This is another quick notes dump of everything that was announced in Google I/O Keynote (includes the replay, I skipped past the pre-show). Presented without commentary.

I hope you find it useful 😊

• Pandemic help
  • Students & teachers
  • Small businesses
  • Community relief efforts
• Building a more helpful Google for everyone
• Maps
  • 150K km of bike lanes
  • Eco-friendly routes
  • Safer routing
• Classroom
  • 150M users globally
  • Chromebooks, K-12
• Work (no longer just a place)
  • WFH + access to collaboration tools
  • Google Workspace
  • New: Smart Canvas!
    • For distributed teams
    • Enriches collaboration
    • Document sharing
    • Group brainstorming
    • Assistive writing
    • Can present doc in Meet
    • Bringing Meet into Docs
    • Responsive voting
    • Live updating
  • Meet
    • Companion mode
    • Noise cancellation
    • Arrange faces while screen sharing
  • Workspace
    • Soon available to everyone, not just customers
• Advancing AI
  • Google Search
  • Translation
  • Google Assistant translator mode
  • Image Recognition
    • Google Photos, Memories
    • Google Lens, Text translation
  • Voice recognition & voice-to-text
    • Captioning
    • Computer generated speech
    • 51 voices across Assistant
  • Transformer model
    • BERT Model
    • Understanding natural language
    • Sensible responses based on human conversations
  • New: LaMDA
    • Still in R&D
    • Conversation with the AI
    • Demo: Conversing with Pluto
    • Synthesized concepts from training data
    • Generative conversations
    • Demo: Conversing with paper airplane
    • Still early research: nonsensical responses, dropped conversations
    • Future improvements to Assistant, Search, Workspace
    • Images, text, audio, video, concepts
    • Multimodal Model
• Tensor Processing Units
  • New: TPU v4
    • Connected together in “Pod” super computers
    • 4,096 chips/pod
    • Exaflop
• Quantum computing
  • Quantum info is delicate
  • Improving physical qubits
  • Road to error-correct quantum computer
• Quantum AI Campus
  • Michael Peña
  • Quantum processors
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Kryostat: Creates optimal environment for quantum computer
  • “Quantum is the language of Nature and we’re learning to speak it”
  • Beyond classical computational capabilities
  • “It was a pleasure doing science with you” —Michael Peña
• Privacy & Personal Data
  • Auto-delete after 18mos
  • Principles
    • Secure by default
    • Private by design
    • You’re in control
  • Gmail blocks scams
  • Google Photos encrypted
  • Bad passwords
    • On a mission to a password-free future
    • Phone authentication
  • Password Manager
    • (missed first one)
    • Deeper integration Chrome & Android
    • Password alerts
    • Chrome quick fix
  • Privacy Sandbox
    • Working with groups like W3C
    • Shaping future of online advertising
  • Differential Privacy
    • world’s largest open source library
  • Federated Learning
  • Android’s Private Compute Core
    • Open-source
    • Live caption
  • Privacy controls built in
    • Easier ways to delete recent search history
    • Easier to turn off location history
    • Locked folders
  • Safer with Google
• Advances in AI
  • Search
    • Make information accessible & useful
    • Multitask Unified Model (MUM)
      • 1000x more powerful than BERT
      • Ability to multitask
      • Acquires deep world knowledge
      • Generates language
      • Trains on 75+ languages
      • Multi-modal
  • Google Lens
    • Snap a photo
    • Provides results in your native language
    • Translates language from photos
  • AR
    • Pandemic encouraged more exploration
    • See how pro athletes do activities
    • Consulting with actual athletes (Simone Biles)
  • Information: Trustworthy & Reliable
    • Battling misinformation
    • Evaluating credibility of info
    • Checking the source
    • This month: About This Result starts rollout
  • Maps
    • 100+ improvements powered by AI
    • Live View: AR navigation
    • Use AR to explore the world around you
    • Matching what camera sees
    • AR Improvements
      • Prominent virtual street signs
      • Key landmarks
      • Bring it indoors
    • Detailed street maps
      • Sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic lights
    • More tailored, more dynamic
      • Fights info fatigue
      • Context based results (time of day)
    • Area busy-ness
      • Time of day, peak times
      • Keeps data private
      • Rolling out in coming months
    • Worldwide
    • Android & iOS
  • Google Shopping
    • Knowledge graph
    • Shopping graph
      • Websites
      • Prices
      • Reviews
      • Videos
      • SKUs
      • 24B listings
      • Spans across Google
      • Lens, Photos, Search, YouTube
    • Inspiration to Research to Purchase
    • Search inside screenshots
    • YouTube research and product discovery
    • Chrome to offer “Your carts” view in new tab
    • Links loyalty programs
    • Merchants
      • Free for merchants to sell across Google
      • 80% increase
      • Shopify partnership
    • 1B shopping journeys/day
  • Google Photos
    • AI to resurface meaningful moments
    • Gives you control over what you want to relive
    • Little Moments
      • ML to translate photos
      • Compares photos
      • Surfaces them as a pattern
      • Pieces photos together to tell a story
    • Meaningful memories
    • Cinematic Moments
      • Better memory curation
      • Computational photography
      • Neural networks & interpolation
      • Stitches together multiple similar shots and tweens them
    • Personalized content
      • Holidays, etc
    • Privacy control in memories
• Material Design
  • Debuted 2014
  • Computers showing up where we never imagined
  • Form Follows Feeling
  • Material You
    • Dynamic design
    • Adapts to you & your context
    • Accessibility
    • Blend in user styles while staying unique and beautiful
    • Not just Google apps
    • Light & Dark
    • Mode for every mood
    • Coming to Google Pixel
    • Smart displays and other products as well
• Android 12
  • Most personal OS ever!
  • 3B active Android device, globally
  • Most ambitious release
  • Themes
    • Deeply personal
    • Private & secure
    • Better together
  • New UI
    • Locked screen
    • System settings
    • Color
    • Google Pixel color extraction
    • System creates custom palette based on Home screen wallpaper
    • Applies hues across interface
    • Interactions simplified
    • Dynamic lighting
    • Larger clock w/o notifications
    • Quick settings
    • Includes GPay and GHome
  • Performance upgrades
    • CPU
    • GPU
    • Everything’s faster
  • Personal Information
    • Google Pixel & Samsung Galaxy most secure devices rating
    • Keeping your information safe
    • New: Privacy Dashboard
      • Reports on all apps on phone
      • Easy to revoke permission
      • Indicator when app is using camera or mic
      • New toggles to disable in Quick Settings
    • Private Compute Core
      • Safe, Private, and Local to your phone
      • Now Playing
      • Smart Reply
      • Audio & lang processing exclusively on device
    • First on Android
  • Multi-Device World
    • Better Together
    • Phone & Chromebook integration
      • Messages
      • Photos
      • And more
    • Phone & TV
      • TV remote features
    • Android Auto
      • 100M+ cars
      • Android Auto Wireless
      • Car Key: NFC + UWB tech
        • Remotely and securely share key
        • Releasing this fall
  • Releases this fall
• Smartwatch
  • Wear (née WearOS) update
  • Building unified platform with Samsung
  • New consumer experience
  • World-class health & fitness (Fitbit)
  • Partnership w/ Samsung
    • Combining best of OS
    • WearOS + Tizen
    • Apps start 30% faster
    • Longer battery life
    • Single set of APIs
    • Galaxy Watch
  • Navigation: App switching
  • Glanceable pieces of information (Tiles)
  • New Tiles API
  • Updated wearables app experience via MD
  • Best of Google on your watch
  • Fitbit
    • Track fitness
    • Support fitness journey
    • Fitbit features on Wear watches
• Inclusion in Photography
  • Working with experts
  • Diversifying data sets
  • Better white balance & representation
  • Adjustments to algorithms
  • Better reflect hair types
  • Cameras that work fairly for everyone
• Image Recognition
  • Better accuracy
  • AI applied to breast screening process
  • Supporting clinicians in their work to triage patients
  • Closing the equity gap
  • AI helping with Search and common dermatology conditions
  • Answer basic questions
  • Inclusive to varying skin tones
• Project Starline
  • Sneak Peak
  • Connecting people
  • Holographic video conference?
  • High res cameras
  • Depth sensors
  • Real-time 3D model
  • Real-time compression
  • Next level AR
  • 1000s hrs testing
• Sustainability
  • Carbon neutral
  • Renewable energy
  • Carbon-free energy 24/7
    • Carbon-Intelligent Computing Platform
    • Carbon-Intelligent Node Shifting
    • Geothermal Energy
  • Building new campus with highest sustainability standards
    • Dragonscale solar panels
    • Geothermal energy