Apples bloom In the budding process, the sun finally rose before the alarm sounded, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai was wiping the lens of his Gemini-powered smart glasses. You know what this means: Google I/O is time again.
Google will be fully involved in its annual I/O developer meeting, which will begin Tuesday, May 20. The event will be held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, just on the way to Google's headquarters. The keynote starts at 10 a.m. Tuesday and as usual, it will be broadcast live.
Expect to hear and see updates about Android 16, the latest information on Google XR glasses, how AI changes the search experience and how the Gemini interface evolves and enters more Google’s platform.
Google's keynote address should be open with Pichai's comments before the team launches all new content Tuesday, May 20 exist PDT 10 am (EDT at 1pm and BST at 6pm). You can watch it on Google's I/O website or Google's YouTube channel. The video feed is also embedded at the top of this page. Google also provides a feed of American Sign Language.
Be sure to listen on our Google I/O Live blog where the cable team will provide the latest news updates and analytics all announcements. Once we approach the main event, we will post a link to LiveBlog here.
In addition to the main keynote, a developer-centric keynote was followed by a PDT (EDT 4:30).
So much AI. Indeed, that's most of what we expect to cover in Tuesday's keynote. Google has been building its machine intelligence work on all its platforms, integrating it into the main search experience, the main features of Android, and the company's various productivity tools. Remember that just a year ago, we first heard about the AI overview, so we might get the latest information on how AI-driven searches grow over the past year, and a roadmap for the next step.
Of course, we will also hear about Gemini updates and how to use the latest models on Android phones. Google has some projects that are still in the experimental stage (such as the next Gemini model, as well as its new AI search mode), and I/O is where Google usually pushes this content to a general version.
We've learned a lot about Android this year, as Google has shared in Android 16 design changes and new scam features for Android phones in Android 16. We also know that I/O may not announce any pixel or nest hardware. New phones and gadgets usually arrive in the fall.
Finally, we expect a major update to Google's XR efforts. The company showed off Android XR last year, let’s use AI-powered smart glasses to do the hands-on (face-to-face?). Android XR brings Gemini's chatbot-style voice interaction to a set of glasses and pairs with an onboard camera for computer vision. Codenamed Moohan Project, we want to see where these glasses are in their development cycle and updates that everyone can try.