Google I/O Conference 2025: What can be seen

00:00 Speaker A

Alphabet investors are eagerly awaiting Google IO of the company, which begins later. You will be observed by signs that the company can maintain its dominance in the search for increasing competition, especially the AI. The share below average the previously wider technology sector this year, but even with concerns about the search, a big focus of the conference will be on the developments related to Google's AI offers. California is Mountain View, California, by Mountain View, Dan Howley, is the editor of Yahoo Finance Tech. Dan, great to get a feeling of you on the floor. What you heard of this conference, what about you?

01:20 Dan Howley

Yes, Maddie, really the big thing that we will look for is every type of AI improvements to achieve Google search. You know that you have talked about how to find more AI elements. You obviously see UH -ai overviews. These are this type of AI summary in their search results. Don't always appear. But you know it is often a function that you can see. Uh and see, this is an important time for Google. We saw the UH Senior Vice President of Services from UH Apple during the hearing of Google's Cartel hearing by Eddie Cue that the company had recorded a decline for the first time in searching in the Safari browser. And the base search engine for Safari is Google. Now there is a kind of uh, isn't it one thing? Basically, there is speculation that Apple may downplay how Google works because it has a deal of 20 billion US dollars where Google pays you to make Google the base search engine for safari, and you know if the hearing of antitrust law does not run out of your way, you may lose these 20 billion US dollars. But that's neither here nor there. The main thing is that there is this UH perception that Google may fall behind the AI ​​competitors such as confusion, such as open AI and Chat -Gpt. So you will see many elements of it. And then, of course, you know, compete strongly with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS when it comes to the Google Cloud platform. So we will try to see any elements there when it comes to AI. You have ai and work areas, but what else will you add? And then you presented this type of really wild project, Project Astra, last year, which was basically a way to interact with your phone and AI. Hopefully we hear more about it and where it is going. You have an AR -VR agreement with Samsung, where you build a headset. Uh and so they would think that they would expand from there. So you already have competition in this room. Uh Meta offers its Metaray vans UH AI glasses. According to and Apple, according to his own glasses, which may take place at some point in 2027 or not later. Uh, but clearly many kind of type of competition in this area, because these companies want to know what comes next to the smartphone. Uh and it could be these glasses, maybe not, but they want to make sure they are not left behind.