The latest AI news we announced in August 2026

Google announced in August 2026 that its Gemini app surpassed 1 billion monthly users, alongside the release of Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cost-efficient developer model priced at half the original 3.6 Flash cost per million tokens, and the Pixel 11 series powered by the Tensor G6 chip running Gemini Nano. The company also introduced AI-powered study tools for students, including free one-year Google AI plans for eligible college students and new Search features for SAT, ACT, GRE, and LSAT prep.

The latest AI news we announced in August 2026 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. 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. We’re bringing intelligence directly to where people work and live, with powerful new hardware designed for Gemini in the Pixel 11 series, cost-efficient developer models like Gemini 3.7 Flash, the rollout of Gemini in Chrome https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/gemini-in-chrome-android-auto-browse/ 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. Build better agents at a lower cost with Gemini 3.7 Flash https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ . We released Gemini 3.7 Flash as our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. It arrived just three weeks after our launch of 3.6 Flash, delivering substantial improvements across software engineering, knowledge work, and web development workflows — with an introductory price of half the original 3.6 Flash cost per million tokens. Try the new Pixel 11 series, designed for Gemini Intelligence https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/google-pixel-11-pro-xl/ . 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. They’re also designed for Gemini Intelligence to deliver time-saving, personal help. footnote-1 1 See all the announcements from footnote-2 2 Made by Google 2026 https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/made-by-google-2026/ . Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/student-offer-google-ai/ . 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 https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/back-to-school-2026/ , including a dedicated student hub, new teacher-led tools https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/education/iste-2026-educator-updates/ , and SAT prep in Gemini https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/how-to-take-practice-sat/ . Level up your learning with Search https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/back-to-school-study-tools/ . 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. Get more intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/ . Our latest speech-to-text model delivers precise, intelligent real-time transcription for developer workflows like voice agents, live captioning, and post-call analytics. Unlike conventional models that struggle with noise and jargon, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe converts raw audio directly into accurate, polished, context-aware understanding. Get more done with new productivity features in Gemini Live https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/productivity-features-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 https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/one-billion-monthly-users/ . 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. Generate videos with more control using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ . We introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash to bring people even more precision and control for generating videos. The new capabilities deliver studio-quality video production — including scene extension, first-and-last-frame interpolation, crisp 4K upscaling, and faster prototyping. Omni 1.1 Flash is now available in Google Flow https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/new-creative-controls-google-flow/ , Google AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new chat?model=gemini-omni-1.1-flash , the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform http://console.cloud.google.com/agent-platform/overview , and the Gemini app https://gemini.google.com/ . Explore how Gemma is offline everywhere from outer space to underwater https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-one-billion-downloads/ . 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 https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/blue-skies/ . 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 https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/weathernext-2-cyclones/ . In a Nature paper, our researchers showed that WeatherNext 2 predicts cyclone track, intensity, and wind structure with state-of-the-art accuracy — delivering a decade of meteorological progress in one model. Now, we’re open-sourcing WeatherNext 2 to the research community to help build global climate resilience.