Google’s vision for a world assisted by AI became more clear on yesterday as the tech giant announced a wide range of updates for its generative AI capabilities across various software and hardware devices. 

At its annual developer conference Google I/O, the company debuted ways to use AI agents for everything from searching online and offline worlds to creating content and performing tasks. Powered by its Gemini family of AI models and others, Google unveiled new AI models for various tasks to help make AI faster, more efficient and potentially more private. Other upgrades included allowing for larger amounts of information digested by AI and new ways for its platforms to process video, audio, images and text.

Separately, Google debuted new ways to create and edit video through a new AI video model called Veo. It also touted ways to create music through its Music AI Sandbox, which Google created in collaboration with YouTube and major artists like Björn (from ABBA) and Wyclef Jean. While Veo will compete with rival platforms like Runway and OpenAI’s Sora, the music feature puts it up against apps like Suno AI that have become increasingly popular. 

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