Pixel Fold, new A.I features expected

Google is also likely to discuss updates to Android, which is the most used operating system in the world with 3 billion active devices. Android 14 is expected to launch sometime this summer and the company could spend some time talking about some of the new consumer-facing features that will be available.

Google’s also expected to unveil new hardware under its Pixel brand, like the Pixel Fold, Pixel 7a, and a Pixel tablet. Google’s Pixel phones only have about 2% of the U.S. market, according to Counterpoint Research. — Kif Leswing

Ahead of the start of Google I/O, attendees are getting a free concert from indie electronic artist Dan Deacon.

Deacon’s song, “When I’m done dying,” was made partially by Google’s generative AI tools, he said. The background was made by an image generator reacting to the song’s lyrics.

“I’m going to play some songs, and a lot of the content is going to be made using Phenaki, Bard, and MusicLM,” Deacon said. — Kif Leswing

This year, lots of Google’s announcements are expected to center around artificial intelligence. AI has become the hottest part of the technology industry, partially due to attention from OpenAI and rival Microsoft, which has integrated so-called “large language models” that can spit out fluent text and image generators that can spit out original pictures into its Bing search engine.

But Google was heavily involved in the creation of these technologies, in particular, the transformers architecture that ChatGPT and other rivals use. It has its own chatbot, Bard, which is currently limited only to a select…