The latest AI news we announced in August
General summary
Google made many AI advancements in August. You can now use AI Mode in Search in more countries and Deep Think in the Gemini app. Google also released new Pixel hardware with advanced AI features and made AI learning tools free for college students.
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For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news.
Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from August.
August was bananas. We had an AI Mode in Search expansion, a new line of Pixel hardware that includes our most advanced on-device AI and plenty of other news to round out the month — including a new image editing release in the Gemini app (Nano Banana) and Google DeepMind’s first real-time interactive general-purpose world AI model, Genie 3. We’ve made bunches of AI news this month, including AI to help endangered species, and it’s all focused on our mission of delivering AI products and features in a way that can improve the lives of as many people as possible.
We expanded AI Mode in Search and added new agentic features. AI Mode’s new advanced agentic and personalized capabilities mean Google can do more on your behalf and help you get things done. Now, if you’ve opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs in the U.S., you will see results tailored to your personal preferences, beginning with dining recommendations. You can even collaborate and share your AI Mode links with friends using the new “Share” button. We’ve also expanded AI Mode to more than 180 new countries and territories in English.
We rolled out Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Deep Think can be an incredibly powerful tool for complex reasoning and problem solving, and we made it available to Google AI Ultra subscribers. A variation of this same model won the gold-medal standard at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)!
We rolled out the best Google AI in Pixel hardware at Made by Google 2025. Our annual hardware event featured the release of our most helpful phones yet, the AI-powered Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, all featuring the Google Tensor G5 chip. Our latest Pixels come with Gemini Nano to power features like Magic Cue, photo editing with text and voice prompts, Gemini Live for a more helpful, natural and visual assistant and more.
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We unveiled a new image model in the Gemini app. Google DeepMind’s image generation and editing model “Nano Banana” is already the top-rated image editing model in the world. Now, it’s in the Gemini app, where you can edit your old photos or create new images. You can maintain a consistent likeness when editing photos of people or even pets, all while switching up outfits, blending photos and mixing up styles.
We made our most advanced AI learning tools available to college students for free. As back to school season kicked off, we made a free one-year subscription to Google’s AI Pro plan available to college students in the U.S. as well as Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil — and more. Students get expanded access to tools Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Research, NotebookLM, Veo 3 and Guided Learning to help foster critical thinking, deepen understanding and improve studying.
We shared 14 ways Googlers use AI to work smarter. After asking Googlers how they use AI every day to spark creativity, create content, complete tasks like code generation and data analysis and more, we turned what we found into tips for you.
We made our asynchronous coding agent, Jules, available for everyone. Jules was designed to be an autonomous agent that integrates with your repositories, understands your intent, makes a plan and gets to work. After refining Jules in beta with a polished user interface and code fixes, we made it available to support everyone with coding tasks.
We introduced AI-powered live translation and language learning tools in Google Translate. Using advanced AI models, the new live capabilities in Translate make it easier to communicate in real time in more than 70 languages. Plus, to help you reach your learning goals, we added a new language practice feature.
We announced Genie 3, a general purpose world AI model. Genie 3 is Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking general purpose world model that can generate diverse, interactive environments from a single text prompt. World models are also a key stepping stone on the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI), since they make it possible to train AI agents in an unlimited curriculum of rich simulation environments. Not only can Genie 3 provide environments to train agents like robots and autonomous systems, but it could also offer new ways to evaluate agents’ performance, and explore their weaknesses. You can listen to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis talk about Genie 3 on the Release Notes podcast.
