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For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Google teams are working on ways to make AI more useful in a variety of areas, including healthcare, crisis management, and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we’re doing a regular roundup of Google’s most recent AI news.
Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from August
a card with the text “The big picture” on it August was bananas. We had an AI Mode in Search expansion, a new line of Pixel hardware that includes our most advanced on-device AI and plenty of other news to round out the month — including a new image editing release in the Gemini app (Nano Banana) and Google DeepMind’s first real-time interactive general-purpose world AI model, Genie 3. We’ve made bunches of AI news this month, including AI to help endangered species, and it’s all focused on our mission of delivering AI products and features in a way that can improve the lives of as many people as possible.
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In Search, we added new agentic features and expanded AI Mode. AI Mode’s new advanced agentic and personalized capabilities mean Google can do more on your behalf and help you get things done. Now, if you’ve opted into the AI Mode experiment in Labs in the U.S., you will see results tailored to your personal preferences, beginning with dining recommendations. Using the new “Share” button, you can even collaborate and share your AI Mode links with friends. We’ve also expanded AI Mode to more than 180 new countries and territories in English.
We rolled out Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Deep Think can be an incredibly powerful tool for complex reasoning and problem solving, and we made it available to Google AI Ultra subscribers. At the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) this year, a similar variation of this model won the gold medal standard! a text card reading “AI to deliver the most powerful, helpful Pixel devices”
We rolled out the best Google AI in Pixel hardware at Made by Google 2025. Our annual hardware event featured the release of our most helpful phones yet, the AI-powered Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, all featuring the Google Tensor G5 chip. Our latest Pixels come with Gemini Nano to power features like Magic Cue, photo editing with text and voice prompts, Gemini Live for a more helpful, natural and visual assistant and more.
And if that seems like a lot of links to click through, just click this one: With our Made by Google notebook, you can have NotebookLM explain our Made by Google announcements with an audio or video overview, and you can even have how-to articles made specifically for you in a matter of seconds. a text card reading “AI to deliver a major creative refresh to your images”
We unveiled a new image model in the Gemini app. The “Nano Banana” image editing model developed by Google DeepMind is currently the model with the highest rating worldwide. Now, it’s in the Gemini app, where you can edit your old photos or create new images. When editing photos of people or even pets, you can keep the same look while changing outfits, blending photos, and changing styles. a text card reading “AI to deliver a more personalized and helpful learning experience”
We made our most advanced AI learning tools available to college students for free. As back to school season kicked off, we made a free one-year subscription to Google’s AI Pro plan available to college students in the U.S. as well as Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil — and more. Students get expanded access to tools Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Research, NotebookLM, Veo 3 and Guided Learning to help foster critical thinking, deepen understanding and improve studying.
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We shared 14 ways Googlers use AI to work smarter. We collected the answers we received from Googlers about how they use AI on a daily basis to generate creativity, produce content, complete tasks like code generation and data analysis, and more. We made our asynchronous coding agent, Jules, available for everyone. Jules was designed to be an autonomous agent that integrates with your repositories, understands your intent, makes a plan and gets to work. After refining Jules in beta with a polished user interface and code fixes, we made it available to support everyone with coding tasks.
We introduced AI-powered live translation and language learning tools in Google Translate. Using advanced AI models, the new live capabilities in Translate make it easier to communicate in real time in more than 70 languages. Additionally, a brand-new feature for language practice has been added to support your learning objectives. a text card reading “AI to deliver world models that can accelerate research”
We announced Genie 3, a general purpose world AI model. Genie 3 is Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking general purpose world model that can generate diverse, interactive environments from a single text prompt. Because they make it possible to train AI agents in an unlimited curriculum of rich simulation environments, world models are also an important stepping stone on the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). Genie 3 may not only provide training environments for agents like robots and autonomous systems, but it may also provide novel methods for assessing agents’ performance and identifying their weaknesses. You can listen to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis talk about Genie 3 on the Release Notes podcast.
