Google I/O 2025 confirmed a trend at the American giant: artificial intelligence is now at the heart of all its products. We had already had a glimpse of it at the last editions, and the web giant multiplied the promises (and demonstrations) during its event. In addition to AI, the Mountain View firm also reserved a prominent place for mixed reality.
Gemini is truly everywhere in the Google ecosystem
Gemini, Google's multimodal AI model, is now integrated into more than fifteen flagship products and services, including Gmail, Chrome, Google Docs, and Meet. In Gmail, Gemini is improving to offer intelligent replies, compose emails on demand, and manage inbox priorities. On Google Docs, it draws on all your documents to help you write, summarize, or search for information.
Chrome benefits from an integration that allows you to query Gemini on the content of a web page and, ultimately, navigate automatically according to your needs. Finally, on Google Meet, Gemini translates conversations in real time, facilitating multilingual exchanges and making video conferences more inclusive and efficient.
With these Gemini integration announcements, AI becomes the main interface between the user and all Google tools.
Gemini 2.5: faster, more powerful, more accessible
No new version number for Gemini, but Google is still improving its generative AI. Gemini 2.5 Flash (optimized for speed) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (equipped with the Deep Think module for advanced reasoning) benefit from new features and confirm their status as AI benchmarks at Google.
Gemini 2.5 Pro stands out for its ability to understand complex queries, reason over several steps and provide answers detailed, making it particularly suitable for professional or scientific uses. Gemini 2.5 Flash, for its part, can run locally on a smartphone or computer, without an Internet connection, while offering high-level performance. These models also benefit from improvements in security, context management and multimodality, with the possibility of using audio as output.
Veo 3, Imagen 4 and Flow push the limits of Google
Google is taking a step forward in video content creation with the arrival of Google Flow and the Veo 3 model. It is now possible to generate complete videos, with animated images, dialogues and soundtrack, from a simple text prompt.
Reserved for AI Ultra subscribers in the United States, Veo 3 allows you to create clips in a few seconds, combining visual and audio realism. As for the Google Flow tool, it allows you to design films using AI by mastering many aspects of audiovisual production.
With these advances, Google is positioning itself at the forefront of AI video generation and wants to pave the way for new creative uses for both the general public and professionals. AI-assisted image creation is not left behind with the presentation of Imagen 4
Android XR and mixed reality: a new era for interaction
Already made official by Google, the development of Android XR is continuing thanks to the partnership with Samsung. The firm took advantage of I/O 2025 to give new demonstrations of its new extended reality platform.
This initiative includes lightweight smart glasses, designed to rival the Ray-Ban Meta, and aims to make Gemini a virtual assistant in the real world. The announcement, one of the most notable of this conference, confirms the return to the forefront of the Californian firm in this field, several years after the failure of Google Glass. The immersive experience also extends to Wear OS 6, which benefits from a visual overhaul and new features.
Google Search and Shopping: AI is revolutionizing the experience
The Google search engine is radically evolving with the deployment of AI Overviews (excluding France), which offers AI-generated summaries at the top of the results, and AI Mode, allowing conversational and personalized searches, similar to ChatGPT. It becomes possible to communicate with the search engine, to relaunch questions and to obtain answers adapted to one's profile and history.
Google Shopping, for its part, integrates price alerts, virtual clothing fitting and product visualization in augmented reality, revolutionizing the way we consume online. These innovations completely revolutionize the web search experience and aim to strengthen Google's position in its preferred field, that of e-commerce.
Determined to repel the attacks of OpenAI or Perplexity AI, Google is showing its hand and posing new challenges in terms of personal data management and visibility for site publishers.
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