The latest AI news we announced in January

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 across products, research and more.

Here’s a look back at just some of our AI announcements from January.

We spent our first month of 2025 focused on getting the benefits of AI into your hands — including some of our latest AI breakthroughs from 2024. In a big performance upgrade, we added Gemini 2.0 Flash to the Gemini app, delivering fast responses, stronger performance and more capable help whether you’re brainstorming, learning or writing. And at Galaxy Unpacked 2025 we shared how our conversational assistant, Gemini Live, is becoming more versatile. Gemini Live users on the Samsung Galaxy S24 and S25 series and Pixel 9 devices can now add images, files and YouTube videos to the conversation to help them brainstorm new ideas, organize their thoughts or gain new understandings of complex topics. And we made Circle to Search more helpful than ever, quite literally putting AI into the palm of your hand.

We shared how Google AI can help educators and students in 2025. We recently joined thousands of educators and students at BETT in London, Europe’s biggest educational technology exhibition, and shared ways that students and teachers can use Google AI tools to accelerate education, learning and retention. This month, we also highlighted how startups are using AI to tailor learning and improve educational outcomes.

We announced that Google Cloud’s Automotive AI Agent is arriving for Mercedes-Benz. Google Cloud unveiled Automotive AI Agent, a new way for automakers to create helpful agentic experiences for drivers. Mercedes-Benz is among the first automakers planning to implement the product, which goes beyond current vehicle voice control to allow people to have natural conversations and ask queries while driving, like “Is there an Italian restaurant nearby?”

We shared five ways NotebookLM Plus can help your business. NotebookLM is a tool for understanding anything — including synthesizing complex ideas buried in deep research. This month we made our premium NotebookLM Plus available in more Google Workspace plans to help businesses and their employees with everything from sharing team notebooks and centralizing projects, to streamlining onboarding and making learning more engaging with Audio Overviews.

We announced new AI tools to help retailers build gen AI search and agents. The National Retail Federation kicked off the year with their annual NRF conference, where Google Cloud showed how AI agents and AI-powered search are already helping retailers operate more efficiently, create personalized shopping experiences and use AI to get the latest products and experiences to their customers.

Three Google leaders teamed up for a deep dive into Google’s AI progress in 2024. In the past year, we accelerated our work to boldly and responsibly advance the frontiers of AI and all the ways it can benefit humanity. This month, Demis Hassabis, James Manyika and Jeff Dean published their retrospective on a year that included major scientific advances (and a Nobel Prize!), AI-enabled product updates, progress in robotics and hardware, and new models built for the agentic era.

We issued an open call for applications to the next Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI. Generative AI has the potential to help solve many of humanity's most pressing challenges — if people have the training, tools and resources to unlock its potential. That’s why Google.org launched the six-month Generative AI Accelerator program for nonprofits and other organizations to get the support they need. The latest call for applications opened with $30 million in funding: Apply by February 10, 2025 at g.co/Accelerator/GenAI.