Google ships a faster, cheaper image model and hands developers conversational video editing News
A lightweight version of Google's image model now makes a picture in about four seconds for a fraction of a cent, while a new video model lets developers edit clips by talking to it.
Google's fast model can now use a computer by itself News
Gemini 3.5 Flash gained built-in 'computer use,' letting one model click, type, and act across browsers, phones, and desktops.
Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June. June is almost over. News
Google said its next flagship would arrive in June; with days left it's still limited preview. The timing is awkward -- it overlaps a gap where another Western flagship is also unavailable.
Two labs race to make AI write whole paragraphs at once instead of word by word News
Diffusion text models generate in parallel blocks rather than left to right; Google's open DiffusionGemma and Inception's Mercury 2 are now in a head-to-head over speed.
Google DeepMind puts $75 million into film studio A24 to build AI moviemaking tools News
A frontier AI lab is investing in a prestige studio to develop production tools hands-on with filmmakers -- officially not a deal to train models on A24's films.
design.md Tool
A simple convention from Google Labs for writing a DESIGN.md file that gives an AI coding assistant the context and intent it needs before it starts writing code, aimed at fewer wrong turns on bigger tasks.
TimesFM Tool
Google's pre-trained foundation model for time-series forecasting — predicting things that change over time, like demand, traffic, or sensor readings — usable out of the box without training your own model.
Nano Banana 2 Lite Tool
Google's fastest, cheapest Gemini image model - a text-to-image picture in about four seconds for roughly three cents per thousand images, built for high-volume use.
Gemini Omni Flash Tool
Google's new video model offering developers programmable conversational editing - generate and revise clips up to ten seconds by describing changes in words.
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use Tool
Google's fast model can now operate a browser, phone, or desktop directly as a built-in tool, with optional confirm-before-acting and auto-stop-on-attack safeguards for building automation agents.