Everything Google announced at I/O 2026, including Gemini Omni, new Spark AI agent and Gemini 3.5 Flash

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• Google showcased some of its most exciting AI updates at I/O 2026 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
• During the keynote address headlined by CEO Sundar Pichai, the company unveiled its latest Gemini 3.5 Flash language model, its agentic AI approach with Gemini Spark, a new ‘world model’ series with Gemini Omni, and a refreshed coding assistant in Antigravity 2.0. Here are the biggest updates you should know from I/O 2026 1) Gemini Omni:⁠⁠ Google has introduced a new world model called Gemini Omni.
• The new model combines the reasoning abilities of other generative media models from Google, including Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie.
• While on stage at I/O 2026, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called Omni a significant leap toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
• Unlike traditional AI video generation tools that rely mainly on prompts, Gemini Omni can combine text, images, videos, and audio references to generate...