What launched at Google I/O 2026 (30-minute day 1 recap)

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, Anti-Gravity 2.0, and a suite of new creative tools including Omni, Flow, Stitch, and Pomelli during day one of Google I/O 2026. The company also unveiled a consumer redesign for Gemini and new Google AI Studio Workspace integrations, though some featured products were not yet available at launch.

Today is day one of Google I/O 2026, and I walk through every major announcement live—from the new Gemini 3.5 model family to Anti-Gravity 2.0, Google AI Studio, Gemini’s consumer redesign, the Omni video model, Flow, Stitch, and Pomelli. I test them in real time and tell you exactly which ones delivered. Listen or watch on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts What you’ll learn: How Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks against Claude and GPT models on speed and agentic coding tasks How Anti-Gravity 2.0’s new features projects, scheduled tasks, subagents, slash commands compare to Codex and Claude Code Why the /grill-me slash command could be a more aggressive alternative to Claude Code’s clarification flow—and how to use it How Google AI Studio’s new Workspace integration is designed to own the internal productivity app use case How Google’s new creative tools work in practice: Omni video generation , Flow cinematic video editing and character consistency , Stitch streaming UI design with inline edits , and Pomelli brand identity and asset generation Why Google’s launch-to-availability gap is still a problem—and what to do when a featured product doesn’t actually work yet Brought to you by: Magic Patterns —Prototypes that look like your product Thoughtspot —Build AI-powered analytics into your product In this episode, we cover: 00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo Google I/O 2026 day 1 overview 01:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=107s Gemini 3.5 flash 04:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=259s Antigravity updates 06:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=392s CLI test and agent features 07:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=479s Core agent features released today—May 19th, 2026 09:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=583s New slash commands 11:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=680s Antigravity test results and takeaways 12:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=745s AI Studio updates 13:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=832s Access issues 15:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=920s Gemini redesign 17:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=1044s Gemini image gen test 19:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=1156s Omni video generation 22:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=1376s Flow cinematic editing 24:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=1471s Avatar creation test 26:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=1605s Pomelli and Stitch 31:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-T12Z-8Tbo&t=1873s Recap and final thoughts Tools referenced: • Gemini 3.5 Flash: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/ https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/ • Antigravity: https://antigravity.google/ https://antigravity.google/ • Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/ https://aistudio.google.com/ • Google Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/ https://gemini.google.com/ • Omni video generation : https://gemini.google/overview/video-generation/ https://gemini.google/overview/video-generation/ • Google Flow: https://flow.google/ https://flow.google/ • Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/ https://stitch.withgoogle.com/ • Pomelli Google brand tool : https://labs.google.com/pomelli/about/ https://labs.google.com/pomelli/about/ Other references: • Google I/O 2026 announcements: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/ https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/ Where to find Claire Vo: ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/ https://www.chatprd.ai/ Website: https://clairevo.com/ https://clairevo.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/ Production and marketing by https://penname.co/ https://penname.co/ . For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email email protected /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection .