Releases

Google begins broad availability of Imagen 3 through ImageFX and later expands access through Gemini and Vertex AI.

Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.

Google releases ShieldGemma, open safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 for filtering model inputs and outputs.

Google releases Gemma 2, led by a 27B model with improved performance and efficiency.

Google launches AI Overviews in the United States, integrating generative summaries and supporting web links into Search.

Google introduces Imagen 3 with improved photorealism, prompt understanding and text rendering.

Google announces Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, with major gains in compute performance and energy efficiency.

Google DeepMind demonstrates Project Astra, a real-time multimodal assistant prototype that perceives and reasons across continuous context.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo, a high-definition generative video model with cinematic controls.

Google releases PaliGemma, an open vision-language model for image-text tasks.

Google expands Gemini 1.5 Pro to a two-million-token context window in private preview.

Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a fast and efficient multimodal model with a one-million-token context window.

Google DeepMind launches AlphaFold Server for free research access to AlphaFold 3 predictions.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 for predicting structures and interactions across biomolecules.

Google releases CodeGemma variants for code completion, code generation and instruction following.

Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, an instructable agent that follows natural-language directions across multiple 3D environments.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie, a generative interactive environment model trained from unlabelled internet videos.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Code Assist, evolving Duet AI for Developers into a Gemini-powered coding assistant.

Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B open models with weights and responsible AI tooling.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a mixture-of-experts architecture and a one-million-token context window.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra becomes available to consumers through the new Gemini Advanced subscription.

Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches the Gemini mobile experience and introduces Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

Google Research introduces AMIE, a research AI system optimized for diagnostic medical dialogue.

Google makes Imagen 2 available to Cloud customers through Vertex AI for enterprise image generation.