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400 million and counting …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said onstage that Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot app, now has over 400 million monthly active users. Meanwhile, AI Overviews, Google’s AI-powered feature on Google Search that summarizes and synthesizes answers to queries, has reached over 1.5 billion users every month, Pichai added.
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Real-time speech translation coming to Google Meet
Sundar Pichai showcased Google’s real-time speech translation to help break down language barriers, and he gave an example of how it could be useful when booking a vacation rental in South America. Stay tuned for more info, but onstage Pichai said this real-time translation tool will be directly available in Google Meet. English and Spanish translation is now available for subscribers, with more languages rolling out in the next few weeks, he said.
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API is actually Artificial Pokémon Intelligence
At least that is what Sundar Pichai just said. First dad joke of the conference officially logged.
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Sundar brags about Gemini’s LM Arena score
Sundar Pichai kicked off his keynote by bragging about Gemini’s performance on Chatbot Arena, the crowd-sourced benchmark operated by the startup LM Arena. A few weeks ago, Cohere accused LM Arena of giving some companies, including Google, more chances to test their models on Chatbot Arena ahead of release.
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Sundar Pichai takes the stage
Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicks off the show with a nod to the conference opening’s AI generated video. He states: “Every day is a Gemini season at Google.”
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Here we goooo …
The Google I/O 2025 conference has started. We’re expecting lots of AI news, but there will be other stuff too. Right? First onstage is AI generated video!
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Keep up, or …
As the music set closed, Chaz Bear, who is professionally known as Toro y Moi, said, “Music is going towards AI with or without me and it’s my responsibility as an artist to keep up.”
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Toro y Moi is here
Bay Area-based artist and DJ, Toro y Moi, is making beats live onstage here in Mountain View, California. Just minutes before Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage, Toro y Moi is spinning up some psychedelic beats in a tech bro vest. Incredible.
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Could there be some Waymo news at Google I/O?
This post on X, which shows the Google I/O logo and a Waymo robotaxi, was spotted by the team and it seems that Google I/O may produce some news around Waymo, the autonomous vehicle unit under parent company Alphabet. No word yet on what it could be, but stayed tuned.
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Google is vibe coding productivity apps onstage
Image Credits:Maxwell Zeff As attendees fill their seats, Google employees are currently vibe coding onstage. They’re making a to-do list application. Welcome to Google I/O 2025.
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Google I/O 2025 vibe check and the TechCrunch reporter is seated!
Image Credits:Maxwell Zeff As we mentioned earlier, Maxwell Zeff is in the house. And he claims he “got a good seat.” Did he? Time will tell.
In the meantime, Zeff reports that lo-fi beats are playing and there is a “wood grains and rainbow vibe.” I’m not sure that wood grains is a vibe, but hey, I’m not there. Maxwell is. -
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We’re here — and it’s a bluebird Google I/O day
Image Credits:Maxwell Zeff TechCrunch is reporting live from Google I/O 2025! It’s a sunny, blue sky day in Mountain View, California — perfect weather to cannibalize your core Search product with an AI chatbot!
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Google I/O 2025 live coverage: Google AI Ultra, Project Mariner, Gemini app updates, and more
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here.
I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We’re looking forward to plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini.
Stick with us all day as we bring you the latest news from this year’s conference.
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