Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More
AI Mode in Search expanded to 180 countries in August 2025, powered by Gemini 2.5 with AI Overviews and sign-in free for teens. Volvo EX90 demo at Google I/O 2025 showed Gemini handling in-car voice tasks, with Gemini Live enabling free-form conversations and real-time translation across 40+ languages. Wear OS 6 introduced the Gemini assistant, and Chrome began a preview of Gemini AI for Pro and Ultra subscribers. Gemini CLI was open-sourced in late June 2025, giving free access to Gemini 2.5 Pro via CLI with a 1-million-token context window and up to 60 requests per minute (1,000 per day).