Google Brings New Conversational AI Features to YouTube and Google Docs

Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference today with eye-popping figures that highlight the explosive growth of its artificial intelligence ecosystem over the past 12 months.

The tech giant revealed that it is now processing over 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month across its various platforms. To put that in perspective, Google was handling 480 trillion tokens a month at last year’s event, marking a staggering sevenfold increase in just a single year. Company execs noted that these tokens represent real-world problems actively being solved by everyday users, developers, and enterprise customers.

Driving this huge volume is Google’s massive global user base. The company now has 13 different products that have passed the 1 billion user mark, with five of those products dominating at more than 3 billion users each. Its flagship AI platform has seen the fastest acceleration, as Gemini users have more than doubled in the last year to surpass 900 million.

To keep that momentum going, Google announced a wave of new conversational AI features scheduled to roll out this summer.

Among the biggest updates is a new feature called Ask YouTube, which introduces a conversational search experience to the video platform. Instead of scrolling through endless search results, users can type a question and receive structured, interactive text responses alongside relevant videos. The feature will launch first in the United States this summer (Canadians will have to wait like everybody else).

Google is also tying conversational AI into its productivity suite. The new Docs Live will allow users to create and edit entire documents completely hands-free. Users can simply speak what is on their mind and let Gemini handle the formatting and writing.

These new conversational tools for Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Keep will be available this summer for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

With AI, more and more people are now just speaking into devices. Say good bye to the keyboard, folks.