Google’s massive AI showcase at I/O

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Google’s hyped I/O event didn’t disappoint — with a barrage of AI upgrades across its models, agents, search platform, and artistic suite.

And better of all? The Rundown was there to catch all of it live from Mountain View, CA.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Gemini, Search level up at Google I/O

• Google’s suite of next-gen creative AI tools

• Create skilled video ads with AI timeline editing

• FutureHouse’s AI makes first scientific discovery

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE I/O

🚀 Gemini, Search level up at Google I/O

The Rundown: Google just unveiled major upgrades to its flagship Gemini and Gemma AI models at Google I/O, coming alongside recent AI search and shopping features, a series of recent agentic tools, and more.

Gemini / Models:

• Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash received updates, with Pro sweeping benchmarks and Arena leaderboards and Flash leveling up while maintaining speed.

• A brand new “2.5 Deep Think” reasoning model is being released to testers, which shows recent highs across math, coding, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks.

• Gemma 3n launched in preview, a mobile-first open model that rivals larger models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet while being optimized for on-device use.

• Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing rolled out at no cost to all users, with recent personalization integrations launching in the approaching weeks.

Search / Agents:

• AI Mode in search will now be powered by Gemini 2.5 and goes live for all U.S. users, alongside recent ‘Deep Search’ and Gemini Live embedded features.

• Other AI Mode features include a virtual try-on tool, agentic shopping assistance, and Search Live for real-time, multimodal voice queries.

• Google’s coding agent Jules entered public beta, with the power to work on developer tasks within the background and integrate directly with codebases.

• Each Search and Gemini are gaining Agent Mode, which might complete as many as 10 tasks concurrently on a user’s behalf.

Why it matters: These I/O releases feel just like the culmination of years of research projects finally coming to life throughout the corporate’s sprawling AI ecosystem. The search upgrades also represent a serious evolution, with recent personalization and live capabilities that drastically change how users will interact with its flagship product.

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GOOGLE I/O

🌌 Google’s suite of next-gen creative AI tools 

The Rundown: Google also announced a flurry of recent creative models and power upgrades at I/O, including the brand new Veo 3 and Imagen 4 models, a brand new AI filmmaking platform, Lyria music upgrades and broader availability, and more.

The small print:

• The subsequent-gen Veo 3 video model can generate synchronized audio, including sound effects, ambient sounds, and dialogue alongside video outputs.

• Veo 2 receives recent filmmaker-focused features like character and scene consistency, camera movement controls, and inpainting and outpainting editing.

• The brand new Imagen 4 model brings recent quality improvements and the power to render effective details and precise typography, with support for 2k resolution.

• Flow combines AI models right into a filmmaking platform, allowing for the creation of scenes using natural language and character, scene, and magnificence management.

• The brand new models can be found with the corporate’s recent Google AI Ultra plan for $250 / mo and via Google’s Vertex enterprise platform.

Why it matters: Google continues to cook within the creative suite, with some impressive upgrades on the image and video/filmmaking front that look to take the following step up for the industry. The addition of synced audio to SOTA video brings a brand recent control and coherence to generations that can unlock a wild amount of creative options.

AI TRAINING

🎬 Create skilled video ads with AI timeline editing

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn learn how to use LTX Studio’s timeline feature to rework easy text prompts into fully edited videos with music, sound effects, and voiceovers in minutes.

Step-by-step:

1. Start an LTX Studio project and create shots by entering text prompts within the storyboard view

2. Transform still images into videos within the motion editor by choosing your favorite video models

3. Adjust clip lengths, rearrange order, and layer shots within the timeline view

4. Include soundtracks, voiceovers, auto sound effects, and adjust character expressions

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FUTUREHOUSE

👁️ FutureHouse’s AI makes first scientific discovery

The Rundown: FutureHouse announced that their multi-agent AI system “Robin” made its first major scientific breakthrough, identifying a promising recent treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration — a number one reason behind blindness.

The small print:

• Robin autonomously generated hypotheses, designed experiments, analyzed data, and created research figures, with humans handling the physical lab work.

• The system identified ripasudil, a drug already approved in Japan for glaucoma, as a novel treatment candidate for dAMD — which was confirmed in lab tests.

• Robin’s code and data can be open-sourced next week, together with agents Crow (literature search), Falcon (deep review), and Finch (data evaluation).

Why it matters: Together with coding, science looks like one in all the primary frontiers that can see the quickest transformation to AI-human collaboration across workflows — each fast-tracking research and expanding the boundaries of how researchers propose and design recent experiments and hypotheses.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• ⚙️ GitHub Copilot Coding Agent – Fully autonomous agent for coding tasks

• 🔬 Microsoft Discovery – AI R&D enterprise platform for scientific research

• 🤖 Magentic-UI – Microsoft’s open-source human-centric web agent

• 📝 NotebookLM – Google’s AI podcast and info tool, now available for Android

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 🎨 Runway – Sr. Brand Designer

• 🧱 Together AI – Senior Data Engineer

• 👁️‍🗨️ Meta – Computer Vision Engineer

• 🧑‍💻 DeepL – Staff Product Designer

📰 The whole lot else in AI today

Tencent released Hunyuan Game, an AI-powered game production engine for streamlining the creative strategy of game development.

Google announced Google Beam, a communications platform that uses AI to convert 2D video streams into 3D immersive experiences.

Intelligent Web open-sourced II-Agent, a brand new agent framework that surpasses industry-leading agents on benchmarks with strong performance across tasks.

Google launched Stitch, a brand new experiment in Labs allowing users to quickly create impressive user interfaces via easy text prompts or reference images.

Apple is reportedly planning to open its AI models to third-party developers, allowing app creators to construct on the language models behind Apple Intelligence.

Google provided recent demos of its Android XR smartglasses powered by Gemini, also announcing partnerships with Warby Parker and other eyewear brands.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team