Google's massive AI showcase at I/O

PLUS: FutureHouse’s AI makes first scientific discovery

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Zach Mink & Rowan Cheung
May 21, 2025

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Google’s hyped I/O event didn’t disappoint — with a barrage of AI upgrades across its models, agents, search platform, and creative suite.

And best of all? The Rundown was there to catch it all live from Mountain View, CA.

In today’s AI rundown:

  • Gemini, Search level up at Google I/O

  • Google’s suite of next-gen creative AI tools

  • Create professional video ads with AI timeline editing

  • FutureHouse’s AI makes first scientific discovery

  • 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE I/O

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The Rundown: Google just unveiled major upgrades to its flagship Gemini and Gemma AI models at Google I/O, coming alongside new AI search and shopping features, a series of new agentic tools, and more.

Gemini / Models:

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash received updates, with Pro sweeping benchmarks and Arena leaderboards and Flash leveling up while maintaining speed.

  • A new “2.5 Deep Think” reasoning model is being released to testers, which shows new highs across math, coding, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks.

  • Gemma 3n launched in preview, a mobile-first open model that rivals larger models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet while being optimized for on-device use.

  • Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing rolled out for free to all users, with new personalization integrations launching in the coming weeks.

Search / Agents:

  • AI Mode in search will now be powered by Gemini 2.5 and is going live for all U.S. users, alongside new ‘Deep Search’ and Gemini Live embedded features.

  • Other AI Mode features include a virtual try-on tool, agentic shopping assistance, and Search Live for real-time, multimodal voice queries.

  • Google's coding agent Jules entered public beta, with the ability to work on developer tasks in the background and integrate directly with codebases.

  • Both Search and Gemini are gaining Agent Mode, which can complete as many as 10 tasks simultaneously on a user’s behalf.

Why it matters: These I/O releases feel like the culmination of years of research projects finally coming to life throughout the company’s sprawling AI ecosystem. The search upgrades also represent a major evolution, with new personalization and live capabilities that drastically change how users will interact with its flagship product.

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GOOGLE I/O

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The Rundown: Google also announced a flurry of new creative models and tool upgrades at I/O, including the new Veo 3 and Imagen 4 models, a new AI filmmaking platform, Lyria music upgrades and broader availability, and more.

The details:

  • The next-gen Veo 3 video model can generate synchronized audio, including sound effects, ambient sounds, and dialogue alongside video outputs.

  • Veo 2 receives new filmmaker-focused features like character and scene consistency, camera movement controls, and inpainting and outpainting editing.

  • The new Imagen 4 model brings new quality improvements and the ability to render fine details and precise typography, with support for 2k resolution.

  • Flow combines AI models into a filmmaking platform, allowing for the creation of scenes using natural language and character, scene, and style management.

  • The new models are available with the company’s new Google AI Ultra plan for $250 / mo and via Google’s Vertex enterprise platform.

Why it matters: Google continues to cook in the creative suite, with some impressive upgrades on the image and video/filmmaking front that look to take the next step up for the industry. The addition of synced audio to SOTA video brings a brand new control and coherence to generations that will unlock a wild amount of creative options.

AI TRAINING

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use LTX Studio's timeline feature to transform simple text prompts into fully edited videos with music, sound effects, and voiceovers in minutes.

Step-by-step:

  1. Start an LTX Studio project and create shots by entering text prompts in the storyboard view

  2. Transform still images into videos in the motion editor by selecting your favorite video models

  3. Adjust clip lengths, rearrange order, and layer shots in the timeline view

  4. Include soundtracks, voiceovers, auto sound effects, and adjust character expressions

Pro tip: Check out our exclusive workshop on how to use the timeline editor of LTX Studio here. Additionally, full Rundown University members enjoy a free month of the Standard Plan.

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FUTUREHOUSE

Image source: FutureHouse

The Rundown: FutureHouse announced that their multi-agent AI system "Robin" made its first major scientific breakthrough, identifying a promising new treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration — a leading cause of blindness.

The details:

  • Robin autonomously generated hypotheses, designed experiments, analyzed data, and created research figures, with humans handling the physical lab work.

  • The system identified ripasudil, a drug already approved in Japan for glaucoma, as a novel treatment candidate for dAMD — which was confirmed in lab tests.

  • Robin's code and data will be open-sourced next week, along with agents Crow (literature search), Falcon (deep review), and Finch (data analysis).

Why it matters: Along with coding, science feels like one of the first frontiers that will see the quickest transformation to AI-human collaboration across workflows — both fast-tracking research and expanding the limits of how researchers propose and design new experiments and hypotheses.

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Tencent released Hunyuan Game, an AI-powered game production engine for streamlining the creative process of game development.

Google announced Google Beam, a communications platform that uses AI to convert 2D video streams into 3D immersive experiences.

Intelligent Internet open-sourced II-Agent, a new agent framework that surpasses industry-leading agents on benchmarks with strong performance across tasks.

Google launched Stitch, a new experiment in Labs allowing users to quickly create impressive user interfaces via simple text prompts or reference images.

Apple is reportedly planning to open its AI models to third-party developers, allowing app creators to build on the language models behind Apple Intelligence.

Google provided new demos of its Android XR smartglasses powered by Gemini, also announcing partnerships with Warby Parker and other eyewear brands.

COMMUNITY

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