Google AI: Release Notes

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• Sameer Samat on Android 17 and the Future of Intelligent Computing 30.06.2026 40min

  Sameer Samat, President of Android at Google, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to discuss Android 17 and what it means to shift from operating systems to intelligence systems. Their conversation covers why Android didn't say the word AI once at the Android Show, the new Gemini Intelligence feature suite including Rambler, app automation, Superfill, and generative widgets, and what it looks like when Gemini can see the road with you in a live demo inside a Volvo EX60. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVsdZL2ogY
• Yossi Matias on the golden age of research 22.06.2026 1h 11min

  Yossi Matias, Vice President at Google and Head of Google Research, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to do research at Google scale. Their conversation explores the "magic cycle” of research from breakthrough to real-world impact across flood forecasting, MedGemma, and the just-launched Gemini for Science. Learn more about AI tools for scientific discovery including Co-Scientist and Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), and topics like speculative decoding, generative UI, and quantum computing milestones including the Willow chip. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBwadTeph0&t=1s
• Gemini co-leads on project origins and what's next 22.06.2026 41min

  To mark the launch of Gemini 3.5 Flash, Logan Kilpatrick sat down at Gradient Canopy with four of the people who built it: Jeff Dean, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Noam Shazeer, and Oriol Vinyals. They talked about the origin of the Gemini project, the bet on a single unified model, why each Flash generation now outperforms the previous Pro, and what's coming next. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfpLa5wPGo
• Google I/O 2026 Recap with Logan Kilpatrick, Josh Woodward and Tulsee Doshi 22.06.2026 32min

  Josh Woodward from Google Labs, Gemini and AI Studio and Tulsee Doshi from Google DeepMind join host Logan Kilpatrick to break down the biggest launches from Google I/O 2026, from Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Omni to the debut of Gemini Spark. Their conversation digs into everything from agent payments and voice to predictions for what comes next. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsDSeMXaCak
• Google Maps Leaders Talk About Its Biggest Update in 10 Years 12.03.2026 36min
• Gemini in Workspace: New Ways to Create Faster 12.03.2026 40min

  Google Workspace VP of Engineering Chandu Thota joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the all-new Gemini experience in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive. Gemini can now pull relevant information from your files, emails and the web to help you go from a blank page to a final draft, build entire spreadsheets and create presentation-ready slides. Their conversation covers the engineering journey behind deep canvas integration, user data privacy, and how new personal semantic indexes power features like AI Overviews in Drive. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtKHwlKMBQ
• Gemini in Chrome: Your agentic browsing assistant 12.03.2026 48min

  Rick Osterloh, SVP of Platforms & Devices, and Parisa Tabriz, VP of Chrome, join host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the launch of Gemini in Chrome. They discuss the browser's evolution from a passive window to an active agentic assistant. Learn more about Auto Browse for automating web tasks, on-device creativity with Nano Banana, solving tab overload with History Recall, and the safety guardrails built with the User Alignment Critic. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OR4c87Xt-E
• Inside Lyria 3, Google's music generation model 18.02.2026 36min

  Jeff Chang, Myriam Hamed Torres, and Jason Baldridge from the Google DeepMind team join host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into Lyria 3, Google’s latest music generation model. Their conversation explores the transition from simple audio generation to a model that acts as a collaborative instrument, providing creators with fine-grained control over mood, instrumentation, and vocals. Learn more about the technical challenges of prompt adherence in music, the importance of "vibe" in human evaluations, and the future of layered, iterative music composition. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUpaaU02DM
• Project Genie: Create and explore worlds 30.01.2026 42min

  Diego Rivas, Shlomi Fruchter, and Jack Parker-Holder from the Project Genie team join host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on Google DeepMind’s latest breakthrough in world models. Project Genie is an experimental research prototype that allows users to generate, explore, and interact with infinitely diverse, photorealistic worlds in real-time. Learn more about the shift from passive video generation to interactive media, the technical challenges of maintaining world consistency and memory, and how these models serve as an essential training ground for AI agents. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0W3WlJxRY
• Gemini 3 and Gen UI in Google Search 18.12.2025 21min

  Rhiannon Bell and Robby Stein, Product and Design leads for Google Search, join host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the integration of Gemini 3 into Search. Their conversation explores the evolution of Generative UI, where models act as designers to create bespoke, interactive simulations on the fly. Learn more about the role of Gemini 3 Flash in delivering speed at scale, the development of Search's new "persona," and how models like Nano Banana are powering next-generation data visualization.
• Sundar Pichai: Gemini 3, Vibe Coding and Google's Full Stack Strategy 26.11.2025 27min

  Logan Kilpatrick from Google DeepMind sits down with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet to discuss the launch of Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro and Google's overall AI momentum. They talk about Google’s long-term bets on infrastructure, what it’s actually like to ship SOTA models, and the rise of vibe coding. Sundar also shares his personal launch day rituals and thoughts on future moonshots like putting data centers in space.
• Nano Banana Pro: Hands-on with the World’s Most Powerful Image Model 26.11.2025 36min

  Introducing Nano Banana Pro, a powerful model built on Gemini 3 Pro, designed to enhance text rendering, infographics, and structured content generation. Tune in to learn about Nano Banana Pro’s advanced visual reasoning and multi-turn generation capabilities, and how this next-gen tool enables complex image edits and real-world applications. In this episode, we discuss how user feedback and continuous benchmarking drive model improvements, ensuring a superior experience for developers.
• Koray Kavukcuoglu: “This Is How We Are Going to Build AGI” 25.11.2025 48min

  Join Logan Kilpatrick and Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect of Google, as they discuss Gemini 3 and the state of AI! Their conversation includes the reception of Gemini 3, the ongoing advancements in AI research, and the role of benchmarks in pushing new frontiers. They explore critical areas for Gemini's focus, emphasizing instruction following, tool calls, and internationalization, alongside Google's collaborative approach to AI development.
• Google Antigravity: Hands on with our new agentic development platform 25.11.2025 44min

  Explore Antigravity, Google DeepMind’s innovative new AI developer coding product, with Varun Mohan on Release Notes. This episode dives into Antigravity as a powerful agent development platform, integrating a familiar IDE experience with browser verification and Gemini 3.0 capabilities. Discover how developers can orchestrate complex agentic workflows, leverage artifacts for task communication, and balance AI automation with human collaboration. Learn about the philosophy behind building next-gen agentic experiences, the platform's multimodal strengths, and its role in accelerating software development at scale.
• Gemini 3: Launch day reactions 25.11.2025 42min

  Join us for a special episode of Release Notes as we unpack Gemini 3, Google’s latest AI model with key team members. Learn how Gemini 3 empowers developers with enhanced multimodal understanding, agentic capabilities for complex tasks, and generative interfaces that transform prompts into interactive applications. We discuss real-world use cases, the iterative development process driven by user feedback, and the strategic balance between model performance and broad accessibility across various Google platforms.
• How a Moonshot Led to Google DeepMind's Veo 3 16.10.2025 48min

  Dumi Erhan, co-lead of the Veo project at Google DeepMind, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the evolution of generative video models. They discuss the journey from early research in 2018 to the launch of state-of-the-art Veo 3 model with native audio generation. Learn about the technical hurdles in evaluating and scaling video models, the challenges of long-duration video coherence and how user feedback is shaping the future of AI-powered video creation.
• GDM’s Pushmeet Kohli on solving science's biggest challenges with AI 15.09.2025 37min

  Pushmeet Kohli, Head of Science and Strategic Initiatives at Google DeepMind, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to explore the intersection of AI and scientific discovery. Learn how the team's unique problem-solving framework led to innovations like AlphaFold and AlphaEvolve, and how new tools like AI Co-scientist aim to democratize these types of breakthroughs for everyone. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7mdsL6BHsk
• Behind the scenes of Google's state-of-the-art "nano-banana" image model 27.08.2025 30min

  Join host Logan Kilpatrick in discussion with some of the minds behind Google's new state-of-the-art image model, Gemini 2.5 Flash. Product and research leads from the Gemini team break down the technology behind its key capabilities, including interleaved generation for complex edits and new approaches to achieving character consistency and pixel-perfect control. With Nicole Brichtova, Kaushik Shivakumar, Mostafa Dehghani and Robert Riachi.
• Demis Hassabis on shipping momentum, better evals and world models 11.08.2025 31min

  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
• Building real-time voice applications with Live API 06.08.2025 40min

  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