Google AI: Release Notes
Ever wondered what it's really like to build the future of AI? Join host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the world of Google AI, straight from the minds of the builders. We're pulling back the curtain on the latest breakthroughs, sharing the unfiltered stories behind the tech, and answering the questions you've been dying to ask. Whether you're a seasoned developer or an AI enthusiast, this podcast is your backstage pass to the cutting-edge of AI technology.
Episodes
Koray Kavukcuoglu on frontier models, coding agents, and building AGI
Google DeepMind SVP and Chief AI Architect Koray Kavukcuoglu joins host Logan Kilpatrick to reflect on the journey from DeepMind's early reinforcement learning milestones to Gemini and what it means to build AGI at Google.
Watch along and learn:
* What made Gemini 3.7 Flash a breakthrough for engineers
* The ambitions of the Gemini 4 pre-training run
* What it takes to stay at the frontier of AI
Introducing Gemini Robotics 2
Carolina Parada, Stuart Bowers, Kanishka Rao, and Jie Tan from Google DeepMind join host Logan Kilpatrick inside the Gemini Robotics Lab to introduce Gemini Robotics 2, Google DeepMind's new suite of models bringing whole body intelligence, dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration to general purpose robotics. Their conversation covers the arc from reinforcement learning to vision language action m
Sameer Samat on Android 17 and the Future of Intelligent Computing
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 Ge
Yossi Matias on the golden age of research
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 disc
Gemini co-leads on project origins and what's next
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/
Google I/O 2026 Recap with Logan Kilpatrick, Josh Woodward and Tulsee Doshi
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=
Google Maps Leaders Talk About Its Biggest Update in 10 Years
Miriam Daniel and David Cronin join host Logan Kilpatrick to unveil the biggest update in Google Maps history. This episode explores the launch of Ask Maps, a conversational experience powered by Gemini 3.0 Pro, and Immersive Navigation, a high-fidelity 3D driving experience. Learn how Gemini is making navigation more intuitive, personalized, and stress-free.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.
Gemini in Workspace: New Ways to Create Faster
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 jour
Gemini in Chrome: Your agentic browsing assistant
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 gu
Inside Lyria 3, Google's music generation model
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
Project Genie: Create and explore worlds
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 v
Gemini 3 and Gen UI in Google Search
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 o
Sundar Pichai: Gemini 3, Vibe Coding and Google's Full Stack Strategy
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 lik
Nano Banana Pro: Hands-on with the World’s Most Powerful Image Model
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 conti
Koray Kavukcuoglu: “This Is How We Are Going to Build AGI”
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 in
Google Antigravity: Hands on with our new agentic development platform
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, a
Gemini 3: Launch day reactions
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 f
How a Moonshot Led to Google DeepMind's Veo 3
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
GDM’s Pushmeet Kohli on solving science's biggest challenges with AI
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.
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Behind the scenes of Google's state-of-the-art "nano-banana" image model
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 Sh
Demis Hassabis on shipping momentum, better evals and world models
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/
Building real-time voice applications with Live API
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=4xlw
Building a frontier AI search experience
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
Gemini's Multimodality
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
Building Gemini's Coding Capabilities
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 l
Sergey Brin on the Future of AI & Gemini
A conversation with Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and computer scientist working on Gemini, in reaction to a year of progress with Gemini.
Google I/O 2025 Recap with Josh Woodward and Tulsee Doshi
Tulsi Doshi (Head of Product, Gemini) and Josh Woodward (VP of Google Labs and Google Gemini) join host Logan Kilpatrick from Google I/O 2025 for a special edition of Release Notes. They unpack the latest launches, new models and tools for developers. Listen to learn more about 2.5 Pro Deep Think, Veo 3 and AI coding agents like Jules and Stitch.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Deep Dive into Long Context
Join Google DeepMind's Nikolay Savinov with host Logan Kilpatrick as they discuss scaling context windows into the millions, recent quality improvements, RAG versus long context, and what's next in the field.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NHMJ9mqKeMQ
Launching Gemini 2.5
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
Gemini app: Canvas, Deep Research and Personalization
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 i
Developing Google DeepMind's Thinking Models
Jack Rae, Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for an in-depth discussion on the development of Google’s thinking models. Learn more about practical applications of thinking models, the impact of increased 'thinking time' on model performance and the key role of long context.
Behind the Scenes of Gemini 2.0
Tulsee Doshi, Gemini model product lead, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to go behind the scenes of Gemini 2.0, taking a deep dive into the model's multimodal capabilities and native tool use, and Google's approach to shipping experimental models.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7dw799vu5o
Chapters:
Meet Tulsee Doshi
Gemini's Progress Over the Past Year
Introducing Gemini 2.0
Ship
Smaller, Faster, Cheaper & The Story of Flash 8B
Logan Kilpatrick sits down with Emanuel Taropa, a key figure in the development of Gemini to delve into the cutting edge of AI. Taropa provides insights into the technical challenges and triumphs of building and deploying large language models, focusing on the recent release of the Flash 8B Gemini model.
Their conversation covers everything from the intricacies of model architecture and training
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