Top 100 Highlights from Google I/O 2023

100 Highlights from Google I/O 2023

Google I/O 2023 has come to an end with a flurry of product launches and updates. From the keynote to demos and developer talks, there were numerous announcements made. In case you missed anything, here’s a compilation of 100 things unveiled at Google I/O 2023.

Device Satisfaction

1. We expanded our Pixel portfolio by adding the Google Pixel Fold! The Google Tensor G2 CPU, a 7.6-inch display when unfurled, Android’s split-screen capabilities, and many more features are included in our first foldable phone.

2. In addition to popular Pixel Camera features including Real Tone, Magic Eraser, and Night Sight, the Google Pixel Fold also adds some brand-new camera functions, such as the Rear Camera Selfie setting, which produces the most excellent quality selfies ever taken on a Pixel. For selfies, you can even make a fast motion to start a countdown clock.

3. The same gesture employed for the Rear Camera Selfie may be used to start the camera’s timer while the Pixel Fold goes into a tabletop mode for a group selfie. 

4. Also available is the Pixel 7a! The 7a is our toughest A-Series device to date and features the recognizable Pixel camera bar.

5. The primary camera on the new phone has been improved and now has a sensor that is 72% bigger than the Pixel 6a’s, allowing for 44% more light, as well as a brand-new 13-megapixel ultrawide lens. The Pixel 7a possesses Super Res Zoom and Long Exposure for the initial time on any A-Series device.

6. The two new colors are coral and sea. There will be a Sea version of the Pixel Buds A-Series. Coral, Snow, Charcoal, Obsidian, Porcelain, Hazel, and Rose are some of this year’s additional new hardware colors.

7. Google’s Pixel Tab is another option. It boasts an 11-inch view, four inbuilt speakers, and a Tensor G2 CPU, making it a useful gadget.

8. The Pixel Tablet has a companion, the recently released Charging Speaker Dock, that not only charges the tablet but also transforms it into a helpful hands-free home appliance.

9. The very first tablet with built-in Chromecast and one with the Titan M2 encryption chip are both the Pixel Tablet.

10. Porcelain, Hazel, and Rose are three new colors for Google smartphones that are also available on the new Pixel Tablet.

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11. The design team created a fabric for the tablet dock that has a dampened sensation.

12. To maintain you in the center of the frame as well as adapt the lighting while you walk around, Google Meet with the Pixel Tablet employs Tensor’s AI.

13. With 360-degree sceneries like beaches as well as futuristic cities that can shift as you walk and change positions, you can also add a little excitement to your video conversations.

14. The Assistant speech input on the Pixel Tablet is nearly three times quicker than traditional typing thanks to artificial intelligence technologies.

15. The new Pixel Tablet Case, which goes along with the Portable Speaker Dock as well as includes a shiny metal ring support so you can see the tablet from various angles, was one of the Google Pixel Tablet peripherals we unveiled. Additionally, our Built by Google partners revealed additional accessories.

16. The Pixel 7a is available right now, along with preorders for the Pixel Tablet as well as Pixel Fold. If you preorder the Pixel Fold right now, you’ll also receive a free Pixel Watch.

17. A complimentary pair of Pixel Buds from the A-Series or a 50% discount on Pixel Buds Pro is also included with the purchase of the Pixel 7a.

Search, Turbocharged

18. For you to join up and test the goods and concepts we’re researching, we established Search Labs. Both the Google App and Chrome desktop support it. In the upcoming weeks, you may join by tapping the Labs button on Chrome desktop or the Google App.

19. You’ll soon be able to test a brand-new generative AI interface for Search in the United States in Labs (English only at the start), allowing us to take into account your input and gradually enhance the experience.

20. When you select any of these follow-up prompts, you’ll see an additional conversational mode in which you can ask Google questions regarding the subject you’re exploring. The interface will take your keyword queries and provide you AI-powered images of key information to think about with links to dig further and suggested next steps.

21. Google’s Shopping Graph is the foundation for a brand-new generative AI shopping experience. You’ll get a quick overview of important things to think about, items that meet the bill, current reviews, ratings, pricing, and more while looking for a product.

22. Several additional items are being tested at Search Labs as we searched Tips offer advice on how to write better code, as well as Add to Sheets allows you to share a search result right into a spreadsheet.

23. You may soon see a Perspectives view at the very beginning of Search results when you’re looking for anything that may benefit from other people’s experiences. This filter only displays first-person or expert data gathered from forums, social networking sites, and video-sharing groups.

24. We made changes to the way we rank outcomes for Search generally, putting more emphasis on material with particular knowledge and experience.

25. According to a recent statistic we released, 12 billion image searches are now made using Lens each month, a 4x jump in only two years.

Work more efficiently

26. Workspace’s AI capabilities have assisted users in writing more than 180 billion times over the past year.

27. …And that’s only the beginning: With Duet artificial intelligence (AI) for Google Workspace, we’re integrating the strength of generative AI throughout all Workspace apps.

28. Gmail already employs AI to assist you in responding to emails; now, we’re adding the capability to take into account the context of your email thread and make it mobile-friendly.

29. Additionally, we’re integrating generative artificial intelligence into Slides so you can quickly generate visuals from text descriptions.

30. fresh sheets AI solutions can automate categorizing data and aid with event planning and project management, allowing you to track and analyze your data more quickly.

31. We’re launching a feature in Meet that lets you create backdrops for your video conversations.

32. With the inclusion of smart chips, variables, as well as templates that will shortly be automatically weaved into text and provide you with shortcuts for acting directly on a page, assisted authoring in Docs just got much better.

33. We also disclosed modifications to well-liked existing tools and features. You’ll start to notice a new proofread recommendation window with advice for writing simply, avoiding repetition, and adopting a more professional or active voice as the spelling, as well as grammar recommendations in Docs, have been improved.

34. These AI tools pique your interest. We established Workspace Labs so that you could join up to utilize it to test out these new features. Join right away.

35. Our most recent Project Starline prototype is more easily adaptable to many locations because of its simplified design. To handle high-quality 3D data, our most recent prototype leverages a novel AI approach that we created. Additionally, it is more compact and resembles a conventional video conferencing device.

Artificial Intelligence in domestic settings (and while traveling)

36. We introduced Immersive Look for Paths in the Google Maps app so you could see every leg of your trip before you set out, whether you were traveling by bicycle, foot, or car.

37. In the upcoming months, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Berlin, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Miami, New York, Paris, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo, as well as Venice will all start offering immersive views for their routes.

38. Additionally, we are introducing the one-tap deletion of recent searches right from Maps.

39. You may reinvent several parts of your photo with the aid of Magic Editor, an innovative experimental editing feature in Google Photos. For instance, you can move the subject of a photo or turn a gloomy sky into a brilliant blue one.

40. Later this year, we want to offer early accessibility to the Magic Editor to some Pixel phones.

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41. A prototype AI video dubbing tool called Universal Translator assists professionals in translating a speaker’s speech and matching their lip motions, which might greatly aid learning comprehension.

42. Major news! Beginning on May 11, everyone will have access to the redesigned Google Home app.

43. Your Favorites tab now appears when the updated Google Home app launches, and you may reorganize it whenever you like.

44. We’ve introduced vertical video record scrubbing to the Google Home smartphone app so you can quickly and accurately check your camera footage.

45. Additionally, we unveiled Project Tailwind, an AI-driven notebook fueled by your sources and notes.

Google Bard and PaLM

46. PaLM 2, our newest language model, was introduced. It is quicker and more effective than earlier versions, and because it is available in a range of sizes, it is simple to set up for several use cases.

47. More than 25 products that were shown during I/O are powered by PaLM 2, which is also used by several product teams across Google.

48. And the latest PaLM API is powered by PaLM 2.

49. Our health study teams employed PaLM 2 to develop Med-PaLM 2, a version of PaLM 2 that has been tailored for medical expertise to aid in providing answers and condensing key points from a range of thick medical books. We are now investigating multimodal capabilities so that it may combine patient data from imaging, such as a chest x-ray or mammography, to assist patients receive better treatment.

50. Later this summer, we will provide Med-PaLM 2 to a select number of Cloud users for input to discover safe, beneficial use cases.

51. Gemini, the initial model that was built from the bottom up to be multimodal, extremely powerful at various sizes, and effective at connecting with other tools as well as APIs, is now under construction. Even while Gemini is still under training, it is already displaying multimodal skills not seen in any previous models.

52. We released some updates and information on Bard, our project that enables you to work with generative AI, including the Dark theme!

53. Soon, you’ll be able to incorporate photographs into your Bard prompts, which will expand your creative potential in unexpected ways.

54. More than 180 additional nations are now offering the services of Bard in English. Additionally, Bard is now available in Korean and Japanese.

55. By the conclusion of the year, Bard will be accessible in the 40 languages that are most often spoken, allowing more individuals to work together using it in their tongues.

56. To allow more individuals to speak with Bard directly, we also abolished the waitlist.

57. We’re tightening up code citations starting next week. If Bard inserts a block of code, all you have to do is click the annotation, and Bard will highlight the section and provide a link to the source.

58. Soon, Bard will include visuals in its replies, making them more visual and improving your understanding of the material you’re researching.

59. In the future, Bard will be connected not just with Google services but also with well-known applications you already use, such as Khan Academy, Adobe, and Instacart.

Everything Android

60. You may pick from six distinct styles, such as more concise or professional while using Magic Compose with Android, which will be released in beta this summer.

61. You’ll have a tonne of new options to customize your phone when Android 14 launches later this year, such as new lock screen icons and a monochromatic theme option.

62. Emoji Wallpaper will also be available, allowing you to personalize the background with your preferred emoji combinations, designs, and hues.

63. Additionally, Cinematic Wallpaper transforms your favorite photographs into 3D graphics that come to life when you tilt and unlock your device using on-device machine learning networks.

64. Generative AI Wallpaper provides prompts that you may fill out, and Google’s text-to-image diffusion technology will produce unique backgrounds for you to pick from if you’re short in the photo department.

65. To fully utilize the bigger screen on tablets as well as foldable phones, over fifty Google applications have been upgraded.

66. We stated that Wear OS 3 is the world’s fastest-growing smartwatch platform. This year, new watches as well as new app experiences for them, such as WhatsApp and Gmail, will be released.

67. Backup and restore functionality will be included to Wear OS 4 to enable safe data and setting transfers from an old wearable to a new one. Additionally, whatever rights you’ve allowed on the device will instantly transfer across if you’re configuring a watch via your phone.

68. By the end of the year, there will be 200 million automobiles on the road with Android Auto, and there will be twice as many car types with Google built-in.

69. Speaking about automobiles, Waze is now available for all vehicles equipped with Google in the Google Play Store.

70. In collaboration with our partners, we are bringing WebEx out of Cisco, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom to allow you to join planned meetings directly from the display in your car.

71. In the upcoming weeks, Polestar cars will have access to YouTube, and it will soon be accessible from additional manufacturers.

72. To create a new Android-powered immersive XR platform, we’re working with Samsung.

73. With the release of Android 14, you’ll be able to snap and view pictures with vivid colors, sharp shadows, and superb detail.

Protection, assurance, and accountability

74. We unveiled our most recent Safe Browsing API, which employs AI to recognize and warn you of risky websites and files and thwart fraud in their tracks.

75. With a new perspective that makes it simpler to analyze files and determine what you might see as spam, we’re increasing spam safeguards in Google Drive.

76. We’re extending access to the dark web analysis over the coming weeks so anybody with an account on Gmail in the U.S. may check to see whether their Gmail address is listed on the dark web. Previously, this report was only accessible to Google One members in the U.S.

77. Your Android phone’s permissions prompt screen will notify you, starting with GPS coordinates, whenever an app distributes your data with third parties for marketing or advertising reasons. This will give you the option to accept or reject location sharing.

78. In the Google Play Data security section of an app, we’re now including a new “data deletion” option.

79. Adding video material to our material protection API is a significant improvement for kid protection.

80. To lessen the toxicity of online comments, we’re using the Perspective API, created by our Jigsaw investigators on our expansive language models.

81. In our work with AudioLM, we built a classifier that can identify synthetic audio using our own AudioLM algorithm with about 99% accuracy. This indicates that we are also making progress with tools for identifying synthetic audio.

82. We’re introducing a revamped Find My Device app for Android later this summer that make; it simpler to find your devices and things.

83. End-to-end encryption ensures that location information gathered via this Find My Device service cannot be seen by Google or used for other purposes.

84. We’re also introducing unknown tracker warnings for Android later this summer, which will instantly tell you if your mobile device detects that an unidentified Bluetooth tracker is following you.

85. A new feature called About this picture will be available in Search in the upcoming months. It will provide you with crucial data about an image, such as when it was originally indexed, the site on which it first showed up, where else it’s been viewed online, and whether it appears on fact-checking websites.

Solutions for enterprises and developers

86. Vertex AI received three new models from Google Cloud: Codey helps with code production, Chirp, an open-source speech model, delivers voice-to-text accuracy to more than 100 languages, and Imagen supports picture generation and customization.

87. Another recent addition is Duet AI for Google Cloud, a collaborator driven by AI that supports contextual code completion, creates functions in real-time, makes suggestions that are tailored to your code base, helps with code reviews, and more.

88. Our AI-optimized infrastructure, which includes new A3 virtual systems based on NVIDIA’s H100 GPU, powers our Google Cloud AI solutions.

89. Starting now, you can utilize Google’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to assist you get getting started when you build an English Google Play store listing. Simply launch our AI assistant in the Google Play Console, provide a few questions, such as the target demographic and the main subject, and it will produce a suggestion that you can alter, ignore, or use.

90. A freely available hands-free gaming mouse called Project Gameface was announced. It tracks facial landmarks in real-time using our MediaPipe facial Landmark Detection technology, a potent machine-learning tool.

91. Additionally, it is now open-sourced on GitHub.

92. We are introducing the Aerial Monitor API, which enables developers to incorporate aerial footage of a location in Google Maps.

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93. To provide renters a better understanding of a house and its surroundings, Rent. is already utilizing the Aerial Monitor API in its app.

94. Additionally, developers may now provide unique, immersive map views to their own applications and websites with the recently introduced Photorealistic 3D Tiles feature.

95. To make it simpler for you to create stunning, high-quality TV apps, we introduced Compose for TV.

96. A new feature allowing users to stream applications for Android from their mobile device to their Chromebook was also published in beta at the same time as the most recent ChromeOS developments.

97. Additionally, we included a no-code method for developers to customize the look and operation of Wear OS watch screens.

98. A comprehensive tool for learning how to design user-friendly Android interfaces is the recently released Android UI Design Hub.

99. It is now simpler to code, simulate your user’s experience to predict user expectations, and deploy App Actions connections across primary and auxiliary Android devices thanks to the new Application Actions Test Library as well as the Google Assistant extension for Android Studio, which is now also accessible on Wear and Auto.

100. Also, we released the most recent Android 14 beta!

Wrapping Up

Google I/O 2023 brought numerous exciting announcements across various domains, showcasing Google’s commitment to innovation and enhancing user experiences. From device satisfaction and search enhancements to workspace productivity and enterprise solutions, these updates pave the way for a more efficient and feature-rich future.