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All the Gemini announcements from Google I/O 2025: Free Gemini Live, a Sora competitor, AI Ultra
At Google I/O, the tech giant announced a ton of upgrades for Gemini, including free Gemini Live, a pricey new subscription, and a Sora competitor.
At Google I/O 2025, the company revealed a bunch of new Gemini updates and features that position the app as your AI assistant for practically everything.
Today, Google announced a new Sora competitor called Flow, updates to your AI-powered researcher, and free Gemini Live. Free is the operative word here, since many of the other features are bundled into the paid subscription plans — Google AI Pro (formerly AI Premium) for $20 a month and a new plan called AI Ultra for a whopping $250 a month.
The features showcased today demonstrate AI's increasingly agentic capabilities, in other words, AI tools that can perform tasks on your behalf. "This is our ultimate goal for the Gemini app," said Google Labs and Gemini lead Josh Woodward in a pre-event briefing, "an AI that's personal, proactive and powerful."
Here are all the major Gemini AI announcements from today's event.
Introducing Flow, Google's Sora competitor
Google Gemini now has its own version of OpenAI's AI video generator Sora. Today, Google announced an AI filmmaking tool called Flow. This tool combines two versions of Google's media models both unveiled today: Veo 3, Google's video generating model that has native audio, and Imagen 4 which Google says has improved text and typography generation. Flow comes with editing capabilities like combining scenes, "shooting" from specific camera angles and "lenses," and trimming or expanding scenes.
Flow is available today for AI Pro, which gets you 100 generations per month, and AI Ultra with higher limits.
To show off its capabilities, Google tapped filmmaker Junie Lau to create a short film using Flow, which you can watch on YouTube.
Gemini comes to Chrome
Starting tomorrow, Chrome users will get the Gemini experience directly in their browser for Windows and macOS. This version "allows you to easily ask Gemini to clarify complex information on any webpage you're reading or summarize information," according to the announcement. Gemini in Chrome is available for, you guessed it, AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.
Google was found guilty of being a monopoly in an antitrust case brought forth by the U.S. Department of Justice. The case is in its remedial phase, which means Chrome might be divested from Google. What happens next is unclear, so keep an eye out for Chrome's future.
Gemini Live now free for iOS users too
Starting today Gemini Live will be free to iOS users. Recently, Gemini Live, which uses real-time camera and screen sharing, was was made available for free to Android users after previously bundling it with its paid Gemini Advanced plan for $20 a month. Now this feature is free for all users with the Gemini app.
Google touts Gemini Live as an easy, hands-free way to troubleshoot problems since you can point your camera at something you need help with or ask it questions about something on your screen and it will talk to you in voice mode.
Gemini Deep Research and Canvas get some upgrades
Google announced Deep Research for Gemini last December, and now you can upload your own documents to the feature that's described as your very own research assistant. Deep Research is basically Gemini on steroids. It crawls the corners of the web to provide a detailed report on your query. Today, Google shared that you can now upload your own personal files to the research report.
On a related note, you can add this research to Gemini Canvas, which has been upgraded to be able to transform information into web pages, infographics, quizzes, and audio overviews. Gemini Canvas will now be available in 45 languages, Google shared.
All of these features are now powered by Gemini 2.5 models. Gemini Deep Research and Canvas are available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers starting today.
Access to certain new Gemini features come with a cost
Aside from Gemini Live for Android and iOS users, the other Gemini features are only available through paid subscriptions. The Google AI Pro plan costs $20 a month and will get you access to Gemini Deep Research, Canvas, and a version of Flow that uses Veo 2.
For access to Flow with Veo 3, along early access to other AI features, a YouTube Premium subscription, and 30 TB of storage there's the new Google AI Ultra plan, which costs $250 a month.
New Gemini-powered Workspace features
While this isn't technically a new feature in the Gemini app, it is an updated powered by Gemini. We have a whole article breaking down all the changes coming to Google Workspaces (Gmail, Docs, Slides, Vids, Meet, et al), but to summarize:
Customizable AI avatars that can present Google Slides presentations
Personalized email replies in Gmail
The ability to sort and organize emails in Gmail
Real-time speech translation in Google Meet
New AI writing tool for Google Docs
New features in Google Vids for video creation and editing
