When the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai goes on stage at the developer conference Google I / O 2025 tomorrow (May 20) to pronounce its opening remarks, expect two letters to dominate the discussion – AI.
Artificial intelligence takes a large part of the emphasis on Google these days, with AI features arriving through several products, AI projects on AI capturing a large part of the public’s attention and predictions on the future of AI taking many public statements of the company.
And it will be full of display on Google E / S of this year, which begins Tuesday and takes place on Wednesday.
In fact, the E / S coverage delivered by Pichai and other Google leaders to open the figures of the Tuesday conference to be so focused on AI that Android – once the star of this type of event – has been avoided on the side. Google has already given us an overview of the state of its mobile software last week during a separate Android event that broadcast online.
Do you want an audience in person? It was better to be on AI these days.
This year, the Google-Heavy E / S will be a welcome event for anyone enthusiastic about the prospect of artificial intelligence, in particular if Keynote offers brand demos from Google new technologies presenting exactly what the company introduces.
But if you are lukewarm about the fascination of the technological industry for AI – or skeptical about the promised advantages – Tuesday’s presentation has the prospect of resembling an endless Slog.
And I’m afraid to find myself in the last side of things.
Perhaps years of media threshing AI have let me blase, especially because I test many mobile AI features on phones that promise to change the situation to prove to be only anything but. Or maybe all the very real advances of AI have not yet translated as something that changes the way I interact with the devices that surround me. But for me, the demos of AI are starting to take the feeling of an evening in a particularly disappointing theme restaurant – it’s a meal with a lot of sizzling, but not a lot of steak.
There is also the crawling suspicion that companies pour these resources into AI so as not to improve things for you and me, but to improve their own results. Certainly, the news that Microsoft cuts 2,000 jobs Because it increases by turning to AI to manage tasks like coding does not make me comfortable on the motivations that take place here.
I hope that in the middle of all the demos of AI, someone google takes the time not only to explain the “what”, but also the “how” and “why”.
It should not be so. I hope that in the middle of all the demos, announcements and disclosure of the AI, someone at Google takes the time not only to explain the “what”, but also the “how” and “why” of the things he is talking about.
Yes, you have just developed an AI model that will accelerate a particular task or add an AI agent to a product that did not. But how ultimately does that benefit people who use your product? Why do I need this particular advance when I got along perfectly without it?
If Google E / S tackles this part of the presentation, then all the Dimes of AI will be much more interesting. And if not, well, I can’t imagine feeling more jaded than now.
In the meantime, here is an overview of how you can follow Google E / S and what you are likely to see if you do.
Google I / S 2025: When is it and how can you look at it?
Google I / O 2025 begins this Tuesday, May 20 and lasts two days. As Google has done in recent years, it has welcomed the conference of developers at the Shoreline amphitheater, an outdoor place that was walking from the company Mountain View of the company, in California.
Google is throwing things on Tuesday with a keynote that starts at 1 p.m. he / 10 a.m. PT / 6 h BST. You can watch a live flow from the cover as well as Google Google sessions from the event website. Google also has A live flow on YouTube configured for the Keynote of E / S.
In addition to the main coverage on Tuesday, there is also A developer keynote Scheduled at 4.30 p.m. he / 1:30 p.m. PT / 9:30 p.m. BST. This event generally tackles the main event in detail – at certain times in eye detail levels if you are not a developer – although there may also be additional announcements on added to developers with existing Google products.
Google IO 2025: What is on the agenda
The main keynote and the developer Keynote dominate the first day of the Google E / S, with other summary sessions which is new on various Google products like Chrome, Google Play, Android and more. The second day starts in particular on developer tools.
However, just a look at The Google I / O 2025 agenda reveals how part of the AI will play in this year’s event, with many sessions speaking of Google’s efforts in this area. This is why he does not really go out on a member to expect many ads from AI on Tuesday.
AI news
Google is famous for its I / O presentations with a lot of surprise announcements and demos. Several times, I have been in the public during an E / O speech while Google shows something like a voice assistant who can place restaurant reservations on your behalf or photo editing tools fueled by AI that no one saw arriving in advance.
Project Astra was one of these E / S announcements from last year. It is a universal AI assistant who can see what you see while acting on vocal entrances at the same time. It initially takes place as part of Gemini Live, but it is quite clear that it will appear in other future products like Smart Lunes.
To this end, I expected a sort of Astra Update and Demo project when opening E / S. And this is one time when Google gave us advice on what we should expect – how to explain the end of last week and the Android chief Sameer Samat to tease fascinating demos to come to E / S while putting a pair of sunglasses very well?
AI news will not stop with the Astra project. Earlier this month, Google published Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (E / S Edition) as update of the Gemini AI model. This is a nice version focused on developers by focusing on coding and creating interactive web applications, which resembles Catnip for people who frequent E / S. I was waiting for more on this particular version with a series of other ads related to Gemini.
A few days ago, Information reported That Google has shown employees an AI agent aimed at the development of software. More specifically, the AI tool is designed to identify bugs and security defects in software. Again, it looks like something that would interest E / S participants, although the information said that it is not clear how ready to be ready for public consumption.
One day before Google E / S, Google has published a native version of Notebooklm, the research tool powered by the company, for Android as well as iOS devices. We do not know if Google spends time summarizing what the self -proprietary can do in mobile form, but it looks like one of these announcements with which the company deals in advance to clean the scene for more important news.
Android XR
Do not expect all Android mentions to be banned from E / S. The Android show spent very shortly on Android XR, the platform announced at the end of last year that Google was developing with contributions from Samsung and Qualcomm. I imagine that we will know more about Android XR and the products it could work on.
In fact, Samsung has already teased such a product – a helmet called Project Moohan. Also presented at the end of last year, the Moohan project was light on the details to this point, although a release date in 2025 was essentially confirmed. More concrete details on the Moohan project seem to be more suitable for a Samsung event, but I would not exclude an appearance or a demo to the E / S.
More specifically, I expect certain details on other products using Android XR, whether helmets or smart glasses. And given the news of last week according to which Gemini would find his way on more products, a demo of the way an assistant powered by AI would work with a device based on Android XR seems a lot in the cards.
Other possibilities
In the same article where the information has reported an agent of potential AI for the development of software, the point of sale also said that Google could show a potential rival in Pinterest at E / S. The apparently developing Google version allows people to search for images for design inspiration and record it in files.
While last week’s Android event discussed changes in the upcoming interface on Android 16, it did not reveal a specific release date for the software update. Google Samat said that an update would have come to Pixel devices in June, although it may be that Google could have more to say about its Android 16 to I / S launch calendar.
One thing I don’t expect on Google I / O 2025 is a kind of material ad. Although Google used its developer conference to launch new phones before, it has already published the Pixel 9A, while Pixel 10 flagship products should not arrive before the end of the summer.
