On May 6, 2025, Google released an early preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, advancing its capabilities in coding and interactive web application development. This update was made available ahead of its planned debut at Google I/O, responding to strong interest from the developer community. The model is accessible through Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app, supporting global users.
Gemini 2.5 Pro just got an upgrade & is now even better at coding, with significant gains in front-end web dev, editing, and transformation.
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) May 6, 2025
We also fixed a bunch of function calling issues that folks have been reporting, it should now be much more reliable. More details in 🧵 pic.twitter.com/HU9VzvDA5a
Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition introduces significant improvements in code generation, editing, and transformation, particularly for building interactive web applications. It achieved a score of 1499.95 on the WebDev Arena Leaderboard, surpassing previous versions and competitors. The model also demonstrates advanced multimodal reasoning, scoring 84.8% on the VideoMME benchmark for video understanding. Users can utilize the model via the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI, with features like Canvas in the Gemini app facilitating web app creation from simple prompts.
Developed by Google DeepMind, Gemini 2.5 Pro represents the company's most advanced reasoning model to date. It builds upon the Gemini 2.5 series, which introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and multimodal processing. The I/O Edition continues this trajectory, offering developers and users improved tools for complex problem-solving and application development.
