The ‘Gemini 2 Era’ begins … with screen-sharing? But really, it’s a great free tool, for curiosity satisfying rather than bleeding-edge intelligence. I give you the benchmarks, the highlights and of course, the latest from OpenAI Advanced Voice Mode with Vision. 

Plus Deep Research in Gemini Advanced, Simple Bench updates, Santa and what might be for some of you Google’s deflating admission. 

00:00 - Introduction

00:38 - Live Interaction 

03:43 - Gemini 2.0 Flash Benchmarks 

05:10 - Audio and Image Output

06:38 - Project Mariner (+ WebVoyager Bench)

08:49 - But Progress Slowing Down?

10:43 - OpenAI Announcements + Games

https://aistudio.google.com/live

Gemini 2.0 Flash Benchmarks: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/

Project mariner: https://deepmind.google/technologies/project-mariner/

WebVoyager: https://x.com/laurentsifre/status/1858918588683296875/photo/1

Gemini Game play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKuGNHJBGsc

Advanced Voice Mode OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQDnWlwYyQ

https://simple-bench.com/

Claude Computer Use: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/computer-use

Oriol Vinyals Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78mEYaztGaw&t=687s