Google I/O · May 19, 2026

Google I/O 2026
The Agentic Era

Google ran its whole keynote on one idea... AI should stop answering and start doing. Two new models, a fleet of always-on agents, a free platform for building your own, smart glasses, and a quiet price war on its top plan. Here's all of it. What each one does, what it costs, when you get it, and what's worth your attention.

24
Announcements
2
New AI models
6
Expert moves
1
Keynote
01 · The fast version

The 60-second version

If you read nothing else, read these six lines.

1

Gemini Omni makes and edits video from text, images, audio, or video. It's free inside YouTube Shorts.

2

Gemini 3.5 Flash puts frontier-grade AI at Flash prices. Frontier capability just got cheap.

3

Gemini Spark is a 24/7 agent that works while your laptop is closed. It's also $100 a month, US-only.

4

Antigravity 2.0 lets anyone run a whole team of AI agents on a project. Free, today.

5

Search is being rebuilt for conversations and background agents, not keywords.

6

A new $100 AI Ultra tier appeared. The old $250 plan quietly dropped to $200.

02 · The big eight

The headliners

The eight launches that matter most. Features, pricing, release dates, and what Google actually demoed.

New model · Video Live now

Gemini Omni

Google's "create anything from any input" model. Feed it text, images, audio, and video, and it builds one coherent video. Then you edit that video by chatting.

Why creators careGeneration and editing happen in the same conversation. Make a clip, then say "swap the setting, change the character, fix the product label." Characters, physics, and scene hold steady while you do it. That iteration loop is the part rivals don't have. You can also build a digital avatar of yourself and star in videos with no shoot.
  • Any-to-any input. Reference images, audio, video, and text in one prompt
  • Conversational editing. Multi-turn edits that hold their continuity
  • Digital avatars. Record yourself once, reuse your likeness
  • Launch model is Omni Flash, capped at 10-second clips. Video output only for now
  • Still held back... editing real people's speech in existing footage
Plan
AI Plus / Pro / Ultra · free in YouTube Shorts
Released
Today · API in weeks

Google's demo... a claymation protein-folding explainer built from one prompt. Early tests put it behind Seedance 2 on cinematic feel, ahead on prompt control.

New model · Agentic Live now

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google's newest model. Frontier-grade intelligence at Flash speed and Flash price, built to act, not just answer.

Why creators careFrontier capability just got cheap. It runs at roughly a third to half the cost of comparable models, and 4× faster. Google says enterprises could save $1B a year. For anyone running content pipelines or automations, the math on "too expensive" just changed.
  • Beats the prior flagship, 3.1 Pro, on nearly every benchmark
  • 4× faster token output than other frontier models
  • Runs autonomous multi-hour sessions, pausing for your input
  • The new default model in the Gemini app and Search AI Mode, free
  • Gemini 3.5 Pro, the "orchestrator" sibling, arrives June 2026
Plan
Free for everyone · on the API
Released
Today, globally

Already in use at Shopify, Macquarie Bank, Salesforce, Ramp, Xero, and Databricks.

New agent Beta · week of May 26

Gemini Spark

A 24/7 cloud-based AI agent in the Gemini app. It does real work for you while your laptop is closed.

Why creators careThis is the first mainstream agent that runs without you. It can watch an inbox so a small business never misses a lead, or turn meeting notes into a polished doc plus a kickoff email. It's also gated. Read the Expert take below before you wait on it.
  • Runs on dedicated cloud VMs, so it keeps working while you're away
  • Built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity agent harness
  • Plugs into Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides
  • Recurring triggers, teachable skills, multi-step workflows
  • Canva, OpenTable, and Instacart connections land this summer
Plan
AI Ultra only · US only · Beta
Released
Testers this week · beta May 26

Google's demo... planning a block party. An RSVP spreadsheet, a doc tracking who brings what, reminder emails sent on their own.

Dev · Design tool Live now

Stitch

Google Labs' AI design tool, now a real-time partner. Describe a UI by voice or text and watch it build live.

Why creators careFor a marketer, Stitch runs straight from idea to a live page. It streams a real design as you steer it, generates a shareable link, and publishes to the web through Netlify. A landing page or an offer can be live without a developer.
  • Start from a prompt, your voice, or existing code and design files
  • The Stitch Agent streams its work to the canvas in real time
  • Steer and reflow layouts live, by talking to it
  • Instant shareable links through Google AI Studio
  • Export to Antigravity for backend logic, or publish through Netlify
Plan
Free (Google Labs)
Released
Today, globally
Dev · Agent platform Live now

Antigravity 2.0

A standalone, agent-first desktop app. A command center for running a whole team of AI agents on one project.

Why creators careIt's no longer just for coders. You can run parallel agents on a project, with one drafting website copy, one generating on-brand assets, and one writing customer emails, all at once. And it's free.
  • Standalone app for Mac, Linux, and Windows, with no IDE required
  • Dynamic subagents. The lead agent spins up focused helpers
  • Scheduled tasks, async work, slash commands like /goal and /grill-me
  • Ships with a CLI and an SDK to build and host your own agents
  • Powers the new one-call Managed Agents API
Plan
Free for everyone, globally
Released
Today

For a limited time, AI Ultra subscribers get $100 in bonus Antigravity credits. Claim it in-app. The offer ends May 25, 2026.

Search New box live now

Search enters the agentic era

The biggest Search-box redesign in 25 years, plus AI agents that watch the web for you around the clock.

Why marketers careHow people search is changing. Queries are getting long and conversational, and Search now runs background "Information agents." Ranking for a keyword matters less now than being the answer an AI puts together.
  • New intelligent box that expands as you type and reads your intent
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash is the new default in AI Mode, global, today
  • Information agents. Brief one once, it scans the web 24/7
  • Agentic booking. Google can call local businesses for you
  • Generative UI. Search builds interactive tools on the fly
Plan
New box free · agents = AI Pro/Ultra
Released
Box today · agents this summer

Google's demo... finding a private karaoke room for six on a Friday that serves food late, with booking links pulled together for you.

Shopping · Commerce This summer

Universal Cart

One intelligent shopping cart that follows you across Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, hunting deals in the background.

Why marketers careThis is the start of agentic commerce, where the purchase is made by an AI, not a human clicking. For DTC and e-comm brands, the new question is whether a shopping agent can actually read your catalog.
  • Add products from Search, Gemini, YouTube, or Gmail into one cart
  • Background deal-hunting, price history, back-in-stock alerts
  • Built on Google Wallet, so it picks the best card for perks
  • Reads your cart and flags products that won't work together
  • Runs on open protocols, UCP and the Agent Payments Protocol
Plan
No subscription gate stated
Released
Search + Gemini, US, this summer

Launch merchants include Nike, Sephora, Target, Ulta, Walmart, Wayfair, and Shopify stores.

Hardware This fall

Android XR Smart Glasses

Google's intelligent eyewear. Gemini in your ear now, and in your lens later, built with Samsung, Qualcomm, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker.

Why creators careA new always-on capture device, and a hands-free way to reach Gemini. It's also Google's direct answer to Meta's Ray-Bans, and the only real consumer hardware of the keynote.
  • Two types... Audio Glasses with no screen, and Display Glasses
  • Ask about what you see, turn-by-turn navigation, hands-free calls
  • Capture photos and video, then edit with one Nano Banana command
  • Real-time speech and sign translation
  • Pairs with both Android and iPhone
Plan
Hardware buy · price not announced
Released
Audio glasses this fall

Designer frames from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Display glasses were shown, but given no firm date.

03 · The rest of the keynote

Everything else worth knowing

Fourteen more launches that didn't headline but still move things.

Gemini 3.5 Pro

The larger "orchestrator" model. It plans the work, then hands sub-tasks to Flash. In testing now.

June 2026

Google AI Studio

Now builds native Android apps in production Kotlin, deploys to Cloud Run in one click, and exports straight to Antigravity.

Live now

Managed Agents API

Spin up a fully provisioned agent with one API call. Reasoning, tools, and code execution included.

Live now

WebMCP

An open standard that lets websites expose functions directly to AI agents. The plumbing of the "agentic web."

Chrome 149 trial

Daily Brief

A personalized morning digest in the Gemini app. It pulls Gmail, Calendar, and chats into one action plan.

Today · US

Google Pics

An AI image tool built on Nano Banana. Select and edit single objects, rewrite text inside an image, co-edit on a shared canvas. It's not Google Photos.

Summer · Pro/Ultra

Google Flow + Flow Music

Omni-powered video creation, plus a Lyria 3 Pro music tool with section-by-section editing. Now in 140+ countries.

Live now

Ask YouTube

Conversational video search. Ask a complex question, get an interactive set of the most relevant clips.

Premium · US · 18+

SynthID + C2PA

AI-content watermarking and provenance, now verifiable in Search and Chrome. 100B+ images and videos already marked.

Search today

Android Halo

A status-bar layer that shows, at a glance, what your agent is working on right now.

Later this year

Googlebook

A new Gemini-first laptop category, the Chromebook's successor, with a Magic Pointer and custom widgets.

This fall

Wear OS 7

A watch refresh. New Wear Widgets in a grid replace the old fullscreen Tiles.

Announced

Neural Expressive

A full redesign of the Gemini app. Fluid motion, inline Gemini Live, richer visual responses.

Today · free

Gmail Live · Docs Live

Conversational voice features. Search your inbox or co-write a doc by talking to it.

Summer · Pro/Ultra
04 · What it costs

Pricing & plans

Only one real price story this year. A new $100 Ultra tier appeared, and the old $250 Ultra dropped to $200. Here's the full picture.

Free

$0
forever
Gemini 3.5 Flash as default
Nano Banana image generation
Generative UI in Search
New Gemini app redesign

AI Plus

$7.99
per month
Everything in Free
+ Gemini Omni
+ Daily Brief & AI Inbox
+ 200 GB storage
New tier

AI Ultra

$100
per month
Everything in Pro
+ Gemini Spark (US)
+ 5× usage · priority Antigravity
+ 20 TB · YouTube Premium
Was $250

AI Ultra Max

$200
per month
Everything in the $100 tier
+ Project Genie
+ 20× usage limits
Same capabilities, lower price
One change that hits everyone. The Gemini app is moving off daily prompt limits and onto a "compute-used" model. Your limit now factors in how complex the prompt is, which features you use, and how long the chat runs. It refreshes every 5 hours up to a weekly cap. Pro and Ultra subscribers can also buy pay-as-you-go top-up credits. (Plus and Pro prices didn't change at I/O. The new $100 tier and the $250-to-$200 cut were the only price news.)
05 · When you get it

The release timeline

Google has a habit of announcing before shipping. Here's what's actually usable today versus what's a promise.

May 19, keynote day Available now
Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0, Stitch, the new Search box, AI Mode on 3.5, the Gemini app redesign, Daily Brief, Google Flow updates, AI Studio, the Managed Agents API. Plus the new $100 AI Ultra tier and the $250-to-$200 price cut.
This week
Gemini Omni rolls out free in YouTube Shorts. Gemini Spark opens to trusted testers.
Week of May 26
Gemini Spark opens as a beta for US AI Ultra subscribers. One date to catch... the $100 Antigravity bonus-credit offer ends May 25.
June 2026
Gemini 3.5 Pro, the larger orchestrator model, becomes available.
This summer
Search Information agents and agentic booking, Universal Cart, Google Pics, Gmail / Docs Live, the Omni API, and the broad Ask YouTube rollout.
This fall
Android XR audio glasses (Gentle Monster + Warby Parker) and the first Googlebook laptops.
Later / no firm date
Android Halo, the display version of the smart glasses, and the pro-tier Omni Pro model.
06 · What to do

Default vs. Expert: the real moves

For each of these, the Default is what any AI would tell anyone who asked. The Expert read is what changes once you apply domain knowledge, reframe the question, or notice what a generalist would miss. The gap is the whole point.

1

Using Gemini Omni for video

Default

"Google launched a powerful new AI video model. Use Gemini Omni to generate video content for your brand."

Expert

Omni's generation quality isn't the headline. Early hands-on tests rank it behind Seedance 2 on cinematic feel. Three things matter more for ad work. First, conversational editing, which removes an object or rewrites a scene without re-rolling the whole clip. Competitors can't do that. Second, accurate text rendering, which Google's own DeepMind lead called "really useful for advertising," where product names and slogans have to be right. Third, distribution, since it's free inside YouTube Shorts. The avatar feature also means talent-led UGC with no shoot and no creator fee. Treat Omni as an editing and iteration layer, not a Veo replacement.

The gapReframed from "a new video generator" to "an editing and iteration tool with a distribution edge," and named the real weakness, raw generation quality, that a generalist would gloss over.
2

Reacting to Gemini 3.5 Flash

Default

"Gemini 3.5 Flash is faster and smarter. Switch to it for better, quicker results."

Expert

The speed is getting the attention. The price is the real story. Frontier-grade capability just collapsed to Flash pricing, roughly a third to half the cost of comparable models. Google's claim of $1B a year in enterprise savings is the signal. This is a pricing event dressed up as a model launch. Every content pipeline, research agent, or multi-step automation you shelved last quarter for being too expensive is worth re-costing this week. The constraint that killed those projects just moved.

The gapReframed from "a better model" to "a pricing event." The move is re-evaluating the automations you already abandoned, not swapping a model name in a prompt.
3

Getting a 24/7 agent like Gemini Spark

Default

"Gemini Spark is a 24/7 AI agent that works for you. Sign up to get an assistant that runs while you sleep."

Expert

You can't sign up. Spark is Ultra-tier at $100 a month, US-only, in beta the week of May 26. Waiting on the product is the wrong move. The reusable part is the architecture... cloud-VM agents running on the Antigravity harness. Antigravity 2.0, its CLI, and its SDK are free and shipped today. If you want a 24/7 agent, build the pattern now with the free tools. The capability is open. Only the consumer wrapper is locked.

The gapCaught that the product is gated and unavailable, then redirected to the free primitives that deliver the same capability today.
4

Treating Stitch as a design tool

Default

"Stitch lets you design interfaces with AI. Use it to mock up your ideas faster."

Expert

For a marketer, Stitch is a same-day path from idea to a live, shareable asset. It streams a real design as you steer it by voice, generates a shareable link, and publishes to the web through Netlify. AI Studio deploys full apps to Cloud Run, with the first two free. Landing pages, quiz funnels, lead magnets, interactive offers... concept to live URL, with no developer and no Webflow subscription. You can test an offer the same afternoon you think of it.

The gapReframed from "a design tool" to "a no-developer path to a live, testable offer." The value is speed to market, not prettier mockups.
5

Responding to AI in Search & shopping

Default

"Google added AI agents to Search and shopping. Keep your SEO and product listings current."

Expert

Three announcements point to one structural shift. The web is being rebuilt for agents, not just humans. The new Search box is built for long conversational queries, and 3.5 Flash is the AI Mode default. Being the answer an AI puts together now beats ranking for a keyword. WebMCP lets sites expose functions directly to agents, and Expedia, Shopify, Instacart, and Target are already testing it. Universal Cart means an AI, not a person, increasingly does the buying. Within roughly twelve months, "is my site and catalog agent-readable?" becomes a real question, the way "is it mobile-ready?" was in 2012. Audit clients for AI-answer presence and structured-data readiness now.

The gapConnected three separate announcements into one shift a generalist would treat as three unrelated SEO tips, and named the next frontier, WebMCP, before it's obvious.
6

Thinking about AI watermarking

Default

"Google's SynthID watermarks AI content so people can spot what's fake. Good for trust."

Expert

If you ship AI content for clients, this is now an operational fact, not a curiosity. Every Omni video carries a SynthID watermark, verifiable in Search and Chrome with one click. OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Meta are all on the standard. That has two consequences. Undisclosed AI is becoming technically undeniable, so bake disclosure into your process before a platform forces it. And provenance becomes a selling point. "Verifiably real," or "verifiably ours," is a positioning angle for any brand worried about deepfakes of its founder or talent.

The gapReframed a detection feature into an operational disclosure reality, and a brand-positioning opportunity a generalist would never surface.