Google I/O 2025 LIVE: all the latest on Gemini, Pixel, Nest and more

Will we see Google Pixel 10 launch today?

Although it's not completely out of the question, the likelihood of Google announcing its latest round of Pixel phones is slimmer than the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.

After all, even though the Pixel 9 handsets leaked numerous times ahead of I/O 2024, they failed to make an appearance during the conference. In fact, it wasn't until late June before Google finally posted its own teaser video.

So don't expect that kind of product today. The keynote will almost certainly focus more on the software experiences coming this year than individual devices.

What new AI tools can we expect?

Last year's I/O focused a lot on neat, consumer pleasing AI tools – such as the Veo video creation engine. Since then, we've seen Veo 2 launch, giving everyone the chance to make video clips from simple text inputs.

Some of the results can be extraordinary.

But while that's an example of crowd pleasing AI functionality, it's likely the most impressive stuff shown today will work more in the background. Gemini integration in Android Auto was mentioned during The Android Show, and that could have much more profound effect on many people's lives than, say, animating a cat in space.

That being said... it's a cat... in space!!!

Google Assistant RIP

As Gemini is expected to take centre stage during the keynote, it is also likely to signal the imminent demise of Google Assistant.

It's been on the cards for a while, but it seems that the switch over is to ramp up. Some Google Nest speaker owners have even started to report that Gemini has arrive on their devices.

Those registered on the Google Home Public Preview have spotted that the LED lights on the front of their Nest Audio speakers have turned adopted the Gemini colour scheme. We should expect to hear more about this later.

Stealth updates

While much of what will be announced today will take a while to bleed through, Google has been known to slowly roll out some of the features quietly.

Take last week's unveiling of its new Material 3 Expressive design language, for example. Coming to Pixel phones first as part of an expected public Android 16 release later this month, it will also be heading to Wear OS devices, such as the Pixel Watch 3.

However, some have reported seeing some elements of it already starting to appear on their wearables. New buttons designed around the new look have been spotted on devices in the wild.

Eyes on the prize

As well as the possible return for Google smart glasses (as below), it's thought we'll find out a lot more about Project Moohan – the joint Google/Samsung XR headset that's coming later this year.

Hopefully that'll include its real name, so we don't have to continue using the temporary code name.

A Google executive also explained to T3 last week that the Apple Vision Pro rival – which is also being co-developed with Qualcomm – will only be the "first device" we can expect. Will we find out more about others today then?

Time will tell.

Watch it all live

The Google I/O opening keynote will start at 10am PDT, which is 6pm BST in the UK, and you'll be able to watch it all unfold right here on T3.

It's quite a long one – we've known it to last an hour and a half in the past – so make sure you grab yourself a snack and drink beforehand. Oh, and it's advised you stay until the end as that's when Google tends to pull a few surprise devices out of the bag.

The return of Google Glass

At the end of The Android Show: I/O Edition last week, Google's president of Android, Sameer Samat teased one of the things we might expect to see during today's I/O keynote. He put on a pair of sunglasses and said we'll see something "cool".

That's lead many to believe that we'll get to see Google's answer to the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, maybe even something a bit more advanced.

Let's not forget, Google was pretty much the first to market with smart glasses, with its ultimately doomed Google Glass. I tried it myself at the time and could see the appeal, but the application was flawed back then.

Things have certainly progressed in the last decade, though.