Google Releases Firebase Studio, a Free Alternative Tool to Cursor, Bolt, or v0

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IBL News | Las Vegas

Google released Firebase Studio this month at Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas. This tool — a free alternative to Cursor, Bolt, or v0 — allows users to build apps in natural language, modify them, and deploy them directly in the browser.

Google presented Firebase Studio as a cloud-based agentic development environment to help users prototype, build, and manage full-stack AI apps all in one place. This platform is now in preview.

One way to get started in Firebase Studio is with the App Prototyping agent, which quickly generates functional web app prototypes (starting with Next.js) using prompts, images, or drawings.

Within seconds of clicking “Prototype this app”, Firebase Studio generates a functional Next.js web app. And it’s not just UI.

Firebase Studio automatically wires up Genkit and provides a Gemini API key so AI features work out of the box.

There is a Firebase app hosting feature for a simple deployment.

Firebase Studio takes you from a prompt to a functioning prototype in minutes

 

Gemini makes updates to the app based on your natural language instructions

 

Edit code in Firebase Studio just like you would any other IDE

 

Generate previews on any device from a QR code

 

Firebase Studio takes care of building, server-side, and CDN with Firebase App Hosting

 

You can share a URL and invite others to collaborate inside your same workspace

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Beyond this product, the Google Cloud Next event—covered by IBL News reporters—featured CEO Thomas Kurian’s keynote on AI breakthroughs.

Other key announcements during the event were:

• Ironwood, our 7th-generation TPU built for inference.

• The addition of Lyria to Vertex AI, making it the only platform with generative media models for video, image, speech, and music.

• Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, is gaining new “agentic” capabilities in preview.

• Updates and tools for Gemini in Workspace — Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat, etc.

• Updates to Agentspace and AI Agent Marketplace.

• More tools on the Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework for building agents while maintaining control over agent behavior; and Agent2Agent (A2A), a new open protocol that gives your agents a common language to collaborate no matter what framework or vendor they are built on.

• Gemini 2.5 Flash, Google’s workhorse model with low latency and cost efficiency, will soon be available in Vertex AI.

• Google Unified Security AI-powered security solution.

• The Cloud Wide Area Network (Cloud WAN), a high-speed, low-latency network, was made available to organizations worldwide.