Within the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events occur yearly and remind us of the cadence of life and that point is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 shall be no totally different.
This 12 months, we count on to listen to an incredible deal about Google’s foray into AI and the place Gemini will enterprise subsequent. We anticipate that Google will provide a glimpse at upcoming Pixel {hardware}, together with the hotly anticipated Pixel 8a (who knew society was clamoring for a mid-tier, inexpensive smartphone?) and what’s new in Android 15. We’ll additionally discover out if Google plans something in Meta’s realm of “prolonged actuality.”
tune in to Google I/O 2024
Please don’t make a ingesting recreation out of the Google I/O 2024 keynote—particularly not out of how typically Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, utters the phrase “AI.” The beginning time on Might 14, 2024, is 10:00 A.M. PT / 1.:00 P.M. ET. You possibly can watch it reside on Google’s web site or YouTube. You don’t must register for the convention to look at something.
In the event you do find yourself making a ingesting recreation out of what is going to doubtless be a two-hour keynote, I recommend you take pleasure in a inexperienced smoothie or kombucha as an alternative.
Anticipate a lot Gemini AI
Google’s all the time been eager on synthetic intelligence. The corporate has spent the final decade lauding the purpose of its Machine Studying algorithms and the way they enhance the merchandise you work together with each day. This 12 months’s Google I/O will doubtless take it a step additional because the firm has majorly shifted its assets to focus on what AI, like Gemini, can do to all the prevailing consumer-facing merchandise.
Over two dozen classes can be found for Google I/O’s developer attendees, together with ones centered on Gemma. I’m particularly interested in this workshop on automating duties in Google Workspace—that is what I’d count on Gemini for use for within the first place.
Anticipate Pixel {hardware}
Google’s annual developer convention isn’t sometimes an occasion the place {hardware} will get trotted out—or at the least, it wasn’t within the earlier days. For the previous few years, Google has used the convention as a venue to both tease what’s subsequent or launch its next-gen “low-cost” telephone. Final 12 months’s Google I/O 2023 gave us the Pixel 7a, Pixel Pill, and Pixel Fold.
Most Android trustworthy count on to see the Pixel 8a hit the cabinets after the keynote ends. The smartphone is anticipated to reprise the Pixel 8 however with a smaller price ticket. We’d hear about one other Pixel Pill with out the dock. It might even be good for Google to inform us if it plans to launch the Google Pixel Fold 2 similtaneously the Pixel 9 later this 12 months. We will see.
Prolonged actuality?
There’s been chatter about whether or not Google will make fanfare for its “prolonged actuality” platform, a.okay.a. Android XR. Meta opened up Horizon OS to 3rd events this week, which ought to make for an attention-grabbing race if and when the 2 “immersive” platforms take off. However to this point, all my colleague Kyle Barr and I can decipher from the session record is that Google Maps can have updates to share and received’t be associated to Android XR. As soon as once more, we will see.
observe together with Google I/O
You possibly can take a look at the classes streamed reside on the Google I/O web site starting Might 14. You may as well level your browser right here, on Gizmodo, the place we’ll cowl all that’s popping out of Google’s annual developer soiree.