Gemini upgrades, AI Search, Android XR, and more
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Google I/O 2025 was dedicated to AI. At its annual developer conference, Google announced updates that put more AI into Search, Gmail, and Chrome. Its AI models were updated to be better at making images, taking actions, and writing code.
I wanted to test Gemini Advanced, ChatGPT, and Copilot Pro head-to-head to see which one helps you get answers faster and more accurately. These are the paid versions, all promising live web access, smarter context, and fewer hallucinations.
Microsoft famously brought its Copilot AI to the Edge browser in Windows. Now Google is doing the same with Chrome. In a list of announcements that spanned dozens of pages, Google allocated just a single line to the announcement: “Gemini is coming to Chrome,
The company has doubled down on AI apps for filmmaking, an agentic coding assistant, video communication platforms, AI mode in search, and much more.
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.
Google adds Gemini to Chrome after Microsoft’s Copilot in Edge, offering web summaries, automation, and AI commands.
Google is making its AI-powered AI Mode search summaries the default option for U.S. users searching on Google, making the traditional list of links harder to find.
Microsoft says that it's embracing Google's recently launched open protocol, Agent2Agent, for allowing AI 'agents' to communicate with each other.
The multinational has unveiled its latest developments, initially available to users with the most advanced and premium subscriptions. Meanwhile, Microsoft joins the race to develop intelligent agent