Google I/O 2025 doubled-down on Gemini-powered agents, AI-first Android, and a dash of new hardware—the clearest signal yet that “Google does the Googling” for you.

#Key Highlights

• AI Mode for Search – rolls out to all U.S. users, running dozens of Gemini-driven sub-queries and soon tapping Project Mariner to carry out up to 10 web tasks with a Teach-and-Repeat workflow.
• Gemini 2.5 & Chrome – Deep-Think reasoning mode lands for complex math/code, while Gemini comes native to Chrome for tab-wide summarization and navigation.
• Imagen 4, Veo 3 & Flow – next-gen image and video models plus the Flow AI filmmaking app let creators stitch 8-second clips into longer AI movies.
• Project Astra upgrades – the multimodal agent goes proactive with Search Live, speaking up unprompted and handling tasks as you point your camera.
• Android 16 preview – Material 3 Expressive redesign, AI weather-reactive wallpapers, scam-call shields, Private Space, and system-wide Gemini hooks.
• Wear OS 6 – gets the same Material 3 flair, adaptive circular UI and a 10 % battery bump for Pixel Watch and beyond.
• Project Aura XR glasses – Xreal partnership teases wide-FOV smart glasses with on-device Gemini assistance.

Google shipped really hard with this.

Top models according open router, notable how Gemini 2.5 is climbing the ladder, while anthropic 3.7 is slowly going down.

Companies are overfitting their model to the benchmarks. The @lmarena_ai has become the go-to evaluation for AI progress. Their last release demonstrates the difficulty in maintaining fair evaluations on @lmarena_ai, despite best intentions. Read more.

Benchamarks collection from Hugging Face

IQ bench changes in just one year. o3 has an IQ of 160 placing it in the top 100,000 smartest people in the world.

When to use an OpenAI model? Finally OpenAI published a guide that explains when to use which model. Very useful at least until GPT-5 is out we'll continue using more GPT models.