Google Pics: Precise control over AI images

One of the most interesting new features is Google Pics — a completely new application for creating and editing images, built on the latest Nano Banana model. Unlike most existing AI generators, where changing a single detail means generating the entire image again, Pics treats each element as a separate object.

What exactly can Google Pics do? Object segmentation allows you to select a specific element and move it, resize it, or completely transform it — for example, change the color of a sweater or turn a dog into a cat without the rest of the image changing. Editing and translating text directly in the image happens while preserving the original design and font. Pics will also be directly connected to Google Slides and Drive, so you'll be able to edit images directly within documents. Additionally, multiple people can work on the same image simultaneously on a shared canvas.

What's crucial is that Google Pics is not a standalone generator but a full-fledged editor. It often happens that you generate a great image but need to change one tiny thing — and you have to start from scratch. Pics solves this by keeping individual objects editable even after generation.

Starting May 19, Google Pics is opening up to a limited group of testers. Over the summer, it will be available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and in preview for Google Workspace business customers. The Google AI Pro subscription starts at around $20 USD per month, with Ultra costing $100 USD per month.

Docs Live, Gmail Live, and voice Keep

Google also introduced new voice features across its office applications. According to company leadership, these are based on technological leaps in audio models and aim to transform dictation from a slow tool into lightning-fast collaboration with AI.

Docs Live: A thinking partner that writes it down

Docs Live works as a thinking partner. Just speak and the AI itself organizes your thoughts, structures the document, and with your permission pulls relevant information from Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the web. Whether you're just thinking out loud or need an initial draft of an article — Docs Live promises to get you to a first version significantly faster. In the future, you'll be able to not only create documents but also edit them directly by voice.

Gmail Live: Ask anything about your mail by voice

The Gmail Live feature enables voice search in your inbox. You can ask "What's my flight number?" or "What's happening at school this week?" and Gmail Live will search your inbox and instantly find the answer. This is a significant speedup compared to manually searching through emails — instead of typing keywords, you just speak.

Keep: Brain dump straight into notes

In the Google Keep app, you'll just need to speak and the AI will automatically convert your thoughts into organized notes and lists. Keep will understand even a chaotic brain dump and arrange everything into a clear structure on its own.

All these voice features are starting to roll out for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and in preview for Workspace business customers over the summer of 2026. Czech availability was not announced separately, but Google typically makes features available in the EU within weeks to months after the US.

AI Inbox opens up to a wider audience

The AI Inbox feature in Gmail, which was previously available only to Google AI Ultra subscribers and business customers, is expanding from I/O 2026 to all Google AI Plus and Pro subscribers. In addition to smart email prioritization, it now offers personalized reply suggestions (AI writes a draft reply that you just review), instant file access (a relevant Google Doc or Sheet link appears right next to the task), and clearer task management (you can mark individual tasks as done or discard unnecessary suggestions).

For the average user, this means the inbox stops being a passive container for messages and becomes an active assistant that sorts, suggests, and reminds on its own.

Google Flow and smart glasses

The company also introduced an extension of Google Flow with a new agent that can plan and execute complex tasks. Flow is built on Gemini models and helps with brainstorming, content creation, and editing. An interesting feature is the ability to "vibe code" directly in Flow — that is, to create tools for video effects, hand-drawn animations, or text layering simply by describing them.

At I/O 2026, Google also detailed its plans for its smart glasses, which it first hinted at last year. Two versions are in the works: audio glasses that offer spoken assistance directly in your ear, and display glasses with information shown directly in front of your eyes. Both work with voice control via Gemini. Audio glasses will hit the market first — in late fall 2026.

What it means for Czech users and businesses

For Czech users, the key point is that Google Pics, Docs Live, and other new features are not primarily limited by region but by subscription tier. If you have Google AI Pro (around $20 USD/month, typically €20 in Europe), you should get access to them over the summer. Czech has long been supported in Gemini; for voice features, Google has not yet stated whether they will support the Czech language — however, it can be expected that if Czech does appear, it will follow the expansion of Gemini Live to regional dialects.

For businesses, it's important that AI Inbox and the new Workspace features will be available within Google Workspace business subscriptions — ideal for Czech companies that want to increase productivity without needing to hire external AI tools. Given that the EU AI Act imposes specific requirements on AI deployment in the workplace, it's significant that Google is building these features on the existing Workspace infrastructure with enterprise security standards.