Google introduced a number of updates to the Gemini AI chatbot app during Google I/O 2025, together with extra broadly accessible multimodal AI options, up to date AI fashions, and deeper integrations with Google’s suite of merchandise.
Beginning Tuesday, Google is rolling out Gemini Stay’s digicam and screen-sharing capabilities to all customers on iOS and Android. The function, powered by Mission Astra, permits customers to have near-real-time verbal conversations with Gemini, whereas concurrently streaming video from their smartphone’s digicam or display to the AI mannequin.
For instance, whereas strolling round a brand new metropolis, customers might level their cellphone at a constructing and ask Gemini Stay in regards to the structure or historical past behind it, and get solutions with little to no delay.
Within the coming weeks, Google says Gemini Stay may even begin to combine extra deeply with its different apps. The corporate says Gemini Stay will quickly be capable to provide instructions from Google Maps, create occasions in Google Calendar, and make to-do lists with Google Duties.
The slew of updates to Google’s Gemini are a part of the corporate’s efforts to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Apple’s Siri, and different digital assistant suppliers. The rise of AI chatbots has given customers a brand new option to work together with the web and their gadgets. This has put stress on a number of Large Tech companies, together with Google Search and Google Assistant. Google introduced throughout I/O 2025 that Gemini now has 400 million month-to-month energetic customers, and the corporate certainly hopes to develop that consumer base with these updates.
Google launched two new AI subscriptions: Google AI Professional, a rebrand for its $20-per-month Gemini Superior plan, and Google AI Ultra, a $250-per-month plan that competes with ChatGPT Professional. The Extremely plan offers customers very excessive price limits, early entry to new AI fashions, and unique entry to sure options.
U.S. subscribers to Professional and Extremely who’ve English chosen as their language in Chrome may even get entry to Gemini of their Chrome browser, Google introduced Tuesday. The combination goals to let customers ask Gemini to summarize data or reply questions on what seems on their display.
Google says it’s updating Deep Analysis, Gemini’s AI agent that generates thorough analysis studies, by permitting customers to add their very own non-public PDFs and pictures. Deep Analysis will cross-reference these non-public PDFs with public knowledge to create extra personalised studies. The corporate says that quickly customers will be capable to instantly combine Drive and Gmail to Deep Analysis.
Free customers of Gemini are getting an up to date AI picture mannequin, Imagen 4, which Google says delivers higher textual content outputs. Subscribers to the corporate’s new $250-per-month AI Extremely plan may even get entry to Google’s trending AI video mannequin, Veo 3, which generates sound that corresponds to video scenes by means of native audio era.
Google can be updating the default mannequin in Gemini to be Gemini 2.5 Flash, which the corporate says will provide increased high quality responses with decrease latency.
To cater to the rising variety of college students that use AI chatbots, Google says Gemini will now create personalised quizzes targeted on areas that customers discover difficult. When customers reply questions fallacious, Gemini will assist create further quizzes and motion plans to strengthen these areas.