ByteDance launches Lance, a compact 3B-parameter multimodal AI model that handles image and video understanding, generation, and editing in a single unified framework, delivering competitive benchmark performance against larger models while remaining fully open-source on Hugging Face.
Google unveils its biggest Search upgrade in 25 years at I/O, introducing an expanded AI-powered input field accepting text, images, videos, and files, plus new agentic features rolling out globally this summer across nearly 200 countries and 98 languages.
Google unveils AI-powered smart glasses at Google I/O, partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to deliver Gemini-powered voice navigation, real-time translation, and hands-free photo capture, with a fall release on the horizon.
Google launches the Gemini 3.5 model family at I/O 2026, introducing a blazing-fast Flash model four times faster than rivals at half the cost, a personal AI agent called Spark, and a suite of new tools spanning multimodal video, a redesigned app, and expanded desktop support.
Google Search undergoes its biggest redesign in 25 years, now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, featuring AI agents that monitor the web, book reservations on users' behalf, and generate custom interactive apps in real time, with Personal Intelligence expanding to nearly 200 countries across 98 languages for free.
Google launches Street View grounding in Project Genie, letting AI Ultra subscribers transform real-world U.S. locations into fantasy environments like 'Ocean World' or 'Stone Age' for $200 per month.
Google expands its SynthID AI watermarking technology across Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel, and Cloud after hitting 50 million verifications, with new partnerships from OpenAI, Meta, and others signaling a major industry push toward standardized AI content detection.
OpenAI partners with Google DeepMind to embed invisible SynthID watermarks into AI-generated images while launching a public verification tool that lets users detect whether an image was AI-generated, creating a multi-layered content authenticity system.
Google is reinventing its 25-year-old search box with a sweeping AI-powered overhaul now live worldwide, merging AI Overviews and AI Mode into one seamless interface that accepts text, images, videos, and PDFs — and it's already surpassing one billion monthly users with queries doubling every quarter.
NVlabs launches SANA, a groundbreaking open-source AI framework capable of generating stunning 4K images and video up to 100 times faster than competitors like Flux-12B, with multiple model variants, flexible deployment options including low-VRAM laptop support, and a fully open-sourced codebase under the Apache 2.0 license.