{"id":108986,"date":"2025-05-17T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108986\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:16:08","slug":"google-i-o-2025-will-be-an-ai-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/108986\/","title":{"rendered":"Google I\/O 2025 will be an AI show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Android is getting its biggest visual update in years<\/a>, and rather than unveiling it for the first time at its big annual developer conference, Google announced Material Three Expressive at a pre-show event broadcast on YouTube<\/a> the week before. If a major design language shift for the world\u2019s most popular mobile OS doesn\u2019t qualify as a headliner at I\/O, then what does? You guessed it: AI.<\/p>\n

We expect Google to talk all about Gemini during I\/O, which kicks off on Tuesday, and how it\u2019s improving it and bringing it to products in areas that consumers will see even more.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve paid attention to the past couple of I\/O keynotes, this won\u2019t be a surprise. Android was barely mentioned in 2023<\/a>, and CEO Sundar Pichai said AI so many times that we lost count<\/a>. Last year\u2019s keynote was more of the same, except that Pichai saved us some trouble and counted mentions of AI for us. All of this reflects the very obvious, inescapable shift that Google and every other tech company have made recently to pump out AI features at a breakneck pace.<\/p>\n

But in a way, less news about the newest Android OS at I\/O is actually a good thing.<\/p>\n

Google has made a big effort in recent years to bring new features to more phones \u2014 even if they aren\u2019t running the latest OS. Companies like Samsung and Motorola roll out new OS versions on their own schedules, so adding new features through Google Play and app updates means they\u2019ll reach people faster. One key criticism of Android<\/a> in previous years was slow feature rollouts that often entirely failed to reach many users. Google also adopted a new schedule this year<\/a> for Android 16, moving to a major release in Q2 and a minor release in Q4, which should help more devices take advantage of new features.<\/p>\n

If this year\u2019s I\/O really is an AI show, then there\u2019s a risk it\u2019s going to feel like one we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

The past two years of software and hardware from seemingly every consumer tech company have been nonstop AI pep rallies. We\u2019ve seen a lot of previews of features that are supposedly just around the corner. Then, when it\u2019s time to actually ship them\u2026 well, ask Apple how that\u2019s going<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To Google\u2019s credit, it has certainly shipped lots of AI features. The company has a lot of surfaces for it, too \u2014 from the XR platform we\u2019re expecting to hear more about (that\u2019s the glasses it has teased several times), to Chrome, Gmail, and Meet. There\u2019s a lot of ground to cover.<\/p>\n

I get the feeling, though, that we\u2019re reaching a tipping point, one where promises of all the time and effort that AI will save us are wearing a little thin. But if nothing else, I appreciate that Google went out of its way to give Android time to shine before the big show \u2014 rather than relegating it to a handful of mentions between AI feature updates.<\/p>\n