12 big announcements made at Google I/O 2024 that you can’t miss: Gemini 1.5 Flash, Veo, Project Astra and more

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Google hosted its annual developer's event, Google I/O 2024 on May 14 with a promise to discuss AI. The company was true to its word, as the entire event it announced several new AI features and enhancements for Android, Search, Workspace, Photos, and other services. However, there were some key announcements which grabbed the attention of the audience watching from home or live. The major focus of the event was its AI model Gemini and its integration with other Google apps, let's check out all the major highlights of the event.

3. Gemini for Google Workspace: Google will be integrating Gemini 1.5 Pro into Workspace apps such as Docs, Gmail, Gmeet, Drive, and other apps. In Gmail, the chatbot will be able to summarise and reply to messages in seconds. These features will be available to Gemini Advanced users in June.

4. Gemini 1.5 Pro: Sundar Pichai announced that the powerful AI model will add a larger context window with 2 million tokens in a private preview, enabling the chatbot to conduct even more complex tasks such as analysing longer documents, codebases, videos, and more.

5. Project Astra: This announcement grabbed the attention of AI capabilities being used for doing several day-to-day tasks. Project Astra is a multimodal AI assistant which functions via the device's camera. The AI agent can be used for finding and locating things if it's misplaced.

6. Gems: Google announced a chatbot creator which is being called “Gems,” enabling users to develop a personalised version of the Gemini assistant. Users can now customise how they want Gemini to respond in terms of personality, tones, or specialisation.

7. Veo: Google announced the new AI video generation tool which can create high-quality, 1080p resolution videos longer than a minute. The tool is designed to understand prompts based on different cinematic effects, variations, and more which is required to develop a pleasing video.

8. Gemini Nano to Chrome: Google also announced the integration of Gemini Nano to