Google on Tuesday released Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition), an updated version of Gemini 2.5 Pro that features significant enhancements in real-world coding capabilities and web app building, in early access.
“This builds on the overwhelmingly positive feedback to Gemini 2.5 Pro’s coding and multimodal reasoning capabilities,” Tulsee Doshi, Senior Director of Product Management at Google, said in a news release. “Beyond UI-focused development, these improvements extend to other coding tasks such as code transformation, code editing and developing complex agentic workflows.”
The news comes just over a month after Google unveiled Gemini 2.5, which brought with it improvements to performance, efficiency, and user interaction across various applications.
Google originally planned to roll out the next iteration of Gemini 2.5 Pro at Google I/O later this month, but moved up the launch due to “the overwhelming enthusiasm for this model.” The update allows anyone to build interactive web apps with a single prompt.
According to Google, the improvements in the new update put Gemini 2.5 Pro at the top of the WebDev Arena Leaderboard, gaining +147 Elo points on its predecessor. This leaderboard ranks which models people prefer for building good-looking, functional web apps. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) also boasts an impressive 84.8% score in video understanding on the VideoMME benchmark, Google noted.
The new and improved Gemini 2.5 Pro is available starting today for developers through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and for everyone in the Gemini app.
Google is planning to expand Gemini AI to children under 13 starting next week, per a recent report. The tech giant is reportedly also nearing a deal with Apple to integrate Gemini into iPhones.
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