- The keynote was the most boring for me. I paused it to go to the bathroom, and even forgot that I was watching it.
I think they've lost track of the meaning of IO and its keynotes for users. They should rather have a separate Gemini event like they had a separate Android one last week.
They're collectively losing track of their product verticals because they're too focused on shoving AI down everything.
Google Home is a cluster-f, basic things keep failing, and every other announcement from the Google Home VP is about Gemini. It took them years to reduce the frequency at which devices go offline.
Even their sessions seem underwhelming. It's a mixture of "what's new in X" and "AI" this and that.
by arionmiles
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- Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more.
Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.
by satvikpendem
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- 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.
- 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?
- Couldn't get the "Join the livestream" button to work in Firefox on desktop. No problem in Chrome.
by futurestef
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- the vibes are way off. i miss the old days when i/o was all about android and we were all full of optimism
- Remember the good ol' days when we fully owned and controlled our devices? I want that back!
- Google I/O has been my favorite tech event since 2009 when they launched Google Wave. I was hooked.
by jerrygarcia
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- Demo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party
by primaprashant
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- So Spark is cloud hosted openclaw?
- They claim the AI itself built an OS and demoed Doom running on it. Personally, rather than Doom, I think I'll only truly appreciate the real value of this advancement when flawless real-time YouTube subtitle translation actually becomes a reality.
- Tried Antigravity Gemini 3.5 Flash(High) model and can confirm it is super fast and decent good for non complex tasks.
- I'm still remembering the demo from many years ago where a bot would voice call a local business and get information for you and report back.
- Is Antigravity CLI replacing Gemini CLI?
by postexitus
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- That Generative UI in Search is amazing, but mocked message from his wife telling him not to use her in demos was cringeworthy.
- Ugh. Was really hoping that they were going to actually announce a release date for the display glasses this year at I/O, but it seems that they still don't have the tech ready for this. Audio only this year is a massive disappointment.
by LetsGetTechnicl
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- Why would I want to vibe code a "fully functional operating system"?
- I would love to see two things:
1. A new Gemini model that is not quantized.
2. A way to connect NotebookLM notebooks to any agents if you pay for the pro subscription.
- Relatively few industry keynotes have Nobel Prize Winner presenter. Hassabis was promoting the Gemini Scientists Assistant.
by sjhatfield
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- I wonder if they will finally GA new flash and pro gemini models
by LetsGetTechnicl
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- Are the little intro videos for the presenters AI generated? Really depressing compared to the cool intros Apple manages to make without AI.
- Is the website broken for anyone else? I'm clicking on "Join the livestream" and nothing is happening.
- What's funny is that they have different categories such as AI, Android, Chrome, but I bet all of them are just AI anyway
by LetsGetTechnicl
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- "AI Mode" usage is up month over month. Almost like because they forced it upon everyone. Once again, is there any real AI demand?
by hijodelsol
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- It's discouraging to see Google price Gemini 3.5 Flash at 3x the cost of Gemini 3 Flash. I would think that most people that deployed this model in production would have used it for low latency tasks, classification/categorization, customer support or basic RAG-/RAG-style chatbots. Performance on coding benchmarks is nice and all, but where is the "intelligence too cheap to measure"? This new cost point is quite prohibitive and will eat up a lot of margins if developers adopt it.
- "Join the livestream" button does nothing?
- 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.)
- 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".
by dist-epoch
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- This is hilarious, on the Antigravity PRICING page there is no pricing information
https://antigravity.google/pricing
by whalesalad
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- get ready to hear "we can't wait to see what you will build" 10,000 times.
- S.O.S (same old $h*t)
by returnInfinity
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- "Our Model", "Our Model", "Our Model"
by jklmnopqrstuvw
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- Gemini Omni
- 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.
by VanillaAD
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- 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.
by martypitt
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- I wonder if they'll talk about AI?
- can't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI). also can't wait to empower myself with more AI-powered data that will be unlocked with agents. AI.
by shevy-java
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- Google recently announced it will extend its AI slop-spam into google search. Now people will see AI-generated slop mixed with ads.
Google is trying to kill off the open web here. They tried before, e. g. AMP and what not.
I think it is now time for all of us to help retire Google. This planet can only take some Evil - and Google just exceeded planetary limitations.
by 650REDHAIR
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- 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.
by brcmthrowaway
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- Theres no way Google won't win the AI race
$INTC and $GOOG are good buys right now!
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