Just off stage at #GoogleIO, some highlights from this morning 🧵...
Sundar Pichai@sundarpichai
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May 19, 2026
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Just off stage at #GoogleIO, some highlights from this morning 🧵
Gemini 3.5 Flash is available today for everyone in @antigravity and across our products and APIs.
Compared to 3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash is better across almost all benchmarks with huge progress in coding. It’s also comparable to the best models but very fast (4x faster tokens/ second than other frontier models). And when looking at the intelligence versus output speed, it’s in a league of its own in the top right quadrant.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is available today for everyone in @antigravity and across our products and APIs.
Compared to 3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash is better across almost all benchmarks with huge progress in coding. It’s also comparable to the best models but very fast (4x faster tokens/ second than other frontier models). And when looking at the intelligence versus output speed, it’s in a league of its own in the top right quadrant.
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Google Antigravity is expanding, including a new standalone desktop app that acts as a central home for agent interaction. We’re also introducing a new Antigravity CLI providing a fast, lightweight way to deploy new agents instantly without a graphical user interface, and a new Antigravity SDK, to give direct access to the same agent harness powering our own products to customize and host agents on your own infrastructure.
With 3.5 Flash in Antigravity, developers can now do so much more. The new Antigravity ecosystem is coming to developers today.
With 3.5 Flash in Antigravity, developers can now do so much more. The new Antigravity ecosystem is coming to developers today.
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Gemini Spark is your personal AI agent in the @GeminiApp that gets things done on your behalf, under your direction. It runs 24/7 (and yes - you can close your laptop). It’s powered by Gemini 3.5 and built on the Google Antigravity harness so it can complete long horizon tasks.
Spark will integrate seamlessly with tools, starting with ours, and soon with 3P tools with MCP. You’ll also be able to work with it through email + chat. Available to trusted testers this week and next week in Beta to AI Ultra users in the US.
Spark will integrate seamlessly with tools, starting with ours, and soon with 3P tools with MCP. You’ll also be able to work with it through email + chat. Available to trusted testers this week and next week in Beta to AI Ultra users in the US.
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Gemini Omni is our new model that can create anything from any input - starting with video. It combines Gemini’s intelligence with our generative media models, for a new level of world understanding, multimodality, and editing.
Gemini Omni Flash is rolling out today to Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers globally through the @Geminiapp and Google Flow, to @YouTube Shorts this week, and to our developer and enterprise APIs in the coming weeks.
Gemini Omni Flash is rolling out today to Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers globally through the @Geminiapp and Google Flow, to @YouTube Shorts this week, and to our developer and enterprise APIs in the coming weeks.
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As models get even better, the need for transparency grows. Last year @nvidia adopted our SynthID invisible watermark, and today we’re excited to announce @OpenAI, Kakao, and @ElevenLabs will join them.
We’re also going further by adding C2PA Content Credentials verification to @GeminiApp alongside Synth ID detection and bringing both to Search and Chrome so you can easily check whether content was captured by a camera, or created/ edited with gen AI tools.
We’re also going further by adding C2PA Content Credentials verification to @GeminiApp alongside Synth ID detection and bringing both to Search and Chrome so you can easily check whether content was captured by a camera, or created/ edited with gen AI tools.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is transforming what you can do in Google Search with new agentic capabilities. A few things we’re introducing:
A new intelligent AI-powered Search box, our biggest upgrade in 25 years — rolling out globally.
New information agents that work in the background 24/7 to find exactly what you need at the right moment, and help you take action (coming this summer).
And with the power of Google Antigravity, we’re unlocking new agentic coding capabilities, so Search can build custom interactive experiences – like visual simulations, dashboards or trackers – for your individual questions.
Read more: blog.google/products-and-p…
A new intelligent AI-powered Search box, our biggest upgrade in 25 years — rolling out globally.
New information agents that work in the background 24/7 to find exactly what you need at the right moment, and help you take action (coming this summer).
And with the power of Google Antigravity, we’re unlocking new agentic coding capabilities, so Search can build custom interactive experiences – like visual simulations, dashboards or trackers – for your individual questions.
Read more: blog.google/products-and-p…
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We’re having much more natural conversations with Gemini directly inside many of our products, so we’re bringing this to two more:
Ask YouTube is a new experience for searching for content on YouTube. It gives you information in an easy to navigate layout, with videos best matched to what you’re looking for, and jumps right to the part most relevant to your query.
With voice-powered Docs Live you can brain dump whatever is on your mind, and let Gemini do the rest. Rolling out this summer, and the same voice capability is coming to Gmail and Keep then too.
Ask YouTube is a new experience for searching for content on YouTube. It gives you information in an easy to navigate layout, with videos best matched to what you’re looking for, and jumps right to the part most relevant to your query.
With voice-powered Docs Live you can brain dump whatever is on your mind, and let Gemini do the rest. Rolling out this summer, and the same voice capability is coming to Gmail and Keep then too.
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Read my remarks: blog.google/innovation-and…
