Google I/O 2026 just wrapped up. The theme this year is AI agents, or, in other words, systems that can autonomously code, browse websites, and manage complex tasks for you.
Here are the 10 coolest updates you need to know about, and what they mean for the future of tech.
Google has a new default AI model called Gemini 3.5 Flash. The main thing you need to know is that it outputs text 4 times faster than other top-tier models.
It also crushed the RKGA2 performance benchmark, scoring 72% — more than double the 33% its older sibling managed. If you use Google Search or the Gemini app today, you are already using it.
Google’s AI-powered search has officially passed 1 billion monthly users, with the number of questions being asked doubling every single quarter.
Google just gave the search box its biggest redesign in 25 years. Now, Google is expanding “Personal Intelligence” to nearly 200 countries in 98 languages for free. This lets you securely connect your Gmail and Google Calendar to your search bar. Instead of just scraping the internet, Search actually knows your schedule and context to give you better answers.
Online shopping usually means having ten tabs open at once. Universal Cart follows you across Chrome, YouTube, and Google Search. You can drop items from Amazon, Best Buy, and Nike all into one single cart.
It tracks price drops in the background and warns you if you are trying to buy PC parts that aren’t compatible with each other. Plus, it will even remind you to use a specific credit card to get cash back.
For developers, Google launched Antigravity 2.0, a brand new standalone desktop app built entirely around agentic coding. It serves as a workspace where AI agents write code, produce artifacts, and do all sorts of complex tasks for you.
Google actually co-optimized their new Gemini 3.5 Flash model specifically to work with the Antigravity framework. They also replaced the old Gemini CLI with a dedicated Antigravity CLI, released a new SDK, and even added native voice support so you can talk through coding problems using Gemini audio models.
Google shared two examples of Antigravity in action: it used Antigravity and Gemini 3.5 Flash to code a working operating system that could play Doom. And secondly, Google challenged a small team to build a new native Gemini app for Mac OS from scratch; and they successfully built over 100 features in less than 100 days.
What’s more, Google is bringing these capabilities directly into the standard Google Search bar for everyday users.
With a new feature called Ask YouTube, you no longer have to skip through an entire 20-minute video to find a 10-second answer. You can type a question, and the AI will skip right to the exact second of the video that holds your answer, instead of a list of long videos to sort through.
It remembers your context, so you can ask follow-ups like, Should I buy the bike with hand brakes or pedal brakes? and it will generate a comparison table right on the screen.
Omni is a “world model” that actually understands real-world physics like gravity and kinetic energy. You can feed it an image, text, or video, and then edit the video just by talking to it.
During a live demo, a musician uploaded a plain video of herself singing, asked the AI to give her a brand new 360-degree camera angle, and the AI built it instantly.
If you have a paid Gemini plan, you can use Omni in the app today. If you want to try it for free, a lighter version called Omni Flash is hitting YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app later this week.
Google Flow is a wild new tool for creators. You can upload just 1 single photo, and the AI will analyze the scene and generate 16 unique video clips from entirely different camera angles.
They also introduced Flow Music, where you can hum a rough piano tune into your microphone, and the AI will transform it into a fully produced R&B track complete with a female vocal track.
Google is bringing back smart glasses this fall. They are audio-first, meaning they talk to you privately instead of using a screen.
They use their camera to see what you see, and during a live demo, the glasses looked at a coffee shop, used the DoorDash app on a phone in the user’s pocket to order a nitro cold brew, and automatically added a 20% tip. All done entirely by voice.
With Auto Browse on Android, Gemini can click through websites to book parking spots or buy tickets for you. To make this even smoother, Google introduced WebMCP. This open web standard lets AI agents talk directly to website backends, which means they don’t have to waste time manually clicking on visual buttons and forms to get your task done, they just instantly complete it.
Gemini Spark is a 24/7 personal agent that runs in the background on Google Cloud. You can tell it to organize a school event, sort your emails, and draft invites, and then you can literally close your laptop.
It is rolling out to people on a new $100-a-month Ultra plan. (Google also quietly dropped the price of its top-tier enterprise plan from $250 down to $200 a month).
If you want to see how your team can actually start building with this new tech, the engineers at Revolgy are already testing it out. Let’s talk about your stack.