At its annual I/O developer conference held in Mountain View, California, Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new default model for its Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, alongside a sweeping redesign of the Search interface that introduces agentic capabilities to the company's flagship product.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
<cite index="2-5">Google described Gemini 3.5 Flash as the first in its latest series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.</cite> <cite index="2-7">The model is generally available through Google Antigravity, the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, and Android Studio.</cite> According to benchmark figures the company published, <cite index="2-10">Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks including Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo), and MCP Atlas (83.6%).</cite>
Google also previewed Gemini Omni, a multimodal video-generation model, and a forthcoming Gemini 3.5 Pro tier. <cite index="4-15">CEO Sundar Pichai reported in the keynote that the Gemini app now serves more than 900 million people every month across 230 countries and more than 70 languages, up from 400 million at the same time last year, with daily queries growing sevenfold in that period.</cite> <cite index="4-16">Google processed 500 billion tokens per day in March, a number that has since climbed past three trillion daily, and the company's capital expenditures for the year will reach between $180 billion and $190 billion, compared with $31 billion in 2022.</cite>
Search redesign
<cite index="1-5">Google described the changes as the biggest upgrade to its Search box in over 25 years, reimagining the interface around AI.</cite> <cite index="1-7,1-8">The box dynamically expands to give users space to describe what they need and uses AI-powered suggestions that go beyond autocomplete.</cite> <cite index="4-7">The larger search box accepts text, images, files, videos, and Chrome tabs simultaneously, applying AI reasoning across all of them.</cite>
A central feature is generative user interface output. <cite index="1-9,1-10,1-11,1-12">Google is integrating Antigravity and the agentic coding capabilities of Gemini 3.5 Flash directly into Search, allowing it to build responses in custom formats on the fly, assembling components such as interactive visuals, tables, graphs, or simulations in real time.</cite> <cite index="1-13">These generative UI capabilities will be available to all Search users this summer at no cost.</cite>
The redesign also introduces persistent information agents. <cite index="1-14,1-15,1-16">For ongoing tasks such as planning a wedding or managing a home move, Search can build custom dashboards or trackers and send synthesized updates with the ability to take action.</cite> <cite index="1-19">Information agents will launch first for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.</cite> <cite index="1-20,1-21">Google is also expanding agentic booking in Search to local experiences and services, bringing together pricing and availability with direct links to complete bookings through the user's chosen provider.</cite>
Distribution and pricing
<cite index="4-4,4-5">Google introduced a new $100-per-month Ultra plan with 5x higher usage limits in the Gemini app and Antigravity compared with the AI Pro plan, plus 20 TB of cloud storage, while the previous $250 Ultra plan is dropping to $200.</cite> <cite index="4-12">The new AI-powered Search features are built directly into the core experience and cannot be disabled,</cite> a design choice that has drawn criticism from analysts who argue the changes will further reduce traffic to the open web.
The announcements position Google's agentic and search-integrated strategy against competing assistants and search products from rivals.