Google turns Gemini into a proactive AI agent
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The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) unveiled its newest AI model family during its annual Google I/O conference on Tuesday. Called Gemini 3.5, the company said the models combine frontier intelligence with the ability to perform actions via AI agents.
Google held its annual Google I/O event today, launching new AI products and giving us a look at what's coming in the near future. Google I/O is Google's equivalent of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference,
Google didn't forget AI creators in its latest round of Gemini announcements as part of Google I/O. The company just officially revealed Gemini Omni, a new model that can "create anything from any input — starting with video,
Pichai added that the model is “in a league of its own” when it comes to combining speed with raw intelligence, running over four times faster than GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI and Anthropic’s current frontier models.