This 2025 felt like a steady acceleration: model updates, new features in products you already use, and infrastructure changes that few see but everyone benefits from. Did you miss anything? Here’s the essentials without unnecessary jargon, so you can see how AI reached more products and more people this year.

Overview

Google shared 60 major AI announcements across 2025. It wasn’t just noise: these were improvements aimed at making AI more useful for everyday tasks (from organizing email to generating video), more powerful for developers, and faster to respond.

Dominant theme: making AI useful for everyone. That thread ran through tools for creators as well as features built into devices and services you already use.

What mattered month by month (the standout items)

• January: kicked off with updates to Gemini, improvements in Android and educational tools like . The idea: put AI in your hands right away.