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Google I/O 2026 is built around agents
Google’s keynote moved from AI tools to agents that keep working in the background
Key facts
- Date
- 19–20 May 2026
- Era
- The agentic age
- Interest
- Events
- Threads
- Model wars, Agents
- Where
- Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View
- Models
- Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Omni; 3.5 Pro promised for the following month
- Agents
- Gemini Spark, Antigravity 2.0 with a CLI and SDK
- Scale
- Gemini app: over 900 million monthly users
At Google I/O in Mountain View, chief executive Sundar Pichai launched Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark, a personal agent (an AI that carries out tasks for you) that runs around the clock. Google also released Antigravity 2.0, a desktop home for running several coding agents in parallel, and said the Gemini app had passed 900 million monthly users.
Sources
- Google, I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era, 2026-05-19
- Google, 100 things we announced at I/O 2026, 2026-05-20
- 9to5Google, Google I/O 2026 Keynote live blog, 2026-05-19