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From Assistants to Agents: My Take on Google I/O 2026
Google I/O 2026 was the moment Google fully embraced agentic AI. Rather than showing incremental improvements, this year’s announcements reframed Gemini as an ecosystem of models, tools and platforms designed to act on our behalf.
In this post I’ll unpack the key releases, highlight some exceptional projects from Google’s Gemini Live Agent Challenge, and share my perspective on what these advances mean for developers.
The Evolution of Gemini: Omni, Flash 3.5 and Spark
