At I/O 2026, Google announced major updates to Gemini across the underlying model and new app features. The Gemini app now has over 900 million monthly active users.
Neural Expressive redesign
Neural Expressive is the Gemini app’s new design language with fluid animations, vibrant colors, haptic feedback, and new typography.
The Gemini app redesign starts with a pill-shaped prompt box. On mobile, there’s just a ‘plus’ menu that opens a bottom sheet with a carousel of upload options at the top. You get Photos, Camera, and then your recent images. You have to scroll down to “More uploads” for Files, Drive, and Notebooks. Your Tools appear next: Guided learning, Deep research, Canvas, Create music, Create video, Create image, and Personal Intelligence.
On the other side, you’ll find voice input and Gemini Live. The latter no longer opens a fullscreen interface for an inline experience where you don’t have to explicitly switch between modes. You get a waveform housed in a centered pill. That’s flanked by video and screen sharing on the left, while the right side has mute and close.
The background now makes use of a gradient, with a Gemini logo and greeting at the center. Temporary chats is at the top-right corner, with Google moving the account switcher. The model picker is back in the top-left as a dropdown.
Gemini’s navigation drawer is now a fullscreen interface, with the thinner icon set on display here: New chat, Search chats, Library (previously My stuff), and Gems, which you can no longer quickly access. Notebooks and Recent round out this menu.
At the bottom, you’ll find a profile picture and settings gear to open the usual account menu.
As part of Neural Expressive, responses will no longer be walls of text. Instead, Gemini will design responses that show the most important information at the top and in bold. When relevant, you’ll see inline images, narrated videos, timelines, and interactive visualizations.
The Gemini app’s Neural Expressive redesign is rolling out now to Android, iOS, and the web.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash combines frontier intelligence with the ability to perform actions/agentic tasks. It surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro in coding, agentic, and multimodal benchmarks.
However, it accomplishes this while retaining the speed of the Flash series (4x faster than other frontier models in terms of output tokens per second) and at lower costs. Gemini 3.5 Flash is about a third to a half cheaper.
- Terminal-Bench 2.1: 76.2%
- GDPval-AA: 1656 Elo
- MCP Atlas: 83.6%
- CharXiv Reasoning: 84.2%
Gemini 3.5 Flash is rolling out starting today in the Gemini app, Search, Google Antigravity 2.0, and the Gemini API.
Gemini 3.5 Pro will be available next month with the same focus.
Gemini Omni
Omni is a new model that combines Gemini’s reasoning capabilities with creation. It lets you “create anything from any input,” starting with video output. The input can be images, audio, video, and text. What’s generated is grounded in real-world knowledge and can be easily edited via text.
In the Gemini app, you can upload any photo or video and edit with built-in templates. A new custom AI avatar that looks and sounds like you can be dropped into an action scene.
Gemini Omni (Flash) begins rolling out today to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers worldwide.
Gemini Spark
Gemini Spark is described as “your personal agent” that takes actions on your behalf to help “navigate your digital life.” Running on dedicated Google Cloud virtual machines, it works 24/7 and can be accessed on any device via the Gemini app. It will soon be accessible via emailing and texting, as well as through Chrome.
On mobile, it will be accessible in a new interface called Android Halo that shows live updates and task progress. Gemini Spark will have you confirm high-stakes actions like sending emails or spending money.
Spark represents a big shift for Gemini, transforming it from an assistant that can answer your questions into an active partner that does real work on your behalf and under your direction.
Spark is powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash with the full Google Antigravity harness to perform “long horizon tasks” that write code. It integrates with Google’s first-party services, like Gmail, Docs, and other Workspace apps, before expanding to other third-party tools via MCP over the summer.
- Set recurring tasks or triggers: Automatically parse monthly credit card statements to flag new or hidden subscription fees.
- Teach it new skills: Direct it to check your inbox for ongoing updates from your kids’ school, extract critical deadlines and send a consolidated daily digest to you and your partner.
- Create complete workflows: Ask it to synthesize raw meeting notes across emails and chats, create polished Google Docs with its findings and even draft the companion email kicking off a project.
Gemini Spark will be available next week to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US. It’s accessible in the navigation drawer with new “Chat” and “Spark” top tabs.
Spark is also coming to the Gemini app for Mac this summer. It will be able to perform tasks involving local files and “automate workflows across your desktop.” Google also teased a new voice experience:
You won’t have to worry about all the “ums” or “what abouts” that happen as you think aloud. Using the context from your screen, Gemini can turn your free-flowing speech into precise drafts, instantly reformatting the text to capture your intent, right where your cursor is.
Daily Brief
Daily Brief is an agent that offers a personalized digest of the day ahead based on the CC Google Labs experience that Google started testing last year. Google notes how Daily Brief is doing more than just summarizing by actually prioritizing, organizing, and suggesting the next steps.
Available in the side panel, you’ll get an update every morning with what you need to do. The “Top of mind” section shows actions you need to accomplish imminently. Shortcuts underneath each item let you create reminders, view messages, or draft replies. There’s also a “Looking ahead” section after that.
Gemini is working overnight to gather information on your day ahead by analyzing your Gmail, Calendar, and Tasks for what’s coming up.
Daily Brief is rolling out to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra starting today in the US.
$100 and $200 Google AI Ultra
Finally, Google AI Ultra now starts at $99.99 per month to access all these new features, while a cheaper $200 plan provides access to Google’s highest limits.
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