Celebrating 20 years of Google in Mexico

Twenty years ago, we started our operations in Mexico. It took only a few months after we arrived in the country to open the doors to our Mexico office, the first one in Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’ve consistently grown ever since, adding a Center of Excellence in Engineering, a Cloud Region and teams in other cities in Mexico.

Today, at an event in Mexico City, we celebrated this milestone by showcasing our efforts to support local talent, users and businesses. We shared how we’re bringing our latest AI advancements and how we continue investing in our footprint in the country. But more importantly, we talked about how we’ve been a part of Mexicans’ lives. According to a recent IPSOS study, 89% of respondents agree with the premise "Google Mexico's presence has a positive impact on my life." Moreover, most say Google will continue to have a positive impact on their future.

Investing in education

There’s no technology without talent behind it, so we’re giving Mexican students tools and opportunities to prepare themselves for the jobs of the future.

Students in Mexico now have free access for a year to Google AI Pro, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, Veo 3 Fast, Deep Research and a more advanced version of NotebookLM. But the tools are only part of the solution. Earlier this year, we launched a pilot program of Experience AI in the state of Veracruz, a collaboration between Google DeepMind and the Raspberry Pi Foundation that trains teachers and provides them with the necessary resources to teach students about AI. The pilot, delivered by the NGO Educación para Compartir, trained more than 200 teachers, which benefited more than 5,000 students. Now, Google.org is providing an additional $2 million in funding to continue driving this educational project in Mexico.

We’ve also been offering Career Certificates and AI courses for Mexicans who want to start a career in technology. From digital marketing to cybersecurity and data analysis, we’ve trained more than 29,500 Mexicans since 2019. We want that number to grow, so we’re offering 89,000 scholarships for these courses along with the Ministry of Public Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública) and NGOs, such as International Youth Foundation (IYF).

AI can open endless opportunities for businesses, too, but business owners must learn how to apply it. We’re launching “Inmersión Emprende con AI,” a free training program developed by Google in collaboration with online technology schools Alura and Código Facilito. Our goal is to train 100,000 small and medium-sized businesses to use AI for marketing, customer service and financial management, especially tourism oriented businesses.

Developing smart solutions for Mexico’s challenges

Traffic is always a challenge for big cities, in terms of both time on the road and polluting emissions from cars. Project Green Light uses AI to analyze a city’s driving trends with Google Maps and optimize traffic lights’ programming to improve mobility. In Mexico, the city of Monterrey in the state of Nuevo Leon has already started using this technology in 157 of its street intersections.

Another of the country’s challenges is water management. Google Research recently launched an AI model to predict flooding using satellite images that measure water levels in rivers. Predictions can happen even seven days in advance and alert people in the area through Search, Maps and Android push notifications. We’re now working with the National Meteorological System which depends on CONAGUA, Mexico’s National Water Commission, to ultimately use this model to protect the most vulnerable communities.

Weather concerns aren’t just about floods. Searches related to weather are some of the most popular year after year in Latin America. That’s why we just launched Google Nowcasting in Mexico. This AI-powered tool offers real-time weather forecasts with high accuracy.

Getting AI in the hands of more Mexicans

AI is a powerful tool to help solve complex challenges. Starting today, we’re bringing our most powerful AI search experience, AI Mode, to Mexico with our latest language expansion to Spanish. With the advanced multimodal and reasoning capabilities of our custom version of Gemini 2.5 in Search, AI Mode helps people ask even their most complex questions in new ways, with prominent links to the web to explore further, making Search even more helpful.

We’re also using AI to make it even more effortless to overcome language barriers in the Translate app (for Android and iOS). Using advanced voice and speech recognition capabilities of our latest Gemini models, we’re bringing two new features to Translate in Mexico to help with live conversations and language learning. We introduced improvements to our live translate capabilities, to make it even easier to have a back-and-forth conversation in real time with audio and on-screen translations in the Translate app. And to help Spanish speakers learn English, we just released a new language practice experience in Translate, which creates tailored listening and speaking practice sessions.

Additionally, we’re introducing Google AI Plus, our newest plan designed to help people in Mexico do more with Google AI, for less. It includes Gemini’s powerful assistance built right into Google apps like Gmail, Docs and Sheets. For students and researchers, AI Plus provides access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and more features in NotebookLM, helping them get insights and summaries from their documents faster than ever.

And to make the latest technology available to Mexicans, we just launched Google Pixel in Mexico. Mexico is the first country in Latin America to get access to the Google Pixel suite of products. And with the arrival of Google Pixel 10, we’re giving users Google’s most advanced AI to help them every day.

Expanding Google Mexico

Our work in Mexico is a testament to the incredible local talent here. To mark our 20th anniversary, we’re continuously expanding our team, which has led to a new office space in Polanco, Mexico City, in the near future.

We're proud to invest in the future of Mexican innovation and create opportunities for local talent to build projects with international impact. So today, just as it was two decades ago, our commitment is to work together with the people who make Mexico grow, harnessing technology and AI to build a brighter future for Mexico.