I watched the full Google IO 2026 keynote so you don’t have to. One of the biggest tech events of the year just happened yesterday. Google came up with so many new AI models, new features to the current models, and many more updates. We are going to see now the main announcements that were featured in the event.
My expectation yesterday at the event was what they would be announcing about current Gemini models. As expected, they have introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash which is faster and accurate at handling tasks and will also help in creating more interactive web UIs and graphics. As they mention, it will use very less tokens and give us more accurate results. And this model will be the default model for the Gemini application. And also we are expecting Gemini 3.5 Pro next month.
Along with the above models, Google has introduced a new model to their family, Google Omni, which is a video generation model. It will help to create more precise videos with reasoning and logic from our inputs, unlike Google Veo which only uses text to video. The current model will use assets like video, audio and photos to generate a video from prompts.
Google AI Studio
And also one of the important announcements of the event — Google will allow users to create vibe-coded apps directly in the Google AI Studio. Vibe coding basically means you just describe what you want in plain words and the AI builds the app for you, no coding experience needed. And you can directly publish it on the Play Store as well. And also you can zip the code to work on later or you can export the code to Android Studio or GitHub for future updates.
Google AI Detection
It was also one of the notable announcements at the event. Like previously, users were able to upload photos to Google Gemini and ask the model to confirm whether it was AI-generated or not. The model will check the SynthID watermarking from the photos and tells the users whether it is AI-generated or not.
Now Google is expanding this to the Chrome browser where users can circle or use Google Lens to check any photos from the internet whether they are AI-generated or not, directly from the browser.
The above announcements are now live and you can check and test it on your device.
