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Google I/O 2025 Recap: AI, XR & the Wild New World We’re Entering
if 2024 was about AI knocking on the door, 2025 is about Google flinging it wide open and yelling, “Come on in, we’ve got AR glasses and sentient video editors!”
From May 20–21, 2025, at the sun-drenched Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Google dropped more tech revelations than a sci-fi thriller. This wasn’t your average developer conference — it was a full-blown vision board of the AI-powered future, sprinkled with extended reality, creative wizardry, and enough wow-factor to make Tony Stark jealous.
Let’s decode the chaos, innovation, and excitement from I/O 2025 in plain English (with a dash of nerdy spice).
🌟 Gemini 2.5: Your AI Genius Roommate Has Arrived
Gemini 2.5 wasn’t just an upgrade — it was a glow-up. Google introduced Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, faster and brainier versions of their AI model that can reason deeply, debug code, summarize entire novels, and help you create videos or write poems — all in a single breath.
New superpowers include:
- “Thought summaries”: See how the AI…