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Search is getting its biggest redesign in 25 years, replacing the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-search-is-getting-ai-agents-and-a-new-interface-this-summer-y0ry4dfxv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y0Ry4DFxV.png og:image:alt: Google Search is getting AI agents and a new interface this summer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google Search is getting AI agents and a new interface this summer **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google I/O 2026 centered on autonomous AI agents across Search, Gemini, and developer tools. Search is getting its biggest redesign in 25 years, replacing the traditional box with a conversational Gemini-powered interface, plus background 'information agents' that monitor topics and push synthesized updates. The Gemini app now has 900M monthly users and gains a personal background agent (Gemini Spark), a daily digest, and a new multimodal video model. Pricing shifted: Ultra dropped from $250 to $100/month. Gemini 3.5 Flash powers most announcements — it's 4x faster than competing models but 3x–6x more expensive than predecessors. Antigravity 2.0, Google's agentic platform, adds multi-agent orchestration, a new CLI, SDK, and Android toolchain support. Google AI Studio gained one-click Cloud Run deployment and Android publishing. A new WebMCP standard lets web apps expose capabilities to browser agents. The overarching theme: AI running proactively in the background without explicit user prompts. ## Content Google I/O 2026 was heavy on agents. Almost every announcement — Search, Gemini, the developer tools — pointed in the same direction: AI that runs in the background without you asking it to. Here's what was announced and what it means in practice. ## Search gets its biggest redesign in 25 years The traditional search box is being replaced with a conversational interface powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash. The box expands for complex queries, accepts multimodal inputs, and suggests follow-up questions as you type. AI Overviews already reaches 2.5 billion monthly users; AI Mode has crossed one billion. The more significant change is **information agents** — background processes that monitor topics continuously and push synthesized updates to you. Think of it as Google Alerts, but instead of raw links, you get a digest that compares perspectives and explains context. Use cases include stock prices, flight deals, sports scores, housing trends, and breaking news. These agents launch this summer for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. first. Also coming this summer: **generative UI**, which builds custom widgets and dashboards on the fly in response to queries. This one is free for all users. Paid subscribers also get **mini-apps** — small tools you can create in natural language directly inside Search, built on the Antigravity platform. The obvious concern here is publisher traffic. AI Overviews already reduced referral clicks; agents that synthesize the web without sending users anywhere will likely accelerate that. The EU is watching under the Digital Markets Act. ## Gemini app updates The Gemini app now has 900 million monthly active users. The main updates: - **Daily Brief**: a personalized morning digest that pulls from your inbox, calendar, and task list - **Neural Expressive**: a visual redesign with fluid animations and richer response formats - **Gemini Spark**: a cloud-based personal agent built on Gemini 3.5 Flash that runs autonomously in the background across Gmail, Docs, and other Google services - **Gemini Omni**: a new multimodal video generation model Pricing changed too. The Ultra subscription dropped from $250 to $100/month. A new AI Ultra plan at $100/month offers 5x higher usage limits than Pro. The goal is clearly to position Gemini as a proactive assistant rather than a chatbot you have to prompt. ## Gemini 3.5 Flash: fast, capable, and noticeably more expensive Gemini 3.5 Flash is the model powering most of these announcements. Google claims it's 4x faster than competing frontier models (12x in an optimized variant on Antigravity). It supports 1M input tokens and 65K output tokens, with a January 2025 knowledge cutoff. The catch: it's significantly more expensive than its predecessors. At $1.50/M input and $9/M output tokens, it's 3x the cost of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis puts Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) above even Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in cost. This fits a broader pattern — OpenAI and Anthropic have done the same with recent releases. Despite the price, Google is deploying it everywhere: the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, Gemini Spark, and Antigravity. A forthcoming Gemini 3.5 Pro will act as orchestrator while Flash handles sub-agent execution. Google also noted strengthened safety guardrails for the 3.5 generation. A new **Interactions API** is in beta, offering server-side history management similar to OpenAI's Responses API. ## Antigravity 2.0: the agent platform Antigravity is Google's agentic coding and deployment platform. Version 2.0 is a significant update: - **Redesigned desktop app** with multi-agent orchestration and background task scheduling - **New CLI** (replacing the previous Gemini CLI) for terminal-based workflows - **SDK** for building custom agents - **Antigravity 2.0** supports dynamic sub-agents running in parallel, which is how the OS-from-scratch demo at the keynote worked - Integrations with Google AI Studio, Firebase, and Android The platform is available globally. On Antigravity, Gemini 3.5 Flash reportedly runs 12x faster than the standard API. ## Developer tools: AI Studio and Android Google AI Studio got several updates: - Native workspace app integration - One-click Cloud Run deployment - Android app publishing directly to the Google Play test track - A new mobile app - Managed agents in the Gemini API Android development is now officially supported in the Antigravity toolchain via a new stable Android CLI. Google claims agents using this CLI are 3x faster and use 70% fewer tokens, thanks to an Android knowledge base and open-source Android skills for LLMs. Developers can move from Antigravity to Android Studio for production refinement and deployment. Chrome DevTools also gained agent-assisted debugging, and a new **WebMCP** standard lets web apps expose capabilities to browser-based agents. Other developer announcements: Gemma 4 fine-tuning with LoRA support, and managed agents in the Gemini API for teams that want hosted agent infrastructure without building their own. --- The throughline across all of this is agents running without explicit prompts — monitoring, synthesizing, building, and notifying. Whether that's useful or unsettling probably depends on how much you trust Google with your inbox and search history. 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