All the Big AI Announcements from Google I/O 2025 🔥

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today’s edition, we’re recapping all the top AI announcements from Google I/O 2025, a highly anticipated event packed with updates across Gemini, Project Astra, Search, and everything else the tech giant is working on.

Let’s get started!

Read Time: 4.5 min

Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025

• AI Tutorial: ‘Try on’ clothes with Google AI

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

GOOGLE

Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025

Google’s biggest developer conference of the year didn’t disappoint, with new product announcements and updates related to Android, Chrome, Google Search, Gemini, and Gmail. Here are all the things announced at Google I/O 2025.

• AI Mode in Google Search

Google has begun rolling out a new “AI mode” tab to all users in the US, allowing them to search the web using its Gemini AI chatbot.

Google will test new features in AI mode this summer, including deep search and shopping capabilities.

• Project Starline is now Google Beam

Originally a 3D video chat booth, it has been rebranded as Google Beam and will soon launch inside an HP-branded device, using a light field display and six cameras to create a 3D image of the person you’re chatting with on a video call.

• Near real-time language translation in Google Meet

This feature utilizes AI to provide instant translations during meetings, allowing participants to communicate seamlessly across different languages

• Gmail gets a major AI upgrade

Smart replies in Gmail are now more personalized, using info from your inbox and Google Drive to draft more accurate responses that match your tone.

Gemini can also handle tasks like deleting or archiving emails and will even detect when you're setting up a meeting and prompt you to share your booking page.

• Gemini Live is now available to everyone

Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing, is now free on Android and iOS for everyone, so you can point your phone at anything and talk it through.

• Imagen 4 and Veo 3

The new image generator model offers improved text generation and supports new image formats.

Google also launched Veo 3, an AI video generator that enables simultaneous video and sound generation, while Veo 2 now comes with tools like camera controls and object removal.

• Launch of Flow: AI Filmmaking App

It utilizes Veo, Imagen, and Gemini to create eight-second video clips based on text prompts or images. It includes scene-builder tools, allowing users to stitch clips together and produce longer AI-generated videos.

• Gemini 2.5 gets a “Deep Think” mode

This enhanced reasoning mode is designed for complex tasks such as advanced mathematics and coding. It’s capable of considering “multiple hypotheses before responding” and will only be available to trusted testers first.

• Xreal and Google are teaming up on Project Aura

A new pair of smart glasses that use the Android XR platform for mixed-reality devices. Details are still limited, but they’ll feature Gemini integration, a wide field of view, and built-in cameras and microphones.

• Google’s ‘universal AI assistant’ is getting more proactive

Project Astra can now complete tasks on your behalf, even without a direct prompt, and can choose to speak based on what it sees.

• Google adds Gemini to Chrome

Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will be able to use the Gemini button in Chrome to clarify complex information or summarize content on any webpage.

In the future, Gemini will work across multiple tabs and navigate websites on your behalf.

• A new $250 per month “AI Ultra” plan

Google's new subscription offers access to the company’s most advanced AI models and higher usage limits across apps like Gemini, Flow, and more. It also includes early access to Gemini in Chrome and Project Mariner.

• Google’s new tool uses AI to create app interfaces

Available on Google Labs, "Stitch" can generate interfaces using selected themes and a description.

You can also incorporate wireframes, rough sketches, and screenshots of other UI designs to guide Stitch’s output.

• Password Updates in Chrome

Later this year, Chrome will be able to offer password updates if it detects that your password’s been compromised.

The browser will be able to “generate a strong replacement” and automatically update it on supported websites.

TOGETHER WITH PACASO

Top investors are buying this “unlisted” stock

When the team that co-founded Zillow and grew it into a $16B real estate leader starts a new company, investors notice. That’s why top firms like SoftBank invested in Pacaso.

Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso’s streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties – revamping a $1.3T market.

By handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, Pacaso has already made $110m+ in gross profits.

Now, after 41% gross profit growth last year, they recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO. But the real opportunity is now, at the unlisted stage.

Until May 29, you can join Pacaso as an investor for just $2.80/share.

Invest before the window closes.

_{This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals. Under Regulation A+, a company has the ability to change its share price by up to 20%, without requalifying the offering with the SEC.}

AI Tutorial

‘Try on’ clothes with Google AI

Google is testing a feature that lets users virtually try on garments using their own photo. It uses an AI model that “understands the human body and the nuances of clothing.”

1. Go to Search Labs and opt into the “try on” experiment.

2. Browse your style: When you’re shopping for shirts, pants or dresses on Google, simply tap the "try it on" icon on product listings.

3. Upload a full-length photo of yourself. For best results, ensure it's a full-body shot with good lighting and fitted clothing.

4. In just a moment, you will see how the garment looks on you.

5. Save or share your look with friends.

AI Tools to check out

💡 Napkin: Turns your text into visuals so sharing your ideas is quick and effective.

📷 Pixyer: AI background generator for professional product photos.

👉 MaxAI: Chat with any webpage.

⭐ Kvistly: AI-powered quiz maker.

✍ Athena AI: Transform your study experience with AI-powered tools

AI Findings/Resources

🤖 Humanoid robots are training for the world’s first MMA-style “Mech Combat Arena.”

🤔 The AI layoffs begin?

📐 We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

😱 I told AI to make me a protein. Here’s what it came up with.

👉 You can get free AI skills training from Microsoft for a few more days.

The latest in AI and Tech

Codex is now available in the ChatGPT iOS app

Setting up Codex on the web is the first step. After that, users will see Codex available in the ChatGPT app.

Apple to open its AI models to developers

According to Bloomberg, the aim is to get them to use Apple’s models in their own apps.

Most AI chatbots can be fooled into giving dangerous info

A recent study led by Prof. Lior Rokach and Dr. Michael Fire at Ben Gurion University reveals that most AI chatbots can be easily "jailbroken" to bypass safety controls, enabling them to dispense dangerous and illegal information.

Tencent introduces Hunyuan Game

The company describes it as “the first industrial-grade AIGC engine built for game production.”

That’s a wrap!

Thanks for sticking with us to the end! Let’s stay connected on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Not subscribed yet? Sign up here and send it to a colleague or friend!

See you in our next edition!

Gina 👩🏻‍💻