are good demos for agentic workflows at Google I/O that would be received well by the general public" into Gemini's AI Mode and get better suggestions for use cases than what they're showing.

satvikpendem•17m ago

I wonder what's in store for the local Gemma models, as well as Flutter. I've been making fully local apps that either download Gemma 4 2B or uses the built-in AICore in Android and Apple's Foundation Models. Local models are getting really good these days including web search and tool calling such that for many use cases I don't even need cloud models.

WarmWash•8m ago

I believe tomorrow their is a Gemma keynote

porphyra•16m ago

Kinda annoying how Google always releases new products "in a safe and secure way" to a handful of "trusted testers". They already fumbled their image generation launch with Imagen a couple years ago while DALL-E rolled out in the ChatGPT app, and likewise with video generation. Took a while to regain the mindshare with nano banana. With the new Spark and stuff locked behind "trusted testers", I'm worried that again they will get overtaken by competitors while waiting in the name of "safety".

VanillaAD•15m ago

You can tell the labs are scrambling with this agentic nonsense. Nobody really knows what to do with it.

All 3 major labs streamlined their desktop apps and plans to be the exact same. And we are still doing email drafts as "consumer use cases".

As I'm typing this they are talking about reimagining the search box. They turned it into a chat window.

Truly the pinnacle of innovation.

r_lee•7m ago

and I don't think anybody likes getting AI written emails, at least if I smell any AI I immediately get a sour feeling

prerok•1m ago

Indeed it is. I always wanted to chat with my clippy. Finally, after 20-25 years I now have the opportunity to do so /s

futurestef•13m ago

the vibes are way off. i miss the old days when i/o was all about android and we were all full of optimism

dvt•12m ago

I was curious and just installed it, and... Antigravity is a literal clone of VSCode. Wtf? Honestly, it's so embarassing. I might write a blog post about this, but I remember falling in love with the art of product watching Google demo Google Wave. Janky sure, ahead-of-its-time maybe, but also visionary and mind-blowing. Here we are almost two decades later and Google is re-releasing something made by Microsoft. The epitome of laziness and uninspired hive-think.

Imo, there's so much room for an actual normie end-product that supercharges local work with AI for regular people (office workers, creatives, etc.), but a VSCode clone ain't it. (Insert: fine, I'll do it myself Thanos meme.)

postexitus•11m ago

Erm - It is VSCode.

MrDarcy•8m ago

Which is good. Why reinvent this particular wheel? Even I, a grey beard 30 year vim user appreciate VScode as my daily driver.

evilduck•4m ago

https://antigravity.google/ and https://antigravity.google/product

Nowhere on their marketing copy do they own up to that. Even the majority of the UI screenshots intentionally exclude the full UI look and feel and most are plucked out to not even look contextually like they're part of a greater IDE interface. It very much feels like they want to call it their own and not a fork of VS Code.

But wait, there's more ... you can also view https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 where it's no longer a VS Code fork but now a clone of Claude Desktop!

I think it's a fair to label this all as unoriginal and uninspiring.

akmittal•8m ago

Most AI IDEs are VSCode fork. Everyone is just pushing their own subscription service. Antigravity is made by Windsurf team and pushes Gemini models

ai_fry_ur_brain•5m ago

They have like 100 junk AI products, antigravity is just one. AI is hardly super charging anyone's work either, regardless of how you package it, especially normies.

95% of people just want to search things and be entertained with their tech. Most dont want to write slop emails at light speed or whatever it is you think AI might be useful for to the average person.

If you consider slopifying your output at a really high velocity "supercharging" then maybe.

r_lee•10m ago

can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI). also can't wait to empower myself with more AI-powered data that will be unlocked with agents. AI.

vatsachak•6m ago

Powerful. AI

talloaktrees•4m ago

i went to Google Cloud Next last month, this comment is on point

gordon_freeman•1m ago

AIAIAIAIAIAI...to<infinity>

Alive-in-2025•1m ago

I can't think of a way to mock all the ai hype more than what they actually just talk about.

"Next, our hacker news AI agent reads and comments for you based on your commenting history, no need to think or do anything at all - we'll automate your time wasting and make better, more relevant jokes than you your karma score will increase exponentially."

xnx•8m ago

Is Antigravity CLI replacing Gemini CLI?

primaprashant•5m ago

Looks like it. Found this:

> On June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals.

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...

hijodelsol•6m ago

It's discouraging to see Google price Gemini 3.5 Flash at 3x the cost of Gemini 3 Flash. I would think that most people that deployed this model in production would have used it for low latency tasks, classification/categorization, customer support or basic RAG-/RAG-style chatbots. Performance on coding benchmarks is nice and all, but where is the "intelligence too cheap to measure"? This new cost point is quite prohibitive and will eat up a lot of margins if developers adopt it.

ai_fry_ur_brain•3m ago

Expect all models to increase in price 3x with new releases. They're easing us into the margins they're targeting.

Flash 3 wasnt appropriately priced, it was priced to get you used to a certain level of spending, then they'll crank it up and get you used to the next level of spending.

akmittal•6m ago

Tried Antigravity Gemini 3.5 Flash(High) model and can confirm it is super fast and decent good for non complex tasks.

postexitus•4m ago

That Generative UI in Search is amazing, but mocked message from his wife telling him not to use her in demos was cringeworthy.

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