Google I/O 2023 Keynote Live Blog + News Hub: Android 14, Pixel, and AI

I/O 2023 kicks off today as Google’s biggest event of the year to highlight what’s new for users and developers alike. This edition is especially important given the AI-focused tech landscape. You can also expect Pixel announcements and updates to Android 14.

How to stream Google I/O 2023

I/O 2023 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California starts with a two-hour keynote led by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. GMT. There’s a limited live audience, and you can stream the event live on YouTube.

Live Blog (Reload & scroll down for continuous updates…)

• The I/O Pre-show will be live at 9:30 a.m. PT, but there’s some AI music playing right now on the livestream

• Clearing/cleaning the stage after the bird

• Google I/O 2023 has kicked off
• “Making AI helpful for everyone” is the theme

• Pichai emphasizing that Google has been working on AI for a long time
• For example: Gmail Smart Reply > Smart Compose > Help me write (generative AI)
• Google Maps: AI stitching together panoramic Street View > Immersive View
• Immersive View for Routes is coming soon, 15 cities by end of year

• Google Photos ‘Magic Editor’ uses AI to make drag-and-drop photoshop

• 6 products with 2 billion users
• How Google is helping everyone with AI: “Improve knowledge and learning, Boosting creativity and productivity, Enabling others to innovate, Build and deploy responsibly”
• “Gemini” is a next-gen model from Google DeepMind with multimodal capabilities
• PaLM 2 is faster, reasons better, and powers 25 Google products
• Google will add metadata and watermarks to all of its AI-generated images
• Crowd pleaser:

• Google Bard drops waitlist in 180 countries, adds dark theme, Gmail and Docs export
• Google branding generative AI in Gmail, Workspace as ‘Duet AI’
• labs.withgoogle.com
• Generative AI is coming to Google Search and it will appear at the top of the page as an “AI-powered snapshot” with a different light blue background. Google will list follow-up questions that launches a new conversational mode
• “People will value the input of other people”

• The new conversational mode preserves context and lets you scroll down to quickly see search results
• It’s officially called the “Search Generative Experience” (SGE)
• “Search, supercharged” is how Google positions these updates

• Google will mark its AI-generated images, show labels in Search

• Google unveils ‘Codey,’ programming-focused generative AI model
• Google’s ‘Project Tailwind’ is an AI notebook that helps with study and more
• Universal Translator: To change lips in translations
• Android’s immersive XR partnership with Samsung coming later this year

• Google makes a run at Apple for not adopting RCS
• Google Messages gaining AI-based ‘Magic Compose’
• Android launching ‘Find My Device network’ for tracker tags, headphones, more
• Android 14 adding lockscreen clocks and shortcuts, gen AI wallpapers

• Review: Pixel 7a affordably delivers on every promise of the Pixel series
• Google Pixel Tablet costs $499, available June 20
• Google Pixel Fold goes official for $1,799, ships June 27 with free Pixel Watch
• Google announces Wear OS 4, Gmail and Calendar for watches, more

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