Google's I/O 2025 developer conference has unveiled a comprehensive suite of AI innovations, with AI Mode in Search now rolling out to all US users. This powerful search experience breaks down complex queries into subtopics and conducts multiple simultaneous searches, providing more comprehensive results than traditional Google searches.
For users seeking even more thorough responses, Google is introducing Deep Search capabilities that can issue hundreds of searches simultaneously, reason across disparate information sources, and create expert-level, fully-cited reports in minutes—potentially saving hours of research time. The company is also integrating Project Astra's capabilities into Search through a new feature called Search Live, allowing users to have real-time conversations about what they see through their camera.
On the model front, Google has made Gemini 2.5 Flash available to everyone through the Gemini app, with plans to release it to developers in Google AI Studio and enterprises in Vertex AI by early June. The upcoming Gemini 2.5 Pro version will feature Deep Think, an enhanced reasoning mode specifically designed for complex mathematics and coding problems. Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro now leads on WebDev Arena and LMArena benchmarks, offering enhanced coding and web app building tools with up to a 1 million token window for long context understanding.
A significant focus of the conference was on security improvements. Google released a white paper titled "Lessons from Defending Gemini Against Indirect Prompt Injections," outlining their strategic approach to tackling indirect prompt injections that can make AI tools targets for attacks. These security enhancements protect against threats where malicious instructions are embedded into data that an AI model retrieves. Google's new security approach has significantly increased Gemini's protection rate against such attacks during tool use, making Gemini 2.5 their most secure model family to date.
The Gemini app has reached a significant milestone with over 400 million monthly active users, with Google reporting a 45% increase in usage among those using Gemini 2.5 Pro. According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Gemini 2.5 Flash has been particularly popular with developers who appreciate its speed and low cost, while improving across key benchmarks for reasoning, multimodality, code, and long context understanding. The company is positioning these advancements as part of a broader effort to create more intelligent, secure, and capable AI systems that can understand and interact with the world in increasingly sophisticated ways.