Google AI: Release Notes

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, sits down with host Logan Kilpatrick. In this episode, learn about the evolution from game-playing AI to today's thinking models, how projects like Genie 3 are building world models to help AI understand reality and why new testing grounds like Kaggle’s Game Arena are needed to evaluate progress on the path to AGI.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDochQ2zHs

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Recent GDM momentum
02:07 - Deep Think and agent systems
04:11 - Jagged intelligence
07:02 - Genie 3 and world models
10:21 - Future applications of Genie 3
13:01 - The need for better benchmarks and Kaggle Game Arena
19:03 - Evals beyond games
21:47 - Tool use for expanding AI capabilities
24:52 - Shift from models to systems
27:38 - Roadmap for Genie 3 and the omni model
29:25 - The quadrillion token club

Shrestha Basu Mallick, one of the product leads for the Gemini API, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive of Gemini Live API, Google’s real-time, multimodal interface for developers. Learn about how native audio alongside new capabilities like proactive audio and async function calling unlocks the unique power of audio as an interface.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlwlU6h-wM

0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Live API Overview
3:36 - Why audio is a special modality
5:07 - Speed vs. precision in audio
6:17 - Controllable and promptable TTS
8:31 - What developers are building with the Live API
11:14 - URL context and async calling features
15:02 - Proactive audio and affective dialog
16:55 - Addressing developer feedback
21:54 - Live API roadmap
23:49 - The role of long context
24:57 - What’s next for the Live API
26:41 - State of the AI audio market
30:10 - Advice for developers getting started with the Live API
31:16 - Live API demo
38:10 - Demo wrap up and closing

Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to explore how Search is evolving into a frontier AI product. Their conversation covers the shift from simple keywords to complex, conversational queries, the rise of agentic capabilities that can take action on your behalf, and the vision to help billions of users truly "ask anything." Learn more about the technology behind AI Overviews, AI Mode, Deep Search, and the future of multimodal interaction.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zUB5A_ezIOU

Chapters
01:07 Search as a Frontier AI Product
02:38 Reaching 1.5 Billion Users
03:37 What Is AI Mode?
04:17 Understanding Query Fan-Out
05:18 Balancing Latency and performance with Gemini 2.5 Pro
06:51 How Deep Search works
09:08 Fine-tuning models for product experience
11:24 Shifting user behaviors
14:07 The rise of visual search
16:52 Speech and conversational AI in Search
18:36 Comparing Gemini and Search
20:04 Real-time tool use in Search
22:52 Evolving the Search interface
26:03 Making Search more personal
29:15 The agentic future of Search
31:15 Agents beyond booking tickets
37:11 On-the-fly software creation
38:06 Google DeepMind and Search collaboration
40:08 What's next for Search

Ani Baddepudi, Gemini Model Behavior Product Lead, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into Gemini's multimodal capabilities. Their conversation explores why Gemini was built as a natively multimodal model from day one, the future of proactive AI assistants, and how we are moving towards a world where "everything is vision." Learn about the differences between video and image understanding and token representations, higher FPS video sampling, and more.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Why Gemini is natively multimodal
2:23 - The technology behind multimodal models
5:15 - Video understanding with Gemini 2.5
9:25 - Deciding what to build next
13:23 - Building new product experiences with multimodal AI
17:15 - The vision for proactive assistants
24:13 - Improving video usability with variable FPS and frame tokenization
27:35 - What’s next for Gemini’s multimodal development
31:47 - Deep dive on Gemini’s document understanding capabilities
37:56 - The teamwork and collaboration behind Gemini
40:56 - What’s next with model behavior

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4vXvaRV0dw

Connie Fan, Product Lead for Gemini's coding capabilities, and Danny Tarlow, Research Lead for Gemini's coding capabilities, join host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on how the team built one of the world's leading AI coding models. Learn more about the early goals that shaped Gemini's approach to code, the rise of 'vibe coding' and its impact on development, strategies for tackling large codebases with long context and agents, and the future of programming languages in the age of AI.

Watch on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwbG_m-X-gE⁠

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Defining Early Coding Goals
6:23 - Ingredients of a Great Coding Model
9:28 - Adapting to Developer Workflows
11:40 - The Rise of Vibe Coding
14:43 - Code as a Reasoning Tool
17:20 - Code as a Universal Solver
20:47 - Evaluating Coding Models
24:30 - Leveraging Internal Googler Feedback
26:52 - Winning Over AI Skeptics
28:04 - Performance Across Programming Languages
33:05 - The Future of Programming Languages
36:16 - Strategies for Large Codebases
41:06 - Hill Climbing New Benchmarks
42:46 - Short-Term Improvements
44:42 - Model Style and Taste
47:43 - 2.5 Pro’s Breakthrough
51:06 - Early AI Coding Experiences
56:19 - Specialist vs. Generalist Models

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A conversation with Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and computer scientist working on Gemini, in reaction to a year of progress with Gemini.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7U4DV9Fkc0

Chapters

0:20 - Initial reactions to I/O
2:00 - Focus on Gemini’s core text model
4:29 - Native audio in Gemini and Veo 3
8:34 - Insights from model training runs
10:07 - Surprises in current AI developments vs. past expectations
14:20 - Evolution of model training
16:40 - The future of reasoning and Deep Think
20:19 - Google’s startup culture and accelerating AI innovation
24:51 - Closing

Learn more

• AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/
• Gemini Canvas: https://gemini.google.com/canvas
• Mariner: https://labs.google.com/mariner/
• Gemini Ultra: https://one.google.com/about/google-a...
• Jules: https://jules.google/
• Gemini Diffusion: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini...
• Flow: https://labs.google/flow/about
• Notebook LM: https://notebooklm.google.com/
• Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/

Chapters

• 0:59 - I/O Day 1 Recap
• 02:48 - Envisioning I/O 2030
• 08:11 - AI for Scientific Breakthroughs
• 09:20 - Veo 3 & Flow
• 7:35 - Gemini Live & the Future of Proactive Assistants
• 20:30 - Gemini in Chrome & Future Apps
• 22:28 - New Gemini Models: DeepThink, Diffusion & 2.5 Flash/Pro Updates
• 27:19 - Developer Momentum & Feedback Loop
• 31:50 - New Developer Products: Jules, Stitch & CodeGen in AI Studio
• 37:44 - Evolving Product Development Process with AI
• 39:23 - Closing

Explore the synergy between long context models and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in this episode of Release Notes. Join Google DeepMind's Nikolay Savinov as he discusses the importance of large context windows, how they enable Al agents, and what's next in the field.

Chapters:
0:52 Introduction & defining tokens
5:27 Context window importance
9:53 RAG vs. Long Context
14:19 Scaling beyond 2 million tokens
18:41 Long context improvements since 1.5 Pro release
23:26 Difficulty of attending to the whole context
28:37 Evaluating long context: beyond needle-in-a-haystack
33:41 Integrating long context research
34:57 Reasoning and long outputs
40:54 Tips for using long context
48:51 The future of long context: near-perfect recall and cost reduction
54:42 The role of infrastructure
56:15 Long-context and agents

Tulsee Doshi, Head of Product for Gemini Models joins host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental launch. Gemini 2.5 is a well-rounded, multimodal thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. From enhanced reasoning to advanced coding, Gemini 2.5 can create impressive web applications and agentic code applications. Learn about the process of building Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental, the improvements made across the stack, and what’s next for Gemini 2.5.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Gemini 2.5 launch overview
3:19 - Academic evals vs. vibe checks
6:19 - The jump to 2.5
7:51 - Coordinating cross-stack improvements
11:48 - Role of pre/post-training vs. test-time compute
13:21 - Shipping Gemini 2.5
15:29 - Embedded safety process
17:28 - Multimodal reasoning with Gemini 2.5
18:55 - Benchmark deep dive
22:07 - What’s next for Gemini
24:49 - Dynamic thinking in Gemini 2.5
25:37 - The team effort behind the launch

Resources:

• Gemini → https://goo.gle/41Yf72b
• Gemini 2.5 blog post → https://goo.gle/441SHiV
• Example of Gemini’s 2.5 Pro’s game design skills →  https://goo.gle/43vxkq1
• Demo: Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental in Google AI Studio → https://goo.gle/4c5RbhE

Dave Citron, Senior Director Product Management, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on the latest Gemini updates and demos. Learn more about Canvas for collaborative content creation, enhanced Deep Research with Thinking Models and Audio Overview and a new personalization feature.

0:00 - Introduction
0:59 - Recent Gemini app launches
2:00 - Introducing Canvas
5:12 - Canvas in action
8:46 - More Canvas examples
12:02 - Enhanced capabilities with Thinking Models
15:12 - Deep Research in action
20:27 - The future of agentic experiences
22:12 Deep Research and Audio Overviews
24:11 - Personalization in Gemini app
27:50 - Personalization in action
29:58 - How personalization works: user data and privacy
32:30 -The future of personalization