I/O 2023
43 announcements tracked. Reality Score: 81% shipped substantially as promised.
Shipped 21
'About this image' in Search
Context panel showing when an image was first indexed, where it's been seen online, and whether it's AI-generated.
Rolled out globally to English users in October 2023, ~5 months after announcement.
'Help me write' in Gmail
Generative AI drafting full emails in Gmail, launching via Workspace Labs waitlist.
Rolled out through Workspace Labs in 2023, then bundled into the Duet AI / Gemini for Workspace paid add-on in 2024. Now a core Gemini feature with Drive/Gmail context and tone matching.
Available in multiple languages.
A3 Virtual Machines with NVIDIA H100
Purpose-built AI supercomputer VMs with 8x NVIDIA H100 GPUs, 3.7Tbps GPU-to-GPU bandwidth.
GA in August 2023 on schedule. Backbone of Google Cloud's generative AI infrastructure ever since, followed by A3 Mega (2024) and A3 Ultra (late 2024).
One of the most-used GPU VM families on Google Cloud.
Android 14
Preview shown at I/O with lockscreen customization, AI wallpapers, security upgrades.
Released October 4, 2023 — slightly later than the usual August schedule, held back to align with Pixel 8 launch.
Baseline (cross-browser web feature compatibility)
Initiative to clearly mark which web features are safely usable across all major browsers.
Launched at I/O 2023 with web.dev / MDN integration; now a widely-adopted standard maintained with the W3C WebDX Community Group.
Chirp Universal Speech Model
2B-parameter speech model with 100+ language transcription, on Vertex AI.
Shipped on Vertex AI in 2023, evolved to Chirp 2 (2024) and Chirp 3 HD voice with 248 voices in March 2025.
Cinematic Wallpapers
AI-powered 3D parallax effect for any photo wallpaper.
Shipped in the June 2023 Pixel Feature Drop, expanded to all Android 14 devices.
Flutter 3.10 + Dart 3.0
Flutter 3.10 with Impeller on iOS, 42% web load time reduction; Dart 3 with sound null safety, records, patterns, and WebAssembly support.
Both shipped during I/O 2023.
Gemini (next-gen multimodal model)
Briefly teased: a next-generation multimodal foundation model 'in training', built from the ground up to be multimodal.
Released as Gemini 1.0 (Nano/Pro/Ultra) on December 6, 2023 — 7 months after the I/O tease. Now Google's flagship model family powering virtually everything Google ships.
The teaser was the most consequential moment of the I/O 2023 keynote.
Generative AI in Search ads (conversational campaign creation)
Natural-language workflow in Google Ads to generate ad assets, with AI-powered Search ads inside SGE.
Conversational ad creation went GA in early 2024. SGE-native ads piloted in late 2023 and rolled into the broader AI Overviews ad experience in 2024–2025.
Generative AI wallpapers
Create custom wallpapers with text prompts via a diffusion model on Pixel.
Shipped on Pixel 8 with Android 14 (Oct 2023), expanded to older Pixels and Pixel 8a (May 2024). Still Pixel-only for first-party — Samsung shipped its own version on Galaxy S24.
Google Home app redesign
New Home app with Favorites/Devices/Automations tabs, plus Wear OS and tablet versions.
Public release on May 11, 2023. Wear OS update mid-May. Tablet UI in June 2023.
Imagen on Vertex AI
Text-to-image foundation model for enterprise on Google Cloud.
GA in June 2023, Imagen 2 (Dec 2023), Imagen 3 (May 2024) on Vertex AI.
Immersive View for routes (Maps)
AI-fused 3D bird's-eye preview of your driving/walking/cycling route, launching in 15 cities by end of 2023.
Launched on schedule (Oct 2023) in 15 cities. Evolved into 'Immersive Navigation' announced in March 2026 with Gemini-powered enhancements.
Hit its 15-city target.
Magic Editor in Google Photos
Generative AI photo editor that can reposition subjects, fill backgrounds, change lighting/sky.
Shipped as Pixel 8 exclusive (Oct 2023), then expanded to Pixel 6+ (May 2024), then to ALL Google Photos users (May 2024) with 10 free saves/month; unlimited on Pixel or Google One Premium.
Maps photo-first search
AI image-recognition search across community photos to find quirky/visual matches in Maps.
Rolled out October 2023 in France, Germany, Japan, UK, US.
Pixel 7a
$499 mid-range Pixel with Tensor G2, 90Hz OLED, wireless charging.
Shipped same day as the announcement (May 10, 2023). Succeeded by Pixel 8a (May 2024) and Pixel 9a (March 2025).
Perhaps the most boring entry on this list — it just worked.
Play Console AI listing generation
AI-generated Play Store listings and review summaries.
Shipped through Play Console in late 2023 and 2024; AI-powered review summaries went GA.
Vertex AI Model Garden + Generative AI Studio
Curated catalog of foundation models (Google + open) and a low-code studio for prompt/tune/deploy on Vertex AI.
Both shipped at I/O and have grown into core Vertex AI surfaces; Model Garden now hosts 200+ models including Gemini, Claude, Llama, and Mistral.
Wear OS 4
New version of Wear OS with backup/restore, Gmail and Calendar apps for watches.
Launched August 2023 on Samsung Galaxy Watch 6, then on Pixel Watch / Pixel Watch 2 in October 2023.
WebGPU in Chrome
Modern GPU API for the web shipping in Chrome 113.
Shipped stable in Chrome 113 in April 2023. Firefox shipped it in July 2025; Safari in 2024 (Tech Preview) / 2025 stable.
On time, multi-browser adoption took 2+ years.
Shipped late 2
Find My Device network
Crowdsourced Bluetooth tracking network for Android, with unknown-tracker alerts and tag support — coming 'summer 2023'.
Delayed nearly a year while Apple shipped matching unknown-tracker protections in iOS 17.5. Finally launched April 8, 2024 — ~10 months late.
Almost a year late vs. announced 'summer 2023' window.
Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex for Android Auto
Audio-only meetings inside the car with simplified controls.
Zoom and Webex shipped Sept 2023. Microsoft Teams — one of the three headline partners — didn't arrive until February 2024, ~9 months late.
Two of three apps shipped on time, but Teams (a marquee promised partner) was >6mo late, so under the strict rubric the bundle is shipped-late.
Scaled back 3
Geospatial Creator (ARCore + Adobe Aero)
Tool to anchor AR experiences to real-world locations using Google's geospatial API, partnered with Adobe Aero and Unity.
Shipped in May 2023 inside Adobe Aero and ARCore. Adoption has remained niche; ARCore itself continues but Adobe Aero was retired in 2024.
Shipped on the day, but Aero — its flagship distribution channel — was discontinued.
Google Wallet RCS boarding passes
Receive flight/train tickets directly in Messages via RCS and save to Wallet — launching with Vietnam Airlines and Renfe.
Shipped May 2023 with the announced partners. Quietly remained niche — limited additional carrier adoption.
Technically shipped, but adoption never spread beyond a handful of partners.
Search Generative Experience (SGE)
Generative AI snapshot at the top of Search results, launching as a Search Labs experiment in the US.
Sat in Labs for ~12 months despite repeated 'coming soon' messaging. Finally launched to all US users in May 2024 — but renamed AI Overviews and immediately went viral for telling people to put glue on pizza and eat rocks. Google then sharply scaled back triggering, removed AI Overviews for many health/medical/sensitive queries, and added more conservative guardrails.
Shipped ~12 months late AND scaled back after the glue-on-pizza fiasco — per stricter rubric, pick the less generous label (scaled-back).
Rebranded 12
Bard (PaLM 2 upgrade, 180-country expansion)
Bard upgraded to PaLM 2, waitlist removed, available in 180 countries, Japanese and Korean added, 40 languages coming.
Shipped on the day. Bard kept evolving (Extensions in Sept 2023, Gemini Pro under the hood in Dec 2023), then was fully rebranded to Gemini in February 2024.
Now lives as the Gemini app.
Codey (code generation model)
PaLM 2 fine-tuned for code, available on Vertex AI (code-gecko, code-bison, codechat-bison).
GA on Vertex AI in June 2023; superseded by Gemini-based Code Assist in 2024. Original Codey endpoints deprecated.
Now Gemini Code Assist.
Duet AI for Google Workspace
Generative AI assistant across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet — Google's Microsoft Copilot answer.
Generally available as a $30/user paid add-on in August 2023. Less than 6 months later, rebranded as Gemini for Workspace (Feb 2024) with new Business and Enterprise tiers.
Duet AI brand had one of the shortest commercial lifespans in Google history.
Med-PaLM 2
Medical-domain LLM at 'expert' clinician level, available to trusted Cloud customers.
GA on Vertex AI (allowlist) in late 2023 as part of MedLM. Google has since announced plans to migrate to a Gemini-based medical model.
MedLM family is what shipped commercially; Gemini-based medical model in research.
MusicLM in AI Test Kitchen
Text-to-music generation, available to try in AI Test Kitchen.
Available throughout 2023 in Test Kitchen, then quietly retired and replaced by MusicFX (Dec 2023). DeepMind's Lyria became the production model and powers DJ Mode / Lyria Realtime.
Brand killed, capability evolved into MusicFX and Lyria.
PaLM 2
New foundation model family (Gecko, Otter, Bison, Unicorn) powering 25+ Google products, Bard, and Vertex AI.
Shipped at I/O 2023 and powered Bard/Workspace for ~7 months, then was effectively superseded by Gemini in December 2023. The Codey/Imagen/Med-PaLM/Sec-PaLM tunes were all migrated to Gemini-based replacements through 2024.
PaLM API was deprecated in favor of Gemini API.
Project IDX (browser-based AI IDE)
Cloud IDE built on VS Code with AI assistance for full-stack web/mobile, waitlist opened August 2023.
Waitlist throughout 2023, open beta May 2024, GA in 2024. Rebranded Firebase Studio at Google Cloud Next April 2025.
Now Firebase Studio with App Prototyping agent.
Project Starline (slimmed-down prototype)
Slimmer 3D telepresence booth using new AI-fused light-field tech, in testing with enterprise partners.
Productized via HP partnership announced at I/O 2024 as 'Google Beam', commercial launch 2025. Still niche enterprise hardware, not consumer.
Now Google Beam, sold through HP.
Project Tailwind
AI-first research notebook that grounds answers in your own uploaded source documents.
Renamed NotebookLM in July 2023, opened to US public Dec 2023, went globally viral in Sept 2024 with the Audio Overviews podcast feature. One of Google's biggest AI hits.
Probably the best outcome of any I/O 2023 announcement.
Sec-PaLM (Security AI Workbench)
PaLM 2 fine-tuned for security, malicious-script explanation, threat analysis.
Shipped to Google Cloud security customers in 2023, then replaced by Sec-Gemini v1 (experimental) in April 2025.
Now Sec-Gemini / Gemini in Google SecOps.
Sidekick in Google Docs
Contextual AI side panel in Docs that reads your document and proactively suggests prompts.
Never shipped under the Sidekick name. The side-panel concept survived inside Duet AI, then again inside Gemini side panel for Workspace.
Lives on as the Gemini side panel in Docs/Sheets/Slides.
Studio Bot in Android Studio
AI coding assistant built on Codey, integrated in Android Studio for code generation and Q&A.
Limited preview in Sept 2023 (US only). Rebranded Gemini in Android Studio in April 2024, upgraded to Gemini 1.0 Pro, available in 180+ countries — and free.
Now Gemini in Android Studio.
Vapor 1
Universal Translator (video dubbing with lip-sync)
Research demo: AI that transcribes, translates, regenerates voice, and lip-syncs the speaker on video.
Explicitly limited to 'authorized partners' at announcement. Never released publicly. The capability resurfaced piecemeal in YouTube auto-dubbing (without lip-sync) in 2024.
Google literally flagged misuse risk on stage — never shipped to consumers.
Killed 4
Magic Compose in Messages
AI-rewrites your draft RCS messages in different styles (Shakespeare, Chill, Lyrical, etc.).
Beta launched May 2023 for Google One subscribers in the US. Never reached general availability in three years and started disappearing from beta builds in Jan 2025. Effectively dead — Gemini in Messages took over the use case.
Never reached GA at promised scope and was pulled from beta — under the strict rubric this is killed, not scaled-back.
Perspectives filter in Search
New 'Perspectives' tab surfacing forum posts, Reddit threads, videos, and personal experiences.
Launched June 2023. Killed and renamed 'Forums' filter in March 2024 — only nine months in production.
Underlying content carousels remain, but the Perspectives label is gone.
Pixel Fold
Google's first foldable phone, $1,799, 5.8" cover + 7.6" inner OLED, Tensor G2.
Shipped on time in June 2023. Discontinued from the Google Store in August 2024 after just 14 months; the line continued as the differently-branded Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
No 'Pixel Fold 2' ever shipped. Line absorbed into Pixel numbering.
Pixel Tablet (with charging speaker dock)
$499 Android tablet with magnetic charging speaker dock turning it into a smart display.
Shipped in June 2023. Sold as dock-less version in May 2024. Pixel Tablet 2 reportedly cancelled in November 2024 over profitability concerns.
Original device still sold, but the product line itself is effectively on ice.