AI to steal the show at Google I/O 2025

Google is going big on artificial intelligence (AI) at I/O 2025, its annual developer conference, which kicks off on May 20 in Mountain View, California. Chief executive Sundar Pichai, DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and other top executives are expected to unveil major updates, with AI once again front and centre.

What to expect

The company’s Gemini AI models are set to take the limelight, with the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro likely to be a headline moment. Other AI tools, including DeepMind’s real-time reasoning engine Project Astra and…