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“Google I/O Day” by Zvi


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What did Google announce on I/O day? Quite a lot of things. Many of them were genuinely impressive. Google is secretly killing it on the actual technology front.

Logan Kilpatrick (DeepMind): Google's progress in AI since last year:

– The worlds strongest models, on pareto frontier

– Gemini app: has over 400M monthly active users

– We now process 480T tokens a month, up 50x YoY

– Over 7M developers have built with the Gemini API (4x)

Much more to come still!

I think? It's so hard to keep track. There's really a lot going on right now, not that most people would have any idea. Instead of being able to deal with all these exciting things, I’m scrambling to get to it all at once.

Google AI: We covered a LOT of ground today. Fortunately, our friends at @NotebookLM put [...]

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Outline:

(03:21) The TLDR

(05:18) Flow, Veo 3 and Imagen 4

(08:39) Gmail Integration That's Actually Good?

(11:41) Gemini 2.5 Flash

(15:08) Gemma 3n

(16:59) Gemini Diffusion

(17:53) Jules

(18:36) We're in Deep Research

(19:28) Google Search 'AI Mode'

(22:19) AI Shopping

(23:05) Agent Mode

(24:10) Project Astra or is it Google Live?

(25:26) Android XR Glasses

(26:16) Gemini For Your Open Tabs In Chrome

(26:48) Google Meet Automatic Translation

(27:53) We Have Real 3D At Home, Oh No

(30:10) You Will Use the AI

(31:45) Our Price Cheap

(35:06) What To Make Of All This

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First published:

May 21st, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fqoofSWbZbRNeSvEN/google-i-o-day

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