Google at May I/O 2026 has already begun "tightening the screws" and radically reshaping its infrastructure for developers.

Gemini 3.5 Flash
https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-3-5-flash/
The main "engine" of the announcement was the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, which precedes the upcoming 3.5 Pro. Google claims the model works significantly faster than previous generations and shows frontier-level results in agentic coding tasks: ~76.2% on Terminal Bench 2.1 and ~55.1% on SWE-Bench Pro.

The new Flash is significantly more expensive than the previous one, and the massive use of agents quickly burns through tokens and compute.

$100 Plan
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-io-2026-all-our-announcements/
Google is introducing a new tariff plan — Google AI Ultra for $100 per month, which provides higher limits for using agents in Antigravity. The more expensive enterprise tier is also being updated: instead of simple message limits, a "compute-used" model is increasingly being adopted — actual payment for agent resources and execution.

Everything will be Antigravity
https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-2-0
Previously, Project IDX was based on Code OSS (open-source VS Code). Now the strategy has changed: Google is actively shifting focus from IDX and Firebase Studio toward Antigravity.

Instead of fragmented tools, Antigravity 2.0 is now being promoted — an "agent-first" development platform following the chat-centered approach popular in recent months. This is a direct response to the Codex app and Cursor 3, but with full control by Google over the execution environment, sandboxing, and agent orchestration. They are also moving away from "VS Code-like" editors, but have radically removed the text editor altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3arUEZlv9mc

Judging by the low activity on Hacker News and early feedback on Antigravity 2, it seems many developers haven't switched to active use of the tool after launch — it is perceived more as another experimental AI-IDE than a stable work tool.

From Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI
https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/
Google officially announced the sunsetting of old tools. Most notably, from June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI (open source, daily quotas) and the Gemini Code Assist extension will disappear — they will stop serving requests for free users and even for AI Pro/Ultra subscribers, remaining available only for Enterprise.

Google is effectively shifting focus from Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist to the new Antigravity CLI (closed source), which becomes the primary terminal tool for agentic workflows. Quotas now look less like "number of prompts" and more like a compute usage model — how many agents and resources you actually use. Currently, it performs poorly and is gathering bug reports rather than serving as a developer tool.

In addition to Google's models, two Claude models from Anthropic and, for some reason, GPT-OSS 120B from OpenAI are available. That's it.

Native Android in Google AI Studio
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/build-android-apps-google-ai-studio.html
In Google AI Studio, you can now generate a native Android app (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) from a prompt and run it in an emulator directly in the browser.

If a project becomes complex, Google offers "seamless" export to Android Studio for further agentic development.

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