Google Unveils ‘Agentic Era’ with Gemini 3.5, Antigravity, and AI-Powered Consumer Tools

Google is stepping boldly into what it calls the “agentic era” of AI, unveiling a suite of new AI tools, products, and infrastructure upgrades at its Google I/O 2026 developer conference in Mountain View, California. CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized the company’s shift toward bringing autonomous AI agents directly to consumers, building on years of enterprise and developer-focused innovations.

The company highlighted rapid adoption of its AI ecosystem, reporting token processing growth from 9.7 trillion to over 3.2 quadrillion per month, with more than 8.5 million developers now leveraging Google’s AI models. Consumer products powered by Gemini AI are also booming: AI Overviews in Search reaches 2.5 billion monthly users, AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, and the Gemini app now boasts 900 million active users generating over 50 billion AI images.

Among the key announcements:
Ask YouTube: AI-powered video discovery for navigating long videos efficiently, starting U.S. testing this year.
Docs Live: Voice-driven document creation and editing, rolling out this summer, with similar features coming to Gmail and Keep.
Gemini 3.5 Flash: A faster, more intelligent AI model outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro and other frontier models, aimed at cutting enterprise AI costs.
Antigravity 2.0: A desktop platform for managing autonomous AI agents.

Gemini Spark: A personal AI agent handling long-running background tasks across Chrome, email, and chat.
Information Agents in Search: Continuously gathering insights and performing tasks on users’ behalf.
Additional AI tools for daily use, research, and even smart eyewear.

Supporting this expansion, Google plans $190 billion in annual capital expenditure in 2026, focusing on custom silicon and its TPU 8t and TPU 8i chips. The company aims to make Gemini the centerpiece of its AI ecosystem as global competition in artificial intelligence accelerates.