100 things we announced at I/O 2026

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100 things we announced at I/O 2026

Google is expanding Google Antigravity with a new desktop app, CLI, SDK and managed agent tools, while also adding new features to Google AI Studio, Chrome DevTools and subscription plans. The updates are aimed at developers and businesses building with Gemini models and agent-based workflows.

Google Antigravity 2.0 is a new standalone desktop application that serves as a central home for agent interaction. Google says users can orchestrate multiple agents in parallel, such as having one agent code a website while another generates brand assets.

Antigravity CLI is designed for terminal users and lets people create new agents without a graphical user interface. Antigravity SDK provides programmatic access to the same agent harness used by Google’s products and can be customized and hosted on a user’s own infrastructure.

Google also said it is launching native voice support for Gemini audio models, along with integration across Android, Firebase and Google AI Studio. The company described the new Antigravity as agent-first, with core primitives including subagents, hooks and asynchronous task management. It said Gemini 3.5 Flash has been co-optimized with the Antigravity agent harness.

For enterprises, Google Antigravity can be connected directly to Google Cloud projects, using the same enterprise terms. Existing Gemini Enterprise customers will soon see Antigravity rolled out in the coming months.

In Google AI Studio, a new app is coming soon that will let users capture an idea on the go and have a working prototype ready by the time they reach their desk. Google Workspace is now directly accessible from apps built in AI Studio, including dashboards built on Sheets data and tools that organize Drive or work with documents and team data.

Developers can now build native Android apps in the build tab by selecting “Build an Android app” and prompting. Google also added support for the Google Play Console in AI Studio, allowing developers to publish apps directly to the test track. Apps can be previewed in an Android Emulator in the browser or installed on a test device using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB).

Builders can deploy their first two apps to Google Cloud at no cost, with no credit card required. AI Studio also now supports exporting directly to Google Antigravity, carrying over conversation history, project files and secrets.

Google said AI Studio now includes more customization options, and the Build agent can generate custom images using Nano Banana. A new edit tool lets users annotate directly in the preview window.

In the Gemini API, Managed Agents will provision a remote Linux environment through a single API call to the Antigravity agent. The agent can reason, plan and call tools, execute code, manage files in an isolated sandbox and browse the web to fetch and process live data. These agents are powered by the new Antigravity agent, built with Gemini 3.5 Flash, and are available via the Interactions API and in Google AI Studio.

Google also announced the Build with Gemini XPRIZE Hackathon, a global competition with a $2 million prize pool. The company described it as the largest ever for a hackathon.

On the web tooling side, Google gave a first look at WebMCP, a proposed open web standard for exposing structured tools such as JavaScript functions and HTML forms to browser-based agents. It also introduced Modern Web Guidance in early preview and Chrome DevTools for agents, which is available for Google Antigravity and more than 20 other coding agents.

Google is also launching a new $100 AI Ultra plan with 5X higher usage limits in the Gemini app and Antigravity than AI Pro, plus 20TB of cloud storage. Paid Google AI Pro subscriptions now include the YouTube Premium Lite individual plan at no extra charge.

Source: blog.google.

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