At our seventh annual Google for Brazil event, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of opening our doors in this country. In the past two decades we’ve launched features and products tailored for the Brazilian market, invested in growing Google Brazil’s footprint, helped Brazilians improve their digital skills and accompanied businesses in their digital transformation.
In 2024, we contributed more than 215 billion reais to the Brazilian economy through our platforms, including Google Ads, AdSense, Search, YouTube, Android and Google Play. Through Brazil’s tax incentive law, we invested millions of reais in 23 projects in education, health, social assistance, culture and sports, benefiting more than 130,000 people.
Today, we showcased our latest AI advancements to benefit people, businesses and the environment. We also shared how we continue to make our products, including Search, more useful for Brazilians every day.
Bringing more cutting-edge AI tools to Brazil
We strive to connect people with what they need and want; whether it’s finding information, buying a product or watching their favorite soccer league. Here’s a look at some of our latest announcements:
- Google Meet’s speech translator was built with a new technical approach to translation, thanks to AudioLM, a large generative AI audio model from Google DeepMind. In just a few weeks it’ll be available to translate spoken English and Brazilian Portuguese in real time, in a Google Meet call, while preserving your voice, tone, energy and emotion.
- Veo 3, our new state-of-the-art video generation model, is available in Brazil as part of Google AI Pro. It can also generate videos with audio.
- As AI Overviews continue to grow in the country, they can now appear on Google Lens results for queries in Portuguese. With this upgrade, Brazilians can simply point their camera at something, ask a question in Portuguese and get an instant AI-generated snapshot, with links to relevant sites on the web. This encourages more complex questions and deeper exploration.
- This week, we’re making it easier for Brazilians to report incidents on Waze by launching “Conta pro Waze” (Conversational Reporting) in Brazilian Portuguese in beta to trusted testers on Android and iOS. All you need to do is tap the reporting button and speak naturally, as if you’re chatting with a friend. Thanks to Gemini models, Waze will understand what you’re saying and quickly add a real-time report to the map — no need to use a specific voice command or tap extra buttons.
- Take Notes for Me in Google Meet is now available in Portuguese to capture notes and action items in real time and automatically organize them into a document while you focus on your meeting.
- In a couple of weeks, all Brazilian users will have access to AI-generated charts, insights, and Q&A in Sheets via the Gemini side panel in Google Workspace. You can ask Gemini questions about your data and receive valuable insights, such as contextual trends, patterns and correlations between variables.