Text unedited and just key points wrote down. Updated as the Keynote goes.
I would recommend watching everything by yourselves here: https://events.google.com/io/ but if you do not have the time check the main focus points below.
Sundar Pichai
He’s happy to be here live from Google Camp.
Covid-19 initiatives: g.co/covidrelief
150k kilometers for bike roads for Google Maps.
New Google Workspace:
Javier Soltero
Smart Canvas
Collaborative tool making Google Docs, Sheets and Slides a lot smarter and more advanced.
Possible to connect via Hangout to do changes while talking with your team live.
Back to Sundar
Advancing AI
Translation:
Interpreter mode in Google Assistant (interpret me in German).
Image Recognition:
Google Lens is improved with better image recognition, calculations.
Search
BERT model looks at words before and after each word and searches for meaning.
LaMDA
Natural Language Understanding Model
An example of dialogue with Pluto and Paper Airplane is really promising. The dialogues were really natural.
LaMDA is keeping the dialogue open.
TPUv4
10^18 Floating Point Operations available at Google.
Quantum computing problem ATM is loss of data because the info is lost even with Cosmic particles.
A video about Quantum Computing with Michael Peña. As always, Michael was witty and helped us understand Quantum computing.
Cyber Security
Auto delete info after 18 months for all new Google accounts by default.
Jen Fitzpatrick
Phone-based authentication FTW.
Assistant will help to change unsafe passwords in your Password Manager.
A lot of attention to Data Privacy. What Google says – they are working on making our data as private and secure as possible.
Delete the last 15 min of search history. Might be helpful for a lot of people.
Prabhakar Raghavan
Search
MUM – Multitask Unified Model – Understanding queries
1000 more powerful than BERT.
Reads info from a lot of languages, images, and videos and provides related answers.
More help for translating language for end-users, especially for students by translating and providing more info about what is being translated.
More AR (Augmented Realities) with athletes. Google your favorite ones.
“About this result” feature in Google Search to check the credibility of the result. This month launch in English language.
Liz Reid
Google Maps + AI
100+ improvements this year.
Live View has a new feature with AR by marking landmarks, streets, providing info about businesses.
More detailed street view with crosswalks and stuff for 50 cities by the end of this year.
Bill Ready
Shop Online
Shopping graph – websites, prices, reviews, videos, product data.
YouTube + Shopping collaboration in the future.
Price notifications, unfinished carts dashboard, special pricing for linked accounts.
Shimrit Ben-Yair
Google Photos + AI
Little Patterns – the algorithm is looking for visual patterns and in all your photos and provide a story that is uniquely yours.
From two similar photos, Google Photos will be able to generate visuals in between and make a moving video/photo.
As Shimrit told, everything will be available this summer.
Matias
Material You
Availability to customize color schemes, size, line thickness, and other UI elements in Google Pixel.
Sameer Samat
Android 12
3B Active Android devices worldwide – milestone.
New UI for Android and Pixel
The camera is improved for taking pictures of people of color.
Better Together – more focus to better compatibility between all smart devices.
Digital Car Key – you will be able to unlock your car with your phone.
Google and Samsung are working towards better solutions for smartwatches.
Suzanne Frey
Privacy Dashboard – shows what apps have been accessed in a timeline.
Patrick Chomet – Samsung
He is happy and hopeful about the partnership.
Bjorn Kilburn
More info about smartwatches.
Fitbit is the new family member of Google.
Dr. Karen DeSalvo
Working on making mammograms work better.
Also in other fields with image recognition.
Dermatology assist tool by the end of this year. Upload images and get info.
Sundar is back
Project Starline
3D meetup model via online call.
By 2030 Google plans to operate 24/7 on carbon-free energy.