Google I/O

martypitt

I wonder if they'll talk about AI?

sjhatfield

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

jklmnopqrstuvw

Gemini Omni

jansan

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.

whalesalad

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

brcmthrowaway

Theres no way Google won't win the AI race $INTC and $GOOG are good buys right now!

LetsGetTechnicl

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

kreddor

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

650REDHAIR

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

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?

primaprashant

So Spark is cloud hosted openclaw?

returnInfinity

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

scosman

"Join the livestream" button does nothing?

LetsGetTechnicl

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

jerrygarcia

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

satvikpendem

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 use 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.

porphyra

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

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.

futurestef

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

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.)