Kumo AI says its new model can make business predictions more accurately than LLMs and more accurately than many small models built specifically to make one kind of prediction.

Google i/O 2025 starts this Tuesday, May 20 and runs two days. As Google has done for the last few years, it's hosting the developer conference at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, an outdoor venue that's a short stroll from the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.

A lot of that vision rests on AI Mode in Google Search, which Google is starting to roll out to everyone in the US. AI Mode offers a more chatbot-like interface right inside Search, and behind the scenes, Google is doing a lot of work to pull in information instead of making you scroll through a list of blue links.

But first, we're entering AI Mode. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Google Search is getting an AI-powered makeover. The search engine will be more conversational and eventually include an AI assistant as it looks to fend off competition from high-profile startups like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Google I/O 2025 was largely dominated by AI agents that will parse the web for users, representing a new paradigm that could replace Search.

For now, AI Mode is just an option inside of Google Search. But that might not last. At its I/O developer conference on May 20th, Google announced that it is rolling AI Mode out t

I/O presentation, the company revealed AI assistants of all kinds, smart glasses and headsets, and state-of-the-art AI filmmaking tools.

Jeff Dean, Google's Chief Scientist, said AI will have to learn more than basic coding before it's operating at the level of a junior engineer.