Google I/O 2025: If there was ever any doubt about where Google is placing its biggest bets, Sundar Pichai’s keynote at Google I/O 2025 made it crystal clear: artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool — it's the foundation of Google’s future.

When ChatGPT was released, Google tried to match it with the release of Bard, now known as Gemini. It was vastly worse, and many nearly laughed it out of the room. Despite the initial flop, Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) model is quickly closing the gap with competitors,

Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the 2025 I/O developer conference by declaring a “new phase of the platform shift,” as the company unveiled sweeping advances across its AI ecosystem. He said Gemini now processes 480 trillion tokens per month,

Google must expect a response from rivals OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic. Adobe and Canva might be worried, with Google's Veo, Imagen and AI filmmaking tool, Flow.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during a recent All-In podcast episode he sees all of the major tech companies doing well in the AI race, and that there won’t be one clear winner. There are still more companies to be launched that we don’t know about yet—which will create even more competition.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at I/O 2025 that AI Overviews have reached 1.5 billion users across 200 countries, driving a 10% growth in relevant queries. He highlighted its success as one of Search's best launches in a decade.

When asked his biggest regret, Google CEO Sundar Pichai reflected on the company's decision not to acquire Netflix.

Here is an eye-popping stat. “Lens grew 65% year over year, with more than 100 billion visual searches already this year”, Pichai said while onstage at Google I/O 2025.

Google is going to introduce a feature named 'desktop Mode' similar to Samsung's Dex and Motorola's Smart Connect. This new feature has the capacity to turn your smartphone into a computer. It can give you the experience of a PC-like interface on a larger screen.

The latest iteration of the Veo AI produces audio along with the video, including dialogues, ambient background, music videos, and such. The accuracy of dialogues in near-perfect sync with the AI-generated characters in the scenes has worked wonders for parent Alphabet’s shares.