Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More
Google expanded AI Mode in Search to 180 countries in August 2025, powered by Gemini 2.5 with AI Overviews available to teens without sign-in. Volvo’s EX90 demo at Google I/O 2025 showed Gemini handling in-car voice and real-time translation. Gemini CLI was open-sourced in June, offering free access to Gemini 2.5 Pro. Oracle and Google Cloud announced Gemini models would be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure starting August 14.