6. The Pixel household grew
There’s extra to the Pixel household than telephones: This yr additionally marked the debut of the model new Pixel Tablet and its slick docking station. And Pixel Buds Pro received an improve with clearer voice calling, strategies for listening to wellness and extra.
7. Plus, there was Chromebook Plus
We additionally launched Chromebook Plus, a robust, AI-driven gadget with options and instruments particularly designed for any client trying to step up their laptop computer recreation. Chromebook Plus comes with the best-in-class safety and entry to all of the apps customers know and love, and twice the ability, velocity, reminiscence and storage as normal Chromebooks.
8. We welcomed wearable updates
We launched the Google Pixel Watch 2, a extra highly effective smartwatch with improved well being insights and new security options for peace of thoughts, and the Fitbit Charge 6, which comes with real-time coronary heart fee monitoring that connects to suitable train gear plus seven days of battery life. And there have been two main software program upgrades for wearables: The new Fitbit app made its option to the Google Pixel Watch and Fitbit gadgets, and a brand new model of Wear OS introduced new productiveness and leisure options to Google Pixel Watch and different Put on OS-enabled gadgets.
9. We launched new methods to trace your well being
These new merchandise got here with new methods to watch your wellness. Along with our most accurate heart-rate tracking system for Google Pixel Watch in addition to for Fitbit Cost 6, we additionally constructed new instruments like fall detection and oxygen saturation (SpO2) tracking for the Google Pixel Watch.
10. We helped you be ready
We launched extreme heat alerts to assist individuals discover details about warmth waves and expanded flood forecasting to extra areas. And the brand new Pollen API gave builders utilizing Google Maps Platform the flexibility so as to add data on altering allergens in a given space.
11. Google Maps received much more immersive
This yr noticed loads of massive updates for Google Maps, like the beginning of the Immersive View for routes rollout, which lets you visually preview a complete journey — bike lanes, intersections, the place to park and extra — earlier than you even step out the door. Maps additionally helped navigate the nice open air with new features for exploring national parks. Plus we expanded fuel-efficient routing to extra locations to assist fight CO2 emissions.
12. We centered on photograph options
We launched some AI enhancing instruments this yr: Magic Editor, which helps you simply make complicated edits like repositioning the topic of your photograph, and Best Take for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional, which makes use of a sequence of comparable images taken shut collectively that can assist you mechanically create a blended picture with everybody’s greatest expression. To make taking these group images even simpler, we introduced palm gesture selfies — a characteristic that lets you set off the shutter with a wave of the hand. And that can assist you higher get pleasure from and floor your images after the actual fact, we additionally launched a new Memories view for Google Photos.
13. RCS received somewhat richer
Wealthy communication normal, or RCS, is the trendy texting normal around the globe. We’ve been working to assist carriers and smartphone makers undertake this protocol, and it’s paying off: RCS hit 1 billion users in Google Messages this yr! To have a good time, we launched tons of recent options that assist RCS and make Messages even higher for Android customers — for instance, we added end-to-end encryption for group messages and Voice Moods (beta) to accompany your voice messages with enjoyable visible results..
14. Workspace labored laborious
This yr was filled with Google Workspace launches. To call just some: We expanded the AI-powered Smart Compose characteristic to Google Chat, serving to you shortly craft a response in Chat, providing contextually conscious strategies that assist scale back spelling and grammar errors. New building blocks for Workspace made including extra data like extra information or Google Calendar entries simply an @ away. And our new meeting scheduler in Gmail made it simpler so that you can discover time to satisfy immediately out of your inbox.
15. Duet AI for Google Workspace helped you’re employed
Duet AI in Google Workspace is an AI-powered collaborator that may act as a coach, thought associate, supply of inspiration and productiveness booster, that turned usually accessible in August. At present, prospects and trusted testers are utilizing it throughout the Workspace instruments they’ve recognized and beloved for years. For instance: Duet AI in Slides may also help you simply generate photographs on your shows with easy text-based prompts. Duet AI in Sheets can mechanically create customized plans for duties, initiatives or any exercise that you simply need to observe or handle. Duet AI in Gmail may also help you write or refine emails. Duet AI in Meet helps you generate distinctive backgrounds on your video calls, and Duet AI in Docs may also help you write and refine no matter it’s you’re drafting.
16. And we expanded Duet AI in Google Cloud
Duet AI isn’t only for Workspace — we additionally expanded our AI-powered collaborator throughout Google Cloud, offering AI help throughout a variety of Google Cloud services and products to serve extra cloud customers, together with builders, operators, information practitioners, and cybersecurity professionals. For instance: Duet AI for Developers, now usually accessible, helps customers improve software program improvement and supply velocity with a spread of useful options, together with AI code help, pure language chat, AI-assisted troubleshooting, AI-powered sensible actions and decreased context-switching and expedited studying.
17. Passkeys boosted safety
We stepped up safety with passkeys, a less complicated and safer option to signal into your accounts on-line. With passkeys, you employ a fingerprint, face scan or pin to unlock your gadget and signal into your accounts — with out the necessity for a password. Passkeys depend on a kind of expertise known as public key cryptography that makes them safer than passwords — which is why we made them much more accessible by providing them by default throughout private Google Accounts.
18. We gave digital try-ons a attempt
Google launched a brand new AI-powered software that allows you to virtually try on clothing utilizing a various set of 80 actual fashions in a spread of sizes — from XXS to 4XL — in addition to with completely different pores and skin tones, physique shapes, ethnicities and hair varieties.
19. YouTube added new AI instruments for creators and artists
At Made on YouTube 2023, we introduced AI options that can allow individuals to push the bounds of artistic expression together with AI-generated backgrounds for Shorts with Dream Display screen and a brand new cell video manufacturing app known as YouTube Create. And we launched experimental music AI instruments, like Dream Track for Shorts, which permits a small cohort of creators the chance to create as much as 30 second distinctive Shorts soundtracks that includes the AI-generated voice of the collaborating artists of their selection with only a easy immediate!
20. We hung out within the lab
Earlier this yr we launched Labs, a house for Google’s experimental AI instruments and applied sciences. If you join Labs, you may check out initiatives throughout Search, Workspace and extra, and provides suggestions on to the groups who constructed them. One among our Labs choices is NotebookLM, our endeavor to reimagine what note-taking software program would possibly seem like when you designed it from scratch figuring out that you’d have a robust AI mannequin at its core.
21. Chrome received somewhat shinier
We launched a whole new look for the Chrome Web Store in addition to a handful of address bar updates. And when our favourite browser turned 15 this year, we introduced new options — like refreshed icons, new colour palettes and AI-powered extensions — to have a good time.
22. We helped you supply your details
We launched new and up to date present instruments that can assist you truth verify data you see on-line. Fact Check Explorer, which is utilized by truth checkers and journalists around the globe, added an image-checking characteristic so now you may see if different truth checkers have verified it. And Search launched About this image, which brings you details about a picture’s internet historical past, particulars on how web sites use it in addition to its metadata.
23. And the Search continued
2023 marked 25 years of Google Search! And we’re undoubtedly not slowing down: Together with increasing Multisearch and introducing SGE, we added 33 new languages to Google Translate and extra help with science and math. We additionally added upgraded insights on Google Flights that can assist you discover one of the best worth. Plus, Google Trends got a makeover.