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Google launches its biggest Search redesign in 25 years featuring an AI-powered box with Gemini 3.5 Flash for multimodal queries and agentic capabilities

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Announced May 19, the update demos micro apps like weekend planners.

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Introducing our brand new, intelligent Search box — totally reimagined with AI. This is the biggest upgrade to our Search box in 25 years and it’s starting to roll out today. Designed to anticipate your intent, the new Search box helps you formulate your question with AI-powered suggestions that go beyond autocomplete. It will offer nuance that you might not have even thought to add — helping you ask the exact question on your mind with ease. Plus, you’ll be able to search across modalities — with text, images, files, videos and even Chrome tabs. #GoogleIO

10:47 AM · May 19, 2026 View on X

Today we are starting to roll out the biggest upgrade to the Google Search box in over 25 years — now completely reimagined with AI, along with Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default model for AI mode users globally!

6:20 PM · May 19, 2026 · 182.8K Views
Andrew CurranAndrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Gemini being permanently integrated into the search box starting today.

5:47 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1.2K Views
5:48 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1.2K Views

Agentic coding via antigravity is being incorporated into the search box and will write code live to answer your questions. Interactive displays to answer specific questions.

Andrew CurranAndrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
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koray kavukcuoglukoray kavukcuoglu@koraykv

Today at Google I/O, we introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash! It has become an integral part of our daily research cycle and works with all the tools we have at Google. We used a team of agents in Antigravity 2.0 to recreate the original AlphaZero research paper and build a playable version. They coded the reinforcement learning pipeline in JAX/Flax, trained a ResNet model from scratch via self-play on multi-TPU pods, and shipped a full-stack web app so you can play against it, from just 2 prompts. . Here’s what else makes 3.5 Flash special 🧵

5:54 PM · May 19, 2026 · 41.1K Views
6:00 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1.1K Views

They are consolidating purchases into one wallet for agentic commerce with Spark.

Andrew CurranAndrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
6:00 PM · May 19, 2026 · 1.1K Views
6:05 PM · May 19, 2026 · 897 Views

Universal Cart goes live in the US in the Summer, starting on YouTube.

Andrew CurranAndrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

They are consolidating purchases into one wallet for agentic commerce with Spark.

6:05 PM · May 19, 2026 · 897 Views
6:06 PM · May 19, 2026 · 986 Views

UI completely redesigned on iOS and Android mobile. (This went live for me this morning)

Andrew CurranAndrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Universal Cart goes live in the US in the Summer, starting on YouTube.

6:06 PM · May 19, 2026 · 986 Views
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Most people don't understand the magnitude of the human intent for information seeking and how much users rely on Search. It's an unsolved problem for decades - LLMs are helping us make fast progress - into creating a search - which we always wanted all along.

6:15 PM · May 19, 2026 · 107 Views

Can we talk about how well @Google has responded to the "ChatGPT threat" with AI overviews in Google Search? So many people wrote them off but I find myself using Google Search just as much as before for general queries and even some of my ChatGPT or Claude queries have moved there. AI Overviews and AI Mode has improved markedly over the past year. Excited for the new Agentic Search stuff they're announcing here at #googleio!

5:55 PM · May 19, 2026 · 271 Views

Now you can build micro apps right inside Google Search AI Mode!

Demoing building a weekend planner right in Search using the Antigravity harness 🤯

#googleio

Sam CharringtonSam Charrington@samcharrington

Can we talk about how well @Google has responded to the "ChatGPT threat" with AI overviews in Google Search? So many people wrote them off but I find myself using Google Search just as much as before for general queries and even some of my ChatGPT or Claude queries have moved there. AI Overviews and AI Mode has improved markedly over the past year. Excited for the new Agentic Search stuff they're announcing here at #googleio!

5:55 PM · May 19, 2026 · 271 Views
5:59 PM · May 19, 2026 · 131 Views

7/ Search got maybe its biggest UX shift in 25 years.

New AI Search box: dynamic expansion, multimodal inputs, AI suggestions, follow-up conversations, AI Mode handoff.

AI Mode defaults to Gemini 3.5 Flash and has crossed 1B monthly users.

Alex VolkovAlex Volkov@altryne

6/ Omni is rolling out today to Google AI Plus, Pro, Ultra subscribers globally through Gemini app + Google Flow. Also coming at no cost to YouTube Shorts + YouTube Create this week. API access in the coming weeks.

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8/ Gemini app is getting a huge agentic overhaul.

900M monthly users now.

New: Neural Expressive UI, Gemini Live integration, richer dynamic responses, Gemini Omni, Daily Brief, Gemini Spark, and a macOS app that will operate over local files/workflows.

Alex VolkovAlex Volkov@altryne

7/ Search got maybe its biggest UX shift in 25 years. New AI Search box: dynamic expansion, multimodal inputs, AI suggestions, follow-up conversations, AI Mode handoff. AI Mode defaults to Gemini 3.5 Flash and has crossed 1B monthly users.

5:47 PM · May 19, 2026 · 119 Views
5:47 PM · May 19, 2026 · 156 Views

Just sat down with @rmstein , Vice President of Product at @Google Search, to talk about AI Mode, the future of Search, and how generative AI is reshaping the way people discover information.

Super insightful conversation.

Video coming soon.

8:34 PM · May 19, 2026 · 4.5K Views
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