{"id":435984,"date":"2026-05-20T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:22:16","slug":"google-rolls-out-completely-redesigned-gemini-ai-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435984\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rolls out &#8220;completely redesigned&#8221; Gemini AI tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among a slew of announcements during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/google\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s annual IO developer conference, the American technology company announced a new visual identity for its Gemini <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> model, with new typography and &#8220;vibrant colours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/io.google\/2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google I\/O conference<\/a> is currently taking place in Mountain View, California. This year, the company dove further into expanding and redesigning Gemini, including integrating it into upcoming AI-powered glasses to be released in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>It is accompanied by a redesign of other graphic elements across Google&#8217;s platforms, including its app icons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2328822 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-i-o-2026-gemini_dezeen_2364_col_1-852x568.jpg\" alt=\"Google Gemini update\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1575\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>Google announced a new visual identity for Gemini on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>For Gemini&#8217;s reimaged look, the programme will greet users with a &#8220;stunning new design language&#8221; called Neural Expressive, which also includes software updates such as regional accents and dialects for its chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve completely redesigned the entire experience with Neural Expressive,&#8221; said Gemini vice president Josh Woodward during a keynote talk at the conference. &#8220;We&#8217;ve added fluid animation, vibrant colours, new topography and passive feedback throughout the app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But all know that good design isn&#8217;t just about how it looks. Good design is about how it works. So, we&#8217;ve evolved the entire experience and made it easier to discover and generate gorgeous images, videos, and music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2328823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-i-o-2026-gemini_dezeen_2364_col_2-852x463.jpg\" alt=\"Google Gemini update\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1286\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>Subtle, colourful ombre runs throughout the model&#8217;s platform<\/p>\n<p>The redesign focuses on the UX design of the Gemini chat experience, including type and voice-to-text.<\/p>\n<p>Before, a response would appear in the app as a wall of text, but now responses will be generated with images, video and other features, such as timelines.<\/p>\n<p>It will also include generated images and diagrams that users can zoom into.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire experience feels fluid and futuristic and incredibly natural,&#8221; said Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>According to Woodward, the redesign also allowed the team to integrate Gemini Omni into the chatbot, which is the company&#8217;s newly announced AI-video generating application.<\/p>\n<p>Together, it allows people to input a combination of images, audio, video and text to generate and edit a video.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2026\/03\/11\/ai-planning-tool-google-uk-government\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"191\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ai-planning-tool-google_dezeen_2364_col_0-191x191.jpg\" class=\"excludeLightbox wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google headquarters\" decoding=\"async\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p> UK government hires Google to develop AI planning tool to make &#8220;near-instant decisions&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the appearance of Gemini, it features a light or dark mode, which is overlayed with a blue gradient. The typography is a simple sans-serif, with various ombres used for word highlighting and other details.<\/p>\n<p>The app icons also feature a similar, softly illuminated mix of colours.<\/p>\n<p>Other announcements during the Google I\/O keynote included <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.google\/projectgenie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Genie<\/a>, which allows users to generate 3D environments based on real places from Street View and updates to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/innovation-and-ai\/products\/google-gen-ai-content-transparency-c2pa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Proverenc<\/a>e, a service that checks for AI-generated materials in images and video that&#8217;s also integrated within a chat.<\/p>\n<p>The company also debuted <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/blog\/co-scientist-a-multi-agent-ai-partner-to-accelerate-research\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Co-Scientist<\/a>, an AI research tool for scientists, as well as advancements in <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/science\/weathernext\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Next<\/a>, which aids in predicting weather, and models that help with molecular modelling for health research.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2328827 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-i-o-2026-gemini_dezeen_2364_col_4-852x460.jpg\" alt=\"Google Gemini update\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1276\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>Several AI applications have been integrated into the chat experience<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google&#8217;s cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI&#8217;s incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world,&#8221; said Google DeepMind Technologies CEO Demis Hassbis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google was recently hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2026\/03\/11\/ai-planning-tool-google-uk-government\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to develop an AI planning tool for the UK government<\/a> and collaborated with British designer\u00a0Ross Lovegrove and his studio<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/12\/19\/ross-lovegrove-google-deepmind-ai-chair-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0to co-create a\u00a0chair\u00a0using a generative\u00a0AI\u00a0trained on the designer&#8217;s\u00a0sketches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The images are courtesy of Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among a slew of announcements during Google&#8216;s annual IO developer conference, the American technology company announced a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,6160,364,367,111,139,69,1621,2384,145,3337],"class_list":["post-435984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-google","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionnews","tag-technology","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}