5 Takeaways from Google I/O 2026

FIRST: Gemini Omni coming to the Arab World

We’re introducing Gemini Omni, where Gemini’s ability to reason meets the ability to create. Omni is our new model that can create anything from any input — starting with video. With Omni, you can combine images, audio, video and text as input and generate high-quality videos grounded in Gemini's real-world knowledge. You can also easily edit your videos through conversation.

Today, we’re rolling out the first model in the Omni family: Gemini Omni Flash, to the Gemini app, Google Flow and YouTube Shorts. This will be available in the Arab World. Soon, we will support output modalities like image and audio. Here’s some of what makes Omni special:

• Transform the world around you. Change specific things, or change everything. Your video becomes the starting point for something you never could have filmed yourself.
• Refine your videos across multiple turns. Change the environment, angle, style or even specific details, without ever losing the thread of your original scene. Scroll through the carousel to see how edits build on each other.
• Create videos from any combination of inputs. With input references, you can use images of characters, scenes or drawings to create in a way that matches your vision.

All videos created with Omni include our imperceptible SynthID digital watermark.

SECOND: Powerful AI, right in Search

Because your curiosity doesn’t always fit into keywords, we’re also introducing the biggest upgrade to our Search box in over 25 years — now completely reimagined with AI. This intelligent Search box puts our most powerful AI tools right at your fingertips, making it easier to ask your questions.

It’s more intuitive than ever, dynamically expanding to give you space to describe exactly what you need. Designed to anticipate your intent, it also helps you formulate your question with AI-powered suggestions that go beyond autocomplete. And you can search across modalities, using text, images, files, videos or Chrome tabs as inputs. You’ll continue to get a range of results from Search, just like you do today. The new intelligent AI Search box is starting to roll out today, in all countries and languages where AI Mode is available. This means, check it out anywhere you are in the Arab World.

Gemini 3.5 Flash, also available in the Arab World

Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash, our first in a series of models combining frontier intelligence with action. Two things to highlight:

• When compared to 3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash is better across almost all benchmarks. It’s made huge progress in coding — and look at the extraordinary jump in GDPVal. This captures many real-world economically valuable tasks.
• Gemini 3.5 Flash is a very capable model, at the frontier and comparable to the best models, but it’s still very fast. Which is why when you look at the intelligence versus output speed, it’s in a league of its own in the top right quadrant. When looking at output tokens per second, it is four times faster than other frontier models.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is available for everyone today across our products and APIs. We’re also excited for Gemini 3.5 Pro. We are using it internally, it’s showing great improvements, and it will be coming next month.

FOURTH: New Synth ID & Updates

Millions of people are using our SynthID detector in the Gemini app to verify AI-generated content. And now we’re going a step further and adding Content Credentials verification across products. This will show you if the origin of the content was AI or a camera, and if it’s been edited with generative AI tools. We want more people to have easy access to these tools, so we’re expanding both Content Credentials and SynthID verification to Search and Chrome.

Of course, this only works at scale if more partners decide to watermark their own AI-generated content. Nvidia signed on to SynthID last year. And today, we are thrilled to announce that OpenAI, Ka-Kow and Eleven Labs are adopting SynthID, too. It’s great to see the cross-industry collaboration. We’re looking forward to expanding to more partners and setting the standard of transparency for the AI era.

FIFTH: What else?

Oh many upgrades & new innovations. Let’s highlight three:

• Android XR: First up: audio glasses that offer spoken help in your ear. And second: glasses with a small in-lens display that show you the information you need right when you need it.
• Universal Cart: An intelligent shopping cart and your new agentic hub for shopping on Google. It works across Google products and merchants, allowing you to add things to your cart while you’re browsing Search or chatting in the Gemini app — and in the future you’ll be able to use it while you’re watching YouTube or reading your Gmail. This will be available in the US this summer.
• Antigravity 2.0: Antigravity is expanding beyond the coding environment, turning it into a platform to develop and manage cohorts of autonomous AI agents. This includes Antigravity 2.0, a new standalone desktop application that acts as a central home for agent interaction, where anyone can orchestrate agents for all sorts of tasks. And we developed an even more optimized version Flash: not just 4x but 12x faster than other frontier models.