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With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini.

Google revealed a significant milestone for its Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.

Google released an upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think on February 13, 2026, developed in collaboration with domain researchers to improve reasoning on open-ended scientific and engineering problems with incomplete or messy data. The model is positioned for use cases in life sciences, materials science, and industrial R&D, where prior AI systems have struggled with confident errors under data uncertainty.

Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, reporting a 2x improvement in reasoning performance over Gemini 3 Pro. The update focuses on structured thinking and multi-step problem solving. The release marks Google's most direct challenge to Claude and GPT-4 class models on complex reasoning tasks favored in enterprise deployments.

Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode.

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite on March 4, 2026 at $0.25 per million input tokens, 2.5x faster than predecessor Flash models. The model is priced significantly below comparable offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Google is using aggressive pricing to accelerate developer migration to its platform and put pressure on competitors' margins.

Canvas in AI Mode is now available for everyone in the U.S. Plus, it can now help you draft documents or build interactive tools.

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from February 2026

Learn more about AI Mode in Search’s query fan-out method for visual search.

Today we announced new beta features for Gemini in Sheets to help you create, organize and edit entire sheets, from basic tasks to complex data analysis — just desc

The idea behind the new features is to make the apps more personal and capable to help users get things done faster, right within the platforms themselves.

The rollout will let users access Gemini in Chrome through a sidebar on desktop, enabling them to ask Google's AI chatbot questions about the content on the screen; get information from their Gmail, Keep, Drive, and YouTube; and compare tab contents.

Google is making new investments, building new tools and developing code security to improve open source security.

From summarizing emails, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking meetings, here are all the best Gemini features in Google Workspace.

Lyria 3 is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.

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Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.

Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place.

Google merged NotebookLM into Gemini on April 9, 2026, allowing users to upload documents and PDFs to create searchable repositories with auto-generated study guides. This brings a formerly standalone product to Gemini's two billion user base.