What's new? Google released Nano Banana 2, a model using real-time web data to generate images with text; it is in Gemini, Google Search, Vertex AI and 141 countries with 8 languages;

What's new? Google adds Gemini API tooling that joins built-in tools with custom functions in one call; cross-tool context circulation and unique response IDs share outputs;

What's new? Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is available via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio for real time voice and vision agents; it cuts latency and isolates speech in 90+ languages;

What's new? Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, a budget tool for video creation using text and image video; Veo 3.1 Fast becomes cheaper on April 7 for high-volume projects;

What's new? Gemma 4 from Google is open under Apache 2.0 for on-device tasks; e2b, e4b, 26b and 31b variants run offline on varied hardware;

Google is preparing a wider launch of Skills, reusable instruction sets for Gemini, with new evidence pointing to AI Studio as the next area for expansion.

What's new? Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is a reasoning model that gives robots spatial and physical sense; it reads analog instruments and supports task planning via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio;

What's new? Google launched two research agents Deep Research and Deep Research Max via its Gemini API; they produce reports with native charts from diverse online and proprietary data;

Google I/O 2026 launches May 19 with keynotes, reveals on Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni, a new Gemini UI, and tools like Spark, AI Studio app, and more!

What's new? Nano Banana 2 Lite is a cheap text-image model via Gemini API on Search and Photos; Gemini Omni Flash is in preview for 10s video generation from text, images and clips;