Google I/O 2025: How to watch and what the event schedule tells us

Google’s keynote description is vague: “Discover how we’re furthering our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

AI

However, given the announcements already made this year, we expect artificial intelligence to be the focal point of the event. At last year’s I/O, AI was also the crown jewel of the event, with a slew of AI-related announcements, including Gemini 1.5 Flash, Veo, Imagen 3, and Google’s mobile platform, Android.

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Android 16

Similarly, this year, you can expect to learn more about the new features on Android 16, which will likely feature a myriad of new AI capabilities, updates to Gemini, Google Workspace, Google Search, and maybe even a new large language model.

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Agents

AI agents have been the hottest topic in the AI space, and we can expect Google to add more to its current agent feature lineup. At the moment, this includes its Google Research feature, which can search the web for you and compile it into a detailed report, and Gems, Google’s custom AI agents.

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XR headset

If Google follows last year’s precedent, it will hold off on hardware announcements. However, the company may update us on its highly anticipated XR headset, which it is developing in partnership with Samsung. Google I/O is notorious for throwing surprises, so it is a good rule of thumb to expect something no one is talking about.

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