Check out this week's updates and releases: — Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, two of our most expressive audio generation models yet — Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, bringing near real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI — @Gemini_Notebook Interactive Learning Overviews, giving all users an interactive hub to combine source summaries and artifacts — Live Chat on the @Gemini_Notebook mobile app, bringing real-time, hands-free voice conversations across ~100 languages — Project Suncatcher, our moonshot announced last year, will launch a prototype satellite to test @Google TPUs in orbit and explore solar-powered AI compute in space

It’s time for our end-of-week recap 👇 — Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, our most advanced live dialogue audio models yet — Dreambeans, an experiment from @GoogleLabs that curates a daily personalized collection of stories, is now GA — CC from @GoogleLabs has expanded from a personal productivity tool into a shared agent, designed to help families and households coordinate logistics, schedules, and daily tasks — Google Pics, a new @GoogleWorkspace tool that lets you generate, refine, and co-create images, is now GA — AlphaGenome Atlas, @GoogleDeepMind's new interactive platform for genomics discovery

Introducing our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet 🗣 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking let you speak, collaborate, and execute tasks seamlessly, meaning conversing with AI just got a lot more natural. So, what’s the difference between these two models? Let’s break it down: — Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale, speed, and cost efficiency. It can handle mid-sentence interruptions, transitions across 97 languages on the fly, and understands visual context. Figure out how to fix a broken bike chain, or deal with a leaky pipe just by pointing your camera at the problem area in Search Live for step-by-step audio instructions. — Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking goes one step further to bring increased intelligence to your most complex tasks. It reasons and speaks in parallel, even narrating its progress as it works. This lets it handle multi-step, behind-the-scenes projects, like planning an event, without ever losing the conversational flow. Watch how Gemini 3.8 Live combines real-time video and voice inputs in Search Live to tackle hands-on DIY plumbing tasks step by step 👇

How do you build personalized AI tech that truly understands what matters to you? With Dreambeans from @GoogleLabs, we're safely connecting the dots across your digital life. Instead of siloing pieces of data one app at a time, Dreambeans gathers details from connected sources like @Gmail, Calendar, Search, @GeminiApp, and through face grouping in your @googlephotos. It might notice your friend Beth's birthday is coming up, generate a one-of-a-kind illustrated story of the two of you, and surface the perfect gift ideas. Rather than doomscrolling an endless feed, you’ll get a daily in-app notification from Dreambeans when your customized “stories” are ready. And when a story clicks with you, you can tap the illustrated tile to find additional info and direct links to the next step, whether that’s watching a movie trailer or buying a suggested gift. This experience is opt-in, transparent, and protected by strict privacy filters. And because you are always in control, you can simply tap the "thumbs down" button on any story if a suggestion misses the mark, helping the system learn what is actually useful to you. Get started:

Bring your imagination to life with Google Pics. Built with Nano Banana, Pics makes it easy to generate, refine, and co-create images with unparalleled precision. You can: — Isolate and edit specific objects without altering the rest of your image — Modify or translate text directly inside an image — Share and collaborate with friends and teammates on the same creation — Generate multiple options from a single prompt Google Pics is now available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and most @GoogleWorkspace business customers. Google Pics is also integrated into @googledocs and Slides, and will roll out to @googledrive in the coming weeks. Try it now at

Our @GoogleResearch Connectomics team, in collaboration with @HHMIJanelia, has released the complete wiring diagram of a male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system — the largest brain map by number of proofread neurons to date. So, why do we care so much about a tiny fly's brain? 🧵👇

Check out this week’s shipping recap: — Gemini 3.8 Flash, our most intelligent workhorse model yet, delivers upgrades across coding, agentic workflows, and critical multi-step reasoning. — Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, our most capable cybersecurity model, features frontier-level performance in vulnerability detection and automated patching. — Lyria 3.5, our newest music generation model, is now available via the Gemini API, and across @GoogleAIStudio, @GeminiApp, @FlowbyGoogle, and Google Vids. — WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model, is here from @GoogleDeepMind and @GoogleResearch. — Agentic Video Understanding, our new video analysis feature available via the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, improves accuracy while dramatically reducing token usage and costs.

Here’s what launched this week: — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed to deliver intelligent transcriptions — Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, bringing expanded creative capabilities and controls for video generation and editing — @GeminiApp’s Live experience, moving beyond conversation to complex tasks with new features like Daily Brief, Gemini Spark, Personal Intelligence, and @Gmail inbox management — Expert Intelligence, a new cross-@Google initiative that lets you engage with and combine insights from trusted sources, starting with eligible @GooglePlay ebooks in @Gemini_Notebook

Today we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our latest transcription model built for incredibly precise, smart dictation across your favorite apps and devices. Remember when traditional speech-to-text meant shouting over background noise, constantly hitting backspace to fix misspelled words, and manually deleting every "um" and "uh"? Those days are over. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe isn't just dictation — it’s active intelligence with precise, context-aware speech-to-text support in 85+ languages. The model automatically filters out filler words, formats unstructured speech, and even pairs with your screen context to execute voice commands. Watch as Gemini 3.5 Transcribe removes filler words and uses multimodal capabilities to seamlessly turn messy voice input and local files into a polished email draft.

It’s (finally) Friday 🎉 Here’s our end-of-week recap: — This year’s @madebygoogle lineup (Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag) brings new AI integrations across devices. A few of the key announcements were Magic Capture for simultaneous video and photo capture, Rambler’s AI voice typing and text transformation, and expanded Live Transcribe for real-time ASL-to-text translation using the Pixel camera. Tying it all together is Gemini Intelligence, our proactive, agentic AI layer to anticipate user needs. — Gemini 3.7 Flash, our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents, is now available in the Gemini API via @googleaistudio, @antigravity, Spark in the @geminiapp, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It’s also rolling out to paid users on @googleworkspace, Gemini App, and Search. — @GoogleDeepMind's WeatherNext 2, an AI forecasting tool that can give meteorologists an extra day of accuracy when predicting a cyclone's track, intensity, and wind structure, is now open source. — The upgraded @Gemini_Notebook experience has been fully rolled out to all Pro users and the ability to copy a notebook has been rolled out to all users.

Our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents has arrived ⚡ Meet Gemini 3.7 Flash. — Crush that seemingly endless to-do list. Gemini Spark in the @geminiapp now uses 3.7 Flash. The new model can equip your personal AI agent to work even smarter for you by seamlessly handling complex, multi-step tasks across your @GoogleWorkspace apps like @gmail, @googlecalendar and @googledocs — Enjoy a smoother build experience. The model thinks more diligently, putting more effort into multi-step planning and tool calls. A more disciplined execution means less manual oversight and fewer retries across engineering workflows — Build more, spend less. 3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year with an introductory price of half the original 3.6 Flash cost per million tokens ($0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens)

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! ICYMI, here’s the recap ⬇️ — Gemini Robotics 2 from @GoogleDeepmind brings whole-body intelligence to robots — Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is our fastest, most cost-effective model optimized for high-speed agentic workflows — Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers faster, more accurate performance across tasks while using significantly fewer tokens — Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is our new, cost-effective model optimized for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities at scale, available exclusively to governments and trusted partners — Nano Banana 2 in @GoogleEarth lets you reimagine places and generate custom images using satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — Lyria 3.5 is the newest music model from Google Deepmind, now powering @googleflowmusic — @Gemini_Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) launched Collections, a new way to organize your notebooks

What if you could see a city as it looked 100 years ago, or visualize a new basketball court at your local community center? Starting today, we're bringing our latest image generation capabilities to @GoogleEarth on the web. Powered by Nano Banana 2, you can combine rich satellite and 3D imagery with text prompts to reimagine your favorite place around the globe. Just zoom in, tap “create image,” and type whatever you want to see! Available now for everyone to start creating:

For decades, we’ve dreamed of robots that can seamlessly step into our world and lend a hand. Today, we take a major stride toward making that dream a reality: Introducing Gemini Robotics 2 from @GoogleDeepMind, the intelligence layer powering the next generation of truly adaptable robots. This major advance unlocks intelligent whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and even multi-robot collaboration 🤯. Ok but... how does a robot actually "think"? Real-world tasks take time and planning. To manage that complexity, our new embodied reasoning model, Gemini Robotics ER 2, acts as the robot’s high-level brain, enhancing the robot’s capabilities to: — Observe the environment — Reason about the actions needed to complete the task — Coordinate with the vision-language-action model to carry out actions — Track progress until the job is done This setup allows robots to execute complex multi-step workflows, self-correct if a step fails, and adapt to completely novel situations. Learn more about Gemini Robotics ER 2 (and our two other brand new models) here:

As AI models are now finding vulnerabilities faster than we can fix them, our approach to securing software must be built on highly efficient and capable models. Which brings us to our third (!) model launch of the day: Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber ⚡🛡️ Built on top of 3.5 Flash, in CodeMender (our AI agent for code security) it delivers competitive performance at the frontier. on benchmarks like CyberGym and is optimized for finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities at scale at a lower cost. Given the dual-use nature of this technology, we have taken an intentional approach to its deployment. The model will be available exclusively to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender soon as part of a limited-access pilot program.

Today, we're introducing not one but TWO new models, striking the balance between efficiency and quality to enable you to build production AI agents. — Gemini 3.6 Flash: Addresses efficiency feedback we received from Gemini 3.5 Flash with upgrades in coding, knowledge work, and multimodal tasks faster, more accurately, and with substantially fewer tokens per task — Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: Our fastest, most cost-effective 3.5-class model yet built for agentic workflows, hitting ~350 output tokens/sec with improved coding and overall quality Start building with these today via the Gemini API in @GoogleAIStudio or try them out in the @GeminiApp

3 years ago we started as a tiny experiment with the goal of helping you learn faster. Since then, we grew to bring audio, video, and interactivity to your sources, transitioning from a passive workspace to your true research companion. And now, notebooks have even become an entire ecosystem: you can already access them in the @GeminiApp and soon in Google Search So, with these advancements, it’s time for us to evolve once again: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook ✨📓 The same app you know and love isn’t going anywhere, we just have an updated name that reflects our role in Google's AI portfolio. And our mission stays exactly the same: helping you learn, faster. Thank you for believing in us— this wouldn't have been possible without your passion (and feature requests...) Big things to come (yes, even folders📂!) so stay tuned. Sincerely, The Project Tailwind team

Step into the map with the Street View grounding feature in Project Genie from @GoogleDeepmind and @GoogleLabs. Announced at I/O, this research prototype uses locations from @GoogleMaps Street View as a foundation, letting you generate and explore interactive, 360-degree virtual environments from just a text prompt or real-world starting place. Cool, right? But… How does it actually work? 🤔 As an experimental tool, Project Genie tackles the "blank space" problem (showing both what’s in front of the camera and behind it) by utilizing Street View data to realistically generate a 360-degree view of the location you selected as the starting point for your world to generate from. Worlds generated by Genie are far more dynamic and rich because they’re created frame-by-frame based on the world description and user actions. By predicting each subsequent frame, Genie is able to simulate what it looks like to swim across an ocean, or hike to the top of a peak, marking a massive shift in interactive media and simulation pipelines. What real-world place would you want to step into and explore?