Robby Stein

1/2 Gemini 3 Flash is here ⚡⚡⚡ Starting today, we’re rolling it out globally in Search as the default model in AI Mode (google.com/ai). 3 Flash brings the sophisticated reasoning capabilities of Gemini 3 to Search, without compromising speed. This means AI Mode better interprets your toughest, multi-layered questions – considering each of your constraints or requirements – and provides a visually digestible response with helpful links to explore further.

New in Search: Preferred Sources is now rolling out globally in all supported languages. It’s a great way to customize Search to see more from the outlets you value most. Since launching last summer, we’ve already seen that: + People have selected 200,000+ unique sites ranging from local blogs to global newsrooms. + When someone marks a site as a Preferred Source, they’re 2x as likely to click through to it. ⭐Tap the star icon next to Top Stories to start adding sites to your list

@sundarpichai 🚀🚀🚀

Q1 earnings are in: 2026 is off to a terrific start. Our AI investments and full stack approach are lighting up every part of the business: Search queries are at an all-time high with AI continuing to drive usage. Google Cloud revenue grew 63%, Gemini models have incredible momentum, and it was our strongest quarter ever for consumer AI subs, driven by @GeminiApp. Thanks to our partners + employees around the world. Much more to share on our earnings call in 20 minutes… and at Google I/O in 20 days!

@samsheffer the Translate team is on a roll🔥

yo this is sick hats off to the translate team been using this product forever 🫶

Happy 20th anniversary Google Translate! 🌍 It’s incredible to see the scale of this product: 1 billion users now translate around 1 trillion words every single month. To celebrate, we’re launching one of our most requested features: pronunciation practice. Translate will give you real-time feedback on your speech so you can get your confidence up before starting a real-world conversation. Makes for a great judgment-free zone before ordering that coffee at the local cafe! It’s available in the Translate app in the U.S and India starting with English, Spanish and Hindi–give it a try 💬

@akgangakhedkar awesome to hear!

Went to a friend's wedding in Atlanta recently and was checking out things to do on Google before the trip and personal intelligence kicked in. It not only showed main attractions in ATL but it also knew the hotel I was staying at so it showed me attractions nearby. Well done @rmstein and the rest of the @Google team! Truly makes the search experience feel magical

@kimmonismus i'll be there. hope to see you! @OfficialLoganK too

Home sweet home ❤️ Anyone in California for google i/o? I’ll be there in person :)

You're still visiting the website, and it still registers as a page view. If you click a link in AI Mode today, it opens a new tab in Chrome. With this feature, it opens the webpage in the same tab. We built this to make it easier for people to dive deeper in the web - so they can view the page while maintaining context.

Ummm…. Does it register as a URL visit? A pageview?

Today we shipped a new Search experience in @googlechrome to help you explore the web without constant back and forth between tabs. Now, when you click a link from AI Mode, the website opens side-by-side. It's a game changer for comparing details and products across sites, discovering new content & asking follow up Qs about what you’re seeing – all in one view. If you're in the U.S. try it on Chrome desktop today! Just make sure you’ve got the latest version of Chrome to try it out⚡️

One of my favorite features in Search! Beyond just finding a place to eat, agentic capabilities in AI Mode actually handle the logistics. Give it a go if you haven’t tried already.

Now rolling out: The new AI-powered Google Finance is landing in 100+ countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico. Great for digging into market research, catching live earnings transcripts or tracking crypto & commodities in real time. If you’ve been waiting to use these features outside the US and India, they're heading your way now. 📈 Check it out: finance.google.com/beta

optimists beat pessimists almost every time. to make something valuable you need to love possibilities and pessimists can’t see them.

@haider1 +1 i can say that tool use, query fan outs and real-time web retrieval have made all the difference for AI Mode in Search

Google Jeff Dean says bigger context windows alone are not enough What matters is staged retrieval: lightweight mechanisms that narrow a trillion tokens down to 10 million, then to the million you actually need "you don't need a trillion at once, you need the right million"

@ai_for_success 🧑‍🍳

Holy smoke.. Google is cooking 🔥

@dozenrose Live Translate with headphones is a game changer - excited for everyone to try it out!

One more step towards a world without language barriers. Real-time translations just became even easier in the Google Translate app!  Now you can get live translations with headphones on iOS (it’s already available on Android!).  🎧 Also available in more markets and over 70 languages! 🌍

Search Live has launched globally! With our new model – Gemini 3.1 Flash Live – responses are more natural and multilingual. Troubleshoot, learn skills, or just have a free-flowing convo with Search in the language you prefer. You’ll hear useful audio responses, plus get web links to explore the topic further. Try it out and let us know what you think!

The intensity, creativity and technical breakthroughs happening everyday is beyond even what I felt at Google in 2007. This is just the beginning.

@Jas_S_Sekhon @demishassabis @GoogleDeepMind Congrats and excited to work together

I’m excited to share that I will be joining @demishassabis and @GoogleDeepMind as Chief Strategy Officer! I am committed to shepherding AGI responsibly to benefit everyone. I am looking forward to doing this with the team at DeepMind.

@villaumbrosia @productschool Excited to see what’s coming!

Tomorrow is a very important day for @productschool , and I keep thinking about something @rmstein said on our podcast: "As a founder, as a leader, everyone needs to think, what's gonna be the most important thing that if we get it right, this is potentially a five or 10 year opportunity of growth, of value, of helpfulness that we can give people." Tomorrow, we're launching something big, something that – we hope – can help raise a new generation of AI-native product managers. The role of a PM now comes with a lot of new expectations. We have been tirelessly releasing brand-new AI-first courses as well as updating our original certifications to account for the new skills necessary. With this new launch, we want to make learning these crucial new skills more accessible – so the industry transformation goes faster and smoother. More details tomorrow

@dreamwieber This is definitely not expected. I'm going to DM you for more details so we can debug.

How is Google Search's AI mode still so bad? It has so much potential, but doesn't even handle multi-turn conversations? You ask a follow up, it treats it as an entirely new questions.