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Google AI: Release Notes

Google AI 27 Episodes Jun 30, 2026

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.

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Sameer Samat on Android 17 and the Future of Intelligent Computing Jun 30, 2026 00:40:09 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 Jun 22, 2026 01:11:34 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 Jun 22, 2026 00:41:59 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 Jun 22, 2026 00:32:08 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=R

Google Maps Leaders Talk About Its Biggest Update in 10 Years Mar 12, 2026 00:36:03 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 Mar 12, 2026 00:40:12 Chapters: 1:15 - Gemini in Docs 3:17 - Which models power Workspace 3:45 - AI Overviews in Drive 5:22 - Rollout and availability 6:33 - Reimagining every Workspace canvas 8:58 - Gemini in Calendar 9:50 - The future of the side panel 11:16 - A new way to work 13:18 - AI-powered slide generation 15:08 - User data and privacy 19:07 - Balancing AI innovation and user trust 22:04 - The powe

Gemini in Chrome: Your agentic browsing assistant Mar 12, 2026 00:48:32 Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 2:49 - Evolution from web apps to integrated assistants 4:37 - Chrome as a platform for personal context 6:38 - Navigating the context overload problem 7:52 - Transforming media in-context with Nano Banana 9:10 - Solving tab overload with history recall 13:28 - The browser as an automated workflow system 15:50 - Demo: Nano Banana 17:20 - Demo: Auto browse 22

Inside Lyria 3, Google's music generation model Feb 18, 2026 00:36:38 1:00 - Defining music generation models1:40 - Lyria as a new instrument3:05 - Connecting language and creative intent5:08 - Guest backgrounds and musical journeys7:57 - Demo: Instrumental funk jam8:29 - Bridging the gap for non-musicians12:03 - Demo: Exploring lyrics and vocals15:07 - The magic of iterative co-creation15:40 - Meeting users across the expertise spectrum17:01 - Empowering new musica

Project Genie: Create and explore worlds Jan 30, 2026 00:42:31 Chapters:00:00 - Intro and defining world models and RL roots01:51 - Demo: Goldfish and shark in underwater world04:59 - Project Genie gallery06:31 - Physics, remixing, and UI prompts11:00 - Demo: Nano Banana mascot “Bob”13:20 - Constraints, generation limits, and infrastructure17:04 - Trusted testers and robotics future28:34 - Frontier prompting and universal simulation29:27 - Cross-Google collab

Gemini 3 and Gen UI in Google Search Dec 18, 2025 00:21:44 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 Nov 26, 2025 00:27:34 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 Nov 26, 2025 00:36:24 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” Nov 25, 2025 00:48:44 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 inter

Google Antigravity: Hands on with our new agentic development platform Nov 25, 2025 00:44:49 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 Nov 25, 2025 00:42:16 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 Oct 16, 2025 00:48:10 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 Sep 15, 2025 00:37:28 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://ww

Behind the scenes of Google's state-of-the-art "nano-banana" image model Aug 27, 2025 00:30:32 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 Aug 11, 2025 00:31:09 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/wa

Building real-time voice applications with Live API Aug 6, 2025 00:40:14 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=4xlwlU6

Building a frontier AI search experience Jul 23, 2025 00:43:16 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 Jul 2, 2025 00:44:17 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 Jun 16, 2025 01:00:27 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 Jun 16, 2025 00:27:19 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=o7U4DV9Fkc0Chapters0:20 - Initial reactions to I/O2:00 - Focus on Gemini’s core text model4:29 - Native audio in Gemini and Veo 38:34 - Insights from model training runs10:07 - Surprises in current AI develop

Google I/O 2025 Recap with Josh Woodward and Tulsee Doshi May 22, 2025 00:40:15 Learn moreAI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/Gemini Canvas: https://gemini.google.com/canvasMariner: 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/aboutNotebook LM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/Chapte

Deep Dive into Long Context May 2, 2025 00:59:32 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 tokens5:27 Context window importance9:53 RAG vs. Long Context14:19 Scaling beyond 2 mil

Launching Gemini 2.5 Mar 28, 2025 00:27:55 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 Mar 20, 2025 00:36:53 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 - Introduction0:59 - Recent Gemini app launches2:00 - Introducing Canvas5:12 - Canvas in actio

Developing Google DeepMind's Thinking Models Feb 24, 2025 01:03:32 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.01:14 - Defining Thinking Models03:40 - Use Cases for Thinking Models07:52 - Thinking Time Im

Behind the Scenes of Gemini 2.0 Dec 11, 2024 00:35:18 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 Dec 5, 2024 00:43:20 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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