Key takeaways
What happened
Your browser does not support the audio element. This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools, and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response, and education.
Our latest speech-to-text model delivers precise, intelligent real-time transcription for developer workflows like voice agents, live captioning, and post-call analytics. 5 Transcribe converts raw audio directly into accurate, polished, context-aware understanding. Get more done with new productivity features in Gemini Live. Gemini Live is moving beyond conversation to handle complex tasks on your behalf.
With new features like Personal Intelligence, Daily Brief, Spark, and hands-free inbox management, you can easily talk through your day and delegate your to-dos without missing a beat. See how more than 1 billion people are using the Gemini app every month. The Gemini app officially surpassed 1 billion monthly users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google’s history.
To mark the milestone, we shared some usage insights, such as: 63% percent of users now talk directly to Gemini, including more “voice only” users — with busy parents 43% more likely to use it for everyday tasks. Gemini now generates 150 million+ images every day, and small businesses are power users, relying on Gemini's all-in-one image, video, and audio creation to craft marketing materials.
Why it matters
To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news. Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from August. In August, we continued advancing AI responsibly — making it faster, more accessible, and truly practical for everyone, from software developers and students to creatives and scientists.
7 Flash, the rollout of Gemini in Chrome on Android, and hands-free voice tools across Google Workspace and Gemini Live. As the Gemini app officially crossed 1 billion monthly users, we also expanded our creative and scientific footprint, introducing studio-quality video and music generation alongside open-source AI models that predict weather patterns and tackle climate challenges.
Overall, August marked a shift toward AI that isn't just powerful in theory, but useful in everyday reality. 7 Flash. 7 Flash as our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. 6 Flash cost per million tokens. Try the new Pixel 11 series, designed for Gemini Intelligence. At Made by Google 2026, we unveiled Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold.
These devices come with major camera upgrades, enhanced durability, and our fastest, most powerful chip, Google Tensor G6, that runs the latest Gemini Nano model. 1 They’re also designed for Gemini Intelligence to deliver time-saving, personal help. 2 See all the announcements from Made by Google 2026. Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us.
We’re offering one year of a Google AI plan free of charge for eligible college students around the world — plus new and enhanced study tools — so students can make the most of this school year. We’ve also got tools to help teachers and students as they head back to school, including a dedicated student hub, new teacher-led tools, and SAT prep in Gemini.
Level up your learning with Search. To help you start the semester with confidence, we've added new AI-powered learning features in Search — all built to be safe by design. With these updates, Search can help you grasp complex concepts through interactive visuals, generate practice quizzes for exams like the SAT, ACT, GRE, and LSAT, learn step-by-step with Lens, and stay organized with notebooks. 5 Transcribe.
What to watch
Explore how Gemma is offline everywhere from outer space to underwater. We released Gemma to help developers build responsible, innovative AI applications anywhere. Over one billion downloads later, Gemma supports environments from phones and edge infrastructure to space. You can explore some of the ways people are using it — from researching interspecies communication to driving medical breakthroughs — and share, discover, and collaborate in our new community repository.
Learn about Operation Blue Skies, a project to reduce aviation climate impact with AI. Our AI-powered forecasts already help flight crews and air traffic controllers adjust routes to avoid forming contrails — all within normal flight operations. Now, we’re partnering with the UK Government and aviation leaders to expand this technology across the North Atlantic, helping airlines reduce aviation’s climate impact on a global scale. See how WeatherNext 2 demonstrated a massive leap forward in predicting cyclones.