This year's Google I/O developer's conference was packed with AI. Google showed off the latest updates to its Gemini AI platform and debuted its pricey new AI Ultra subscription plan (spoiler: it's $250 per month).

Project Mariner, Google's AI agent that browses Chrome for you, is getting more powerful — and coming to more people.

Not to be outdone by its AI rivals, Google's I/O developer conference, which runs from May 20-21, is showcasing the future of Gemini and how that AI will fit into your everyday life. PCMag is on the ground in Mountain View, bringing you all the latest news.

The difference between the two plans centers mainly on the usage limits for AI tools and access to bleeding-edge technology. Google AI Ultra has much higher limits, meaning if you

Follow live updates from the Google I/O 2025. Get the latest developer news from the annual conference as Google is expected to reveal more on its AI tool Gemini.

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here. I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We're looking forward to plenty of news relating to Android,

Google says the release version of 2.5 Flash is better at reasoning, coding, and multimodality, but it uses 20–30 percent fewer tokens than the preview version. This edition is now live in Vertex AI, AI Studio, and the Gemini app. It will be made the default model in early June.

“Although the feature is experimental, the goal is to increase the speed that you can ship high-quality code, while significantly reducing the amount of time you spend manually testing, validating, or reproducing issues,” wrote Android Studio Product Manager Mayank Jain in a blog post. Other new features for Android Studio enabled by Gemini are: