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Google I/O
- sidcool 5mo agoGoogle I/O has been my favorite tech event since 2009 when they launched Google Wave. I was hooked.
- sylens 5mo agoGoogle Wave was ahead of its time. It could've been a meaningful Slack competitor
- svachalek 5mo agoIt's just the performance was ridiculously poor. With like half a dozen people connected, it made 300 baud modems look fast.
- andriy_koval 5mo agolikely because of gwt
- rkagerer 5mo agoI remember that launch. Poor Lars dancing around onstage during the connection hiccups. Google glass skyding in a few years later. Fun times.
- martypitt 5mo agoI wonder if they'll talk about AI?
- re-thc 5mo agoAGI now surely!
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoThat's so 2025 according to Sam Altman though.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoASI now. You'd think contrasted with AGI it would be Artificial Specialized Intelligence, but it's Artificial Super Intelligence. Since AGI already happened and didn't mean anything, the next step is a super AI.
- smallmancontrov 5mo agoOh yeah? My dad works on a super duper AI. It's much better than a super AI.
- devinprater 5mo agoMine works on a Super Dee Duper AI!
- hansvm 5mo agoThat's nothing compared to my (L)udicrously (O)verpowered (L)earner AI.
- DiscourseFan 5mo agoYeah well my dad works ar Nintendo where they have AI that will blow you while doing your taxes
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoI still want the normal definition of AGI... Which my understand is: no more re-training, real time memory and re-learning. The fact they cannot fit a lot of context, or step into "we no longer need to train it" territory tells me, they're farther than they keep pretending they're close to.
- layer8 5mo ago
- ortusdux 5mo agoIt's the free square on the bingo card
- Andrex 5mo agoThe bingo card: https://i.imgur.com/kHPXHal.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/kHPXHal.jpeg
- alizardguy 5mo agoI honestly don't know what I expected, but wow it really is just only ai
- layer8 5mo ago“AI is all you need.”
- miohtama 5mo agoMaybe Google will finally launch a working coding agent
- tempest_ 5mo agoI cant see how they could. The Gemini cli repo was a shit show the last time I looked a month ago and the service itself wouldnt even let me use version > 2.5 even though I was a paying customer.
- r_lee 5mo agoI think they just need to unleash more agents on it to get the ball rolling. any day now...
- londons_explore 5mo agoAntigravity seemed to work well at first, but the same model on the same software now seems to fail to edit most files most of the time, and then get itself tied in knots trying to resolve the error by editing files with awk, sed, grep, etc!
- port11 5mo agoYup. “Wait, let me circle back and fix this another way.” What they can never fix is that plenty of Pro users complain that they never get quota, models are always maxed out. I left, and I can’t believe how much time I wasted in AGY steering Gemini or reminding it that no, you can’t install random new dependencies or disable tests.
- paulddraper 5mo agoGemini CLI works. It's not the favorite, but it's definitely "working."
- sunaookami 5mo agoIt's constantly overloaded and shits the bed. Gemini is so awful, it feels like a GPT-3.5 era model that fails to make basic tool calls.
- porphyra 5mo agothe question is whether they will talk about anything apart from AI lol
- stavros 5mo agoThat was the joke.
- porphyra 5mo agoIt's two slightly different jokes right? The parent comment joke is essentially stating "they are definitely going to talk about AI a lot" and the second joke is stating "they are not going to talk about anything besides AI", which are similar but technically different.
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- sjhatfield 5mo agoI wonder if they will finally GA new flash and pro gemini models
- londons_explore 5mo agoThey will. They've been falling behind on the benchmarks for a few months, and I bet that's because they're waiting for IO.
- daemonologist 5mo agoLooks like Flash 3.5 is GA ("stable"): https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flash https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...
- jklmnopqrstuvw 5mo agoGemini Omni
- jansan 5mo agoI wondered why they updated the Gemini Chat modes today, removing "Thinking" and adding "Thinking level" to Flash. Looks like marketing has been working overtime.
- mrtesthah 5mo agoGemini 3.5 is imminent. https://www.voxelbench.ai/leaderboard https://www.voxelbench.ai/leaderboard
- londons_explore 5mo agoGetting a text based model to design voxel art really doesn't seem to be a good benchmark... Better leaderboard: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text And the order of the top players is very different...
- mrtesthah 5mo agoAll the frontier LLMs are multi-modal.
- londons_explore 5mo agoBut voxel-art isn't one of their modes. For other modes like image generation, the model has a dedicated image head, and is jointly trained.
- 650REDHAIR 5mo agoWhy are these comments being downvoted?
- whalesalad 5mo agoget ready to hear "we can't wait to see what you will build" 10,000 times.
- observationist 5mo agoDevelopers Developers Developers!
- storus 5mo agoAgents Agents Agents!
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- simlevesque 5mo ago"we can't wait to see what you'll ask our models to build !"
- SadErn 5mo ago[dead]
- PunchTornado 5mo agooh my god. i heard it 6 times.
- brcmthrowaway 5mo agoTheres no way Google won't win the AI race $INTC and $GOOG are good buys right now!
- storus 5mo agoWinning the AI race means obsoleting their current profitable business. They might win but at what cost?
- clearstack 5mo agoadvertising is ~76% of Alphabet revenue. Cloud is 12% and growing 30%+, but margins arent comparable yet — search basically prints money, cloud is still scaling to prove it.
- londons_explore 5mo agoAnd most of that ad revenue is google search. But google search has subpar quality for many queries compared to ChatGPT and other AI providers. Even if they did fix the quality issue, nobody has yet got a good way to integrate paid ads within an LLM response. I'd say those are 2 huge risks to their business.
- LocalPCGuy 5mo agoIf you don't think AI will include sponsors/ads/etc once someone comes out on top, well, I might have a bridge to sell you. Seriously though, I'm not sure why Google evolving in this manner precludes them from having a profitable business model. Right now we're subsidizing the costs (probably just a bit) and having ongoing subscription revenue they can increase as needed (particularly in the "google won the race" scenario) will be key before they even have to consider layering advertising on top.
- hadlock 5mo agoI think the difference this time is, anybody can curate a baseline set of training data, there is no need to constantly be scanning the open web and indexing it. Everyone already has "good enough" question-answering capability. There is no option to pay or an ad-free, trackerless search funciton on google, but I can do that with multiple non-google providers. Between LLM and kagi I've managed to largely cut google out of my life for $40/mo. Subsidized LLM will eventually disappear, but I think cost per token will reduce over time to meet the ~$20/mo ad-free tier.
- LetsGetTechnicl 5mo agoWhy would I want to vibe code a "fully functional operating system"?
- amaks 5mo agoIt's an example of AI coding agents successfully completing complex coding tasks.
- gowld 5mo agoI don't want a toy copy of something that already exists. I want something new.
- Andrex 5mo agoTinkering and experimentation. Could be a good use for older hardware. Why not.
- LetsGetTechnicl 5mo agoHow would unoptimized slop code be good for older hardware? That's what Linux and other projects are for. If you wanted to tinker and learn how operating systems work, you'd code one yourself like I did in CS classes. You'd actually learn something and you get the good feeling of having done it yourself.
- globular-toast 5mo agoYou won't understand a thing, though. You already have the source code for Linux, Minix and tons of other OSes, pedagogical or otherwise. Why generate yet another that you won't understand?
- MrDarcy 5mo agoWhy wouldn’t you want to?
- dakiol 5mo agoBecause it would be sponsored by anthropic/google/openai? You cannot do it (typically) without paying for the tokens they only can offer. Programming used to be free, but slowly, we need to pay for every single line of code. It's sickening
- kreddor 5mo agoCouldn't get the "Join the livestream" button to work in Firefox on desktop. No problem in Chrome.
- pingou 5mo agoCouldn't get it to work on Chrome. Had to find the stream on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU
- scosman 5mo agoDoesn't work on Chrome or safari for me
- FergusArgyll 5mo agoI had to disable ublock, maybe you have it installed in firefox and not chrome?
- peter303 5mo agoSame issue in Firefox.
- kgwxd 5mo agoFirefox too.
- 650REDHAIR 5mo agoJust in time for mass cancellations after their usage rug pull! Canceled my $20/mo tier. Two prompts took me into 67% usage. One of those prompts was lost completely and errors out when try to access it. Gemini users are livid.
- babl-yc 5mo agoInteresting that the 3.5 Flash launches before 3.5 Pro. Historically it's been the reverse for Gemini since Flash is distilled from Pro? Are they just training it a bit longer until it tops benchmarks?
- londons_explore 5mo ago3.5 flash is presumably cheaper to run than pro too... Perhaps the company is compute constrained like everyone else is?
- f311a 5mo agoJust a little bit, $9 vs $12 (3.1 Pro, the current PRO).
- londons_explore 5mo agoIt's super hard to know if those prices are reflective of the true cost. Remember that leaderboard position is very important, and many leaderboards are perf/$. So, to push the share price up and be top of leaderboards, the company might falsely quote a loss-leading price, and maybe set quotas so people can't cause too big losses.
- spwa4 5mo agoHere's an evil theory: perhaps they had to really increase the size of Gemini Flash ... because otherwise it would have been close to or maybe even outperformed by Qwen 3.6 27b or something like that. Hence the cost.
- aykutseker 5mo agoflash beating the pro it was distilled from is suspicious, not surprising.distillation usually loses you something. if the smaller model is winning on agentic evals, the more likely read is the evals weren't measuring agent quality in the first place. that's the bigger problem for builders, not which model to pick.
- primaprashant 5mo agoSo Spark is cloud hosted openclaw?
- returnInfinity 5mo ago"Our Model", "Our Model", "Our Model"
- scosman 5mo ago"Join the livestream" button does nothing?
- LetsGetTechnicl 5mo ago"AI Mode" usage is up month over month. Almost like because they forced it upon everyone. Once again, is there any real AI demand?
- p4coder 5mo agoAt the moment, I end up using AI mode only because the ads are not as prominent as the normal search.
- prerok 5mo agoIndeed. Don't worry, ads will be back, just give it some time /s
- LetsGetTechnicl 5mo agoDo you use an adblocker? Google also added a "Web" filter that removes all the AI slop and you can create a link to it: https://udm14.com/ https://udm14.com/
- adithyareddy 5mo agoOnly speaking for myself, but I use it a lot, and intentionally. Enough that I set up a search engine shortcut for it in my browser (g <space> type prompt here <enter>). I much prefer it to having to click through links to find things. My last handful of searches were: - Looking up open hours for a local store - Defining words - "postgres select where string has prefix" - "cloudformation read parameter from ssm" Things where I want to look up a fact, but want an answer right away without having to read through multiple pages.
- breezybottom 5mo agoThat's crazy. Those AI overviews consistently tell me wrong information.
- adithyareddy 5mo agoI agree, the AI overview is definitely worse. I'm talking specifically about the AI mode search (at https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11 https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11). The AI overview seems to be summarizing the search results that were returned for your query already, while AI mode seems like it's doing its own searches based on your query. I would definitely give it a shot if you haven't tried it before.
- jerrygarcia 5mo agoDemo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party
- Corence 5mo agoUnironically you can put "what are good demos for agentic workflows at Google I/O that would be received well by the general public" into Gemini's AI Mode and get better suggestions for use cases than what they're showing.
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- wunderlotus 5mo agoWelp. I bit the bullet. Copied your question, opened the Gemini app on my iPhone, and pasted it to the new 3.5 flash model. IMO, the answer unnecessarily long, the suggestions were on par with what was mentioned and presented during the part of the keynote that I watched. Also, the summary table didn’t render correctly in the app but does render on web. My conclusion: maybe they did use Gemini to brainstorm. Convo link: https://g.co/gemini/share/26a0549dc579 https://g.co/gemini/share/26a0549dc579
- mirsadm 5mo agoIt's gotta be booking a flight or restaurant or something. They demo this every year and it never works.
- satvikpendem 5mo agoI wonder what's in store for the local Gemma models, as well as Flutter. I've been making fully local apps that either download Gemma 4 2B or use the built-in AICore in Android and Apple's Foundation Models. Local models are getting really good these days including web search and tool calling such that for many use cases I don't even need cloud models.
- porphyra 5mo agoKinda annoying how Google always releases new products "in a safe and secure way" to a handful of "trusted testers". They already fumbled their image generation launch with Imagen a couple years ago while DALL-E rolled out in the ChatGPT app, and likewise with video generation. Took a while to regain the mindshare with nano banana. With the new Spark and stuff locked behind "trusted testers", I'm worried that again they will get overtaken by competitors while waiting in the name of "safety".
- VanillaAD 5mo agoYou can tell the labs are scrambling with this agentic nonsense. Nobody really knows what to do with it. All 3 major labs streamlined their desktop apps and plans to be the exact same. And we are still doing email drafts as "consumer use cases". As I'm typing this they are talking about reimagining the search box. They turned it into a chat window. Truly the pinnacle of innovation.
- hyperb1iss 5mo agothe vibes are way off. i miss the old days when i/o was all about android and we were all full of optimism
- IshKebab 5mo agoI agree, they used to be exciting but now it's just AI nonsense, and they basically don't change Android now.
- axus 5mo agoExcept for taking ID of everyone writing Android apps
- afavour 5mo agoIn fairness I don't think that's Google's fault. Circa 2009 we were in a Cambrian explosion of possibility with mobile. These days the tech is just... fine.
- nunez 5mo agoThe Wikipedia article for I/O really underlines how sad it's become: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_I/O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_I/O It went from "Google's take on Apple's WWDC and launches" to "AI everywhere all at once". Like, look at how much awesome shit Google dropped between 2008 and 2020! Really sad. To be clear, it's not just Google. This is happening to all of the big conferences. Nothing but AI. Okay, maybe not CES. But still.
- dvt 5mo agoI was curious and just installed it, and... Antigravity is a literal clone of VSCode. Wtf? Honestly, it's so embarassing. I might write a blog post about this, but I remember falling in love with the art of product watching Google demo Google Wave. Janky sure, ahead-of-its-time maybe, but also visionary and mind-blowing. Here we are almost two decades later and Google is re-releasing something made by Microsoft. The epitome of laziness and uninspired hive-think. Imo, there's so much room for an actual normie end-product that supercharges local work with AI for regular people (office workers, creatives, etc.), but a VSCode clone ain't it. (Insert: fine, I'll do it myself Thanos meme.)
- postexitus 5mo agoErm - It is VSCode.
- MrDarcy 5mo agoWhich is good. Why reinvent this particular wheel? Even I, a grey beard 30 year vim user appreciate VScode as my daily driver.
- evilduck 5mo agohttps://antigravity.google/ https://antigravity.google/ and https://antigravity.google/product https://antigravity.google/product Nowhere on their marketing copy do they own up to that. Even the majority of the UI screenshots intentionally exclude the full UI look and feel and most are plucked out to not even look contextually like they're part of a greater IDE interface. It very much feels like they want to call it their own and not a fork of VS Code. But wait, there's more ... you can also view https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2 where it's no longer a VS Code fork but now a clone of Claude Desktop! I think it's a fair to label this all as unoriginal and uninspiring.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoThe target users for Antigravity don't necessarily know what VS Code is.
- r_lee 5mo agocan't wait to hear all about the new Agentic workflows you can build with AI and build with agentic agent swarms and build more workflows to do more with Enterprise AI with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and elevate efficiency with the power of AI and unlock value with AI agents. also can't wait to hear more about AI integrations across Google AI Workspace, like AI Gmail or AI docs (powered by Gemini Enterprise AI). also can't wait to empower myself with more AI-powered data that will be unlocked with agents. AI.
- vatsachak 5mo agoPowerful. AI
- talloaktrees 5mo agoi went to Google Cloud Next last month, this comment is on point
- gordon_freeman 5mo agoAIAIAIAIAIAI...to<infinity>
- Alive-in-2025 5mo agoI can't think of a way to mock all the ai hype more than what they actually just talk about. "Next, our hacker news AI agent reads and comments for you based on your commenting history, no need to think or do anything at all - we'll automate your time wasting and make better, more relevant jokes than you & your karma score will increase exponentially."
- r_lee 5mo agoso much value unlocked and time saved!
- useruser125524 5mo agooutsource your personality to us you little piggies, num num
- dr_kretyn 5mo ago
- xnx 5mo agoIs Antigravity CLI replacing Gemini CLI?
- primaprashant 5mo agoLooks like it. Found this: > On June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals. https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/ https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...
- sega_sai 5mo agoAnother resident on Google graveyard then...
- surajrmal 5mo agoThankfully yes. It's a much better product.
- hijodelsol 5mo agoIt's discouraging to see Google price Gemini 3.5 Flash at 3x the cost of Gemini 3 Flash. I would think that most people that deployed this model in production would have used it for low latency tasks, classification/categorization, customer support or basic RAG-/RAG-style chatbots. Performance on coding benchmarks is nice and all, but where is the "intelligence too cheap to measure"? This new cost point is quite prohibitive and will eat up a lot of margins if developers adopt it.
- ai_fry_ur_brain 5mo agoExpect all models to increase in price 3x with new releases. They're easing us into the margins they're targeting. Flash 3 wasnt appropriately priced, it was priced to get you used to a certain level of spending, then they'll crank it up and get you used to the next level of spending.
- hijodelsol 5mo agoI am aware that it was likely subsidized or at least did not have appropriate margins. But over time, that same capability should become profitable if parameter efficiency and chips improve. For many customer facing use cases outside of coding assistants, optimizing for speed, basic logic/maths and conversational texts matters much more than being able to use 40 tools simultaneously. I would have hoped that Google would recognize this and keep a dual line up, where Pro and Flash are clearly intended for different market segments. But it seems, it's all in on coding assistants and screw the other use cases.. Now, we might need to change to DeepSeek 4 Flash if Google deprecates 3 Flash.
- dist-epoch 5mo agoIs Gemma 4 31B not enough for your simple tasks?
- parliament32 5mo agoHas your AWS bill gone down in the last decade? Despite "efficiency" and chip improvements? Why would you expect text-generator-as-a-service to be any different?
- akmittal 5mo agoTried Antigravity Gemini 3.5 Flash(High) model and can confirm it is super fast and decent good for non complex tasks.
- postexitus 5mo agoThat Generative UI in Search is amazing, but mocked message from his wife telling him not to use her in demos was cringeworthy.
- arionmiles 5mo agoWatching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.
- krackers 5mo agoIt helped that he actually used and believed in the products he was pitching.
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- itsafarqueue 5mo agoThis is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.
- tomwheeler 5mo agoI'd enjoy someone copying Steve Wozniak even more.
- philistine 5mo agoI'm proud to announce this little blue box, with a single button on it. You press it and you get all the value you can get out of AI. Let's press it. Fart noise
- nunez 5mo agoPeople have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.
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- jdw64 5mo agoThey claim the AI itself built an OS and demoed Doom running on it. Personally, rather than Doom, I think I'll only truly appreciate the real value of this advancement when flawless real-time YouTube subtitle translation actually becomes a reality.
- Analemma_ 5mo agoI don't think you can get much more real-time than what we already have? iOS and Android both do live translations through their respective earbuds at decent latency, you can't get much faster without running into fundamental linguistics limitations. For instance, you can't translate a Japanese sentence into English until you reach the verb at the end; no amount of latency improvement can overcome the fact that languages have different word orders.
- jdw64 5mo agoYou're right, but the YouTube subtitle translation actually isn't working right now. The English captions show up fine, so reading them isn't an issue, but stil
- TacticalCoder 5mo ago> I don't think you can get much more real-time than what we already have? The YouTube real-time translation are utter garbage. And that may the less bad of the real-time translations out there. Still pure garbage. If you watch anything specific to one sport/hobby, the number of words that are incorrectly translated is just wild.
- port11 5mo agoOne can only dream of Gemini Spam-Detector 3.5, which will finally make YouTube useable again. I can’t believe the kind of crap that gets recommended in the Kids app.
- gowld 5mo agoThe first thing mentioned is copying something that exists. The second thing is not.
- LetsGetTechnicl 5mo agoAre the little intro videos for the presenters AI generated? Really depressing compared to the cool intros Apple manages to make without AI.
- han1 5mo agoRemember the good ol' days when we fully owned and controlled our devices? I want that back!
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoWhen was that? When phones used wires?
- lacewing 5mo agoIn the US, wired phones were often leased from the phone company! If you shop for vintage phones from the 1960s, they will often have a decal to that effect. Examples: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/71gAAeSw1URp8QPF/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/71gAAeSw1URp8QPF/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tPAAAeSw~RxqBiLR/s-l1600.webp https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tPAAAeSw~RxqBiLR/s-l1600.webp I think this started to change only in the 1980s and 1990s, thanks to cheaper electronics imported from overseas?
- oceansweep 5mo agoIt was because of anti-monopoly legislation, https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/att-breakup-spinoff.asp https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/att-breakup-spin... ; i.e. breaking up 'Ma Bell' into the baby bells, and the current oligopoly we have instead in the modern day. An older picture showing how they were broken up and then re-merged: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurelings/comments/r24ed0/diagram_of_how_the_baby_bell_breakup_and/#lightbox https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurelings/comments/r24ed0/diagram... or https://legalclarity.org/what-happened-to-the-baby-bells-after-atts-breakup/ https://legalclarity.org/what-happened-to-the-baby-bells-aft...
- han1 5mo agoI had no idea people paid by the minute
- tomwheeler 5mo agoYeah, when I was a kid you had to go to the AT&T store to get a phone.
- n-gt 5mo agoS.O.S (same old $h*t)
- gonzalohm 5mo agoWhat's funny is that they have different categories such as AI, Android, Chrome, but I bet all of them are just AI anyway
- dist-epoch 5mo agoThis is hilarious, on the Antigravity PRICING page there is no pricing information https://antigravity.google/pricing https://antigravity.google/pricing
- shevy-java 5mo agoGoogle recently announced it will extend its AI slop-spam into google search. Now people will see AI-generated slop mixed with ads. Google is trying to kill off the open web here. They tried before, e. g. AMP and what not. I think it is now time for all of us to help retire Google. This planet can only take some Evil - and Google just exceeded planetary limitations.
- PokeyCat 5mo agoUgh. Was really hoping that they were going to actually announce a release date for the display glasses this year at I/O, but it seems that they still don't have the tech ready for this. Audio only this year is a massive disappointment.
- esseph 5mo ago> Audio only this year is a massive disappointment. Maybe for you. There's been a lot of pushback against glasses and video recording.
- PokeyCat 5mo agoThe video recording/cameras I don't necessarily care about nor frankly want, what I want is a nice set of glasses with a HUD untethered from a bulky puck or battery pack. That's a device I've wanted to hack on for a long time - Google Glass was actually something I was interested in sans camera, I think there's still great potential for HUD style devices without the privacy implications of world facing cameras. Was hoping that Google would be able to get the technology there this year for consumers, especially since Meta announced and demoed similar. Seems like Meta is going to be the only game in town for this for the foreseeable future, but I don't trust Meta in the slightest with a device like this from a privacy standpoint nor a platform openness standpoint.
- h14h 5mo agoIs the website broken for anyone else? I'm clicking on "Join the livestream" and nothing is happening.
- unglaublich 5mo agoSame, but it was trivial to find on YouTube instead.
- tmaly 5mo agoI would love to see two things: 1. A new Gemini model that is not quantized. 2. A way to connect NotebookLM notebooks to any agents if you pay for the pro subscription.
- nevi-me 5mo agoThe keynote was the most boring for me. I paused it to go to the bathroom, and even forgot that I was watching it. I think they've lost track of the meaning of IO and its keynotes for users. They should rather have a separate Gemini event like they had a separate Android one last week. They're collectively losing track of their product verticals because they're too focused on shoving AI down everything. Google Home is a cluster-f, basic things keep failing, and every other announcement from the Google Home VP is about Gemini. It took them years to reduce the frequency at which devices go offline. Even their sessions seem underwhelming. It's a mixture of "what's new in X" and "AI" this and that.
- milleramp 5mo agoPeople who were playing the drinking game to this are going to be feeling it tomorrow.
- Glohrischi 5mo agoThey tell you that they increase invest from 10-30billion to 160 billion which will all go into compute and research. This alone is such a crazy time to experience the amount of compute our society is adding globally. Geminis quality increased again + long running agents. This will hurt so many people who do 'stuff on a computer'. If this hits production, i probably would prefer to fire 1-2 collegues and get their salary in tokens. And its only a question of time until someone has the same thoughts about me. Nothing of all of that is underwhelming. How can we have such extrem opposit viewpoints to this?
- ezst 5mo agoWhen the field is so crowded with astroturf and myopic takes that you can no longer tell what's sarcasm and not.
- Glohrischi 5mo agoYou always need to read through the marketing garbage. Nonethless, in comparision to a lot of other companies, Google has Deepmind and the money to just do all of it without spending money which doesn't exist.
- peter303 5mo agoRelatively few industry keynotes have Nobel Prize Winner presenter. Hassabis was promoting the Gemini Scientists Assistant.
- qgin 5mo agoI'm still remembering the demo from many years ago where a bot would voice call a local business and get information for you and report back.