WTF Gemini 4 ARGON built a highly detailed model of a Pagoda using multi-agent visual critique loops in Antigravity. The model autonomously sculpted a multi-building temple complex with photorealistic architecture, foliage and lighting in Blender.

My biggest takeaways from @JoshWoodward (Head of @Google Labs, the Gemini App, and Google AI Studio) 1. The best ideas almost never come from a design sprint or brainstorm. At Google Labs, the ideas that became NotebookLM, Google Flow, Google Beam, and AI Studio all started with small groups of people who were obsessed with an insight and couldn’t stop themselves from building. These ideas surfaced in the shower, over a weekend, in a hallway. The implication for teams everywhere is that the environment matters more than the process. “You cannot microwave a good idea.” 2. Fall in love with the problem, not the product. Most ideas require three, four, or five significant pivots before they either find traction or get shut down. Teams that get hooked on a specific solution will struggle to make those pivots. Teams that are attached to the problem—the underlying pain point or the user behavior they are trying to shift—can keep adjusting until they get it right. 3. When looking for early PMF, data and retention are important, but the strongest signal of PMF is in people’s eyes. Do they light up? Do they lean in? When you show someone a prototype and they’re genuinely engaged, you feel it. When NotebookLM’s first AI podcast demo was played in a hallway, the reaction was immediate and unmistakable. 4. Keep a list of what is “almost possible,” and move fast when something crosses over. Google Labs keeps a live list of experiences that are almost possible. When something crosses the threshold, Josh describes it as “a phase shift,” like solid to gas, and the team moves immediately. Maintain a running list of things that are almost ready, and have a team positioned to sprint when one of them arrives. 5. Every company needs to think like a labs team now. The underlying technology is changing so fast that what’s possible is shifting from week to week. Which means that every company needs to be spending time playing with the latest models, running far-out experiments, and being first to discover what they unlock before the competition does—and then bringing those discoveries to the rest of the org. 6. When something is not working, the team almost always knows before the leader does. Josh’s instinct as a leader is not to be the one who decides to shut down a project. He watches instead for the passion running out, for the sense that the team has tried everything and nothing is working. His goal is to create an environment where people feel safe enough to say, “I don’t think this is working.” 7. Someone’s “unlearning rate” is one of the most valuable skills right now. Everyone talks about growth mindset and learning speed. Josh is watching for something different: How quickly can someone take an insight, validate or invalidate it through testing, and then let it go? The ability to walk away from a prior belief or approach when the evidence says you should is rare and becoming more valuable. 8. Roles are not blurring into one universal “builder” role. There is a tendency in the current moment to talk as though everyone is becoming a generalist builder. Josh thinks this would be a bad idea. The best people on his teams still have a primary specialty—a major—and also a “minor” they’ve developed. The advice he gives to early-career PMs who are excited about vibe coding and prototyping is clear: build adjacent skills in service of becoming an exceptional PM, not as a replacement for it. 9. A well-designed lab needs isolation, a clear mission, and the ability to create “good trouble.” Three things matter when setting up an internal labs team. First, it needs structural independence, reporting far enough from existing business units that weird ideas can survive long enough to prove themselves. Second, the lab’s mandate has to be explicit: are you graduating ideas to existing products, or inventing new categories? Clarity on that question changes almost every decision. Third, the lab should be a place to challenge how the company itself works, not just what it builds. At Google Labs, that included piloting new job ladders and builder roles before rolling them out more broadly. 10. Google Labs manages the marathon-sprint tension through seasons. At any given time, roughly 20 to 30 experiments are running in parallel, but individual teams experience a defined rhythm: sprints, post-launch recovery, and open exploration periods. After Google I/O each year, many labs teams enter a mode that looks unproductive from the outside: no shipping, just hacking, building, and discovering. Josh treats this as the seedbed for the next season.

Nano Banana 2.1 is here! This upgraded version outperforms our previous models across the board, with notable leaps in: - visual design - mask-based editing - subject consistency - more natural-looking imagery Try it now in @GeminiApp, @GoogleAIStudio, and more.

We have a Stitch MCP. We have a Stitch SDK. But, we don't have a Stitch CLI. Well, not until now. Introducing the @google/stitch CLI: 🔷 Connect to your local coding agents 🔷 Generate screens and design systems 🔷 Send a local dev server snapshot to Stitch Do it all without leaving the terminal or better yet, ask your favorite harness like @antigravity 😎 Learn more 👇

I was curious how far I could push three.js and WebGL this weekend, and ended up building a complete Yosemite photography simulator in a browser tab — real sun, real Moon, real lidar — with a working film camera on a tripod you can take to my favoirte spots in Yosemite.

Now Gemini can connect with 13 new apps like @adobe, @squarespace, @onepeloton, and more. Instead of switching between tabs, you can now grow your business, design assets, and plan your workouts all in Gemini. 🧵

More than 25 million people are using Google Flow every month to dream up new ideas, create stories, and build cool things. Thank you. We’re continuing the 50 additional daily credits for all users. Dive in and keep creating.

CC the entire fam 🤝! Today, we’re announcing the new CC – an AI agent built for families to spend less time on logistics and more time together. You can now: 👤 Add up to 5 members to your CC agent ☀️ Start mornings aligned with a shared "Your Day Ahead" brief email 🗓️ Autosync schedules & to-dos with a shared Google Calendar and Tasks 💬 Coordinate in Google Chat with CC to offload relevant tasks (ie., crafting weekly meal plans, school supply shopping lists, etc) 📝 Delegate paperwork (ie., permission slips, forms, and more) for CC to complete under your direction 📌 Keep tabs on the details – CC remembers what applies to everyone (ie., family grocery lists, favorite restaurants) versus what applies to one person (ie., dietary restrictions, local timezones) Ready to keep everybody on the same page? Join the waitlist or upgrade your existing CC (US only, 18+):

The camera feature in the @Gemini_Notebook mobile app is so transformative for on-the-go research. I was up in the Sierras working on a new project, and I just took photos of everything, like this museum display. Then I asked for a detailed report of all the info in the image. The text below is what I got back. (I fact-checked it myself and it was 99% accurate -- and some of the text it transcribed is so blurry in the image that it was hard for me to read it.) Next step is to generate documents like this for all the photos I took, and then ask Notebook to highlight all the information that adds something new to the existing knowledge base of sources I've already collected, or is particularly relevant to my latest writing and outline for the project. Truly magical. Mariposa Museum Exhibit Reference: Mariposa in 1859 & Gold Rush Era This reference document consolidates all text, photographic captions, historical statistics, newspaper clippings, and exhibit overlays displayed on the Mariposa Museum exhibit panel regarding Mariposa during and after the Gold Rush. 1. Exhibit Overview & Key Headlines Main Title: "THIS WAS MARIPOSA IN 1859 – ONLY 10 YEARS AFTER THE GOLD RUSH BEGAN." Historical Context Sub-headline: "PORTIONS OF THE TOWN HAD BEEN REBUILT AFTER THE FIRE OF 1858.. & PARTS OF IT WERE DOOMED TO BE DESTROYED IN 1866" Display Overview: The exhibit centers on a large 1850s panoramic photograph of Mariposa, annotated with street names, landmark locations, and population statistics, flanked by contemporary hotel advertisements, fire reports, medical artifacts, and photographs of civic buildings. 2. Demographic & Real Estate Statistics (1850s vs. Present) MetricHistorical Value (1850s Gold Rush Peak)Modern Value Town Population~3,000 residents~1,800 estimated Entire Mariposa Diggings Area~15,000 residents— Commercial Establishments15 to 20 stores & saloons, plus hotels— Town Lot Prices00 to 00 per lot— 3. Background Photograph & Civic Infrastructure Background Photo Date: Taken in the 1850s, capturing the rapid growth of the settlement following the initial gold strike. 1854 Mariposa County Courthouse: Shown in the background panorama prior to the construction of its iconic clock tower. A separate framed photograph depicts the completed white wood-frame courthouse with a white picket fence and clock tower. Clock Tower History: The clock mechanism was imported from England and is an 8-day, manually wound instrument. It remains operational today, maintained by the Mariposa Public Works Department. Annotated Overlay Locations on Panorama: 1854 Courthouse: Located at the upper edge of town on Jones Street. Jones Street & Bullion Street: Upper residential and civic thoroughfares. Charles Street (Main Street): Primary commercial artery running through the center of the valley floor. Schlageter Hotel Site: Positioned along Main Street. Mariposa Creek: Flowing along the foreground basin of the town diggings. 4. The Fire of 1866: Mariposa's Second Great Conflagration Below is the complete transcript of the Mariposa Gazette report featured on the panel regarding the disaster of August 25, 1866 (following the earlier destructive fire of 1858): Article Text: "FIRE! MARIPOSA'S SECOND GREAT FIRE" A few minutes after 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 25, 1866 Mariposa was again ruined by a disastrous fire (first in 1858). According to the Gazette (the building was damaged but not destroyed), the fire was believed to have started when "a recently imported printer stepped inside the Free Press office and lighted a cigar. The match had evidently been dropped carelessly amongst the papers on the floor. The Free Press office was located near the corner of Main and 7th Streets and by ten minutes the fire had spread through two blocks. The fire crossed Main Street to the Odd Fellows building and the Methodist Church and soon the buildings on the block between 6th and 7th Streets were burning like so much chaff." Seven full blocks, except for four fire-proof buildings, were totally destroyed. "In one hour about 60 buildings and 77,000 worth of property were destroyed." By early Monday morning the men were clearing away debris and by press time the following Saturday, the Gazette reported that several temporary business structures had already been erected and were open for business. Inventory of Buildings Destroyed in the 1866 Fire: Residential & Civic: 14 Dwellings, 1 Church, 1 Odd Fellows and Masons Hall. Media & Printing: 1 Newspaper Office (Free Press), 1 Newspaper Depot. Hospitality & Retail: 3 Hotels, 5 Retail Stores, 1 Saddlery Shop, 9 Liquor Saloons (several equipped with billiard tables). Services & Trades: 2 Livery Stables, 3 Law Offices, 1 Drug Store, 3 Blacksmith Shops, 2 Carpenter Shops, 2 Shoemaker Shops, 1 Tailor Shop, 2 Butchering Establishments. Outbuildings: Numerous outhouses, private stables, and auxiliary structures. 5. Commercial Hotels & Lodging Gallison Hotel (1887 Advertisement) Location: Main Street, Mariposa (center of business district, opposite Odd Fellows' Hall). Proprietor: Winslow Gallison. Management: Mrs. Gallison individually superintended all internal departments of the hotel. Amenities: Newly furnished rooms, first-class table dining. Mariposa Hotel (1887 Card) Location: Corner of Main and Fifth Streets. Proprietor: Charles A. Schlageter. Target Market: Accommodated general travelers as well as Yosemite tourists on short notice. Amenities: Family rooms, well-lighted parlors, good table, and bath facilities. The Schlageter Hotel Date Built: Built in the 1850s. Architecture: Prominent two-story wooden structure featuring full upper and lower covered verandas. 6. Medical Artifacts & 19th-Century Therapeutics Old Mariposa Hospital A framed historical photograph depicts a two-story wood-frame hospital building with a prominent front porch and side wing (annotated "from Chic Allingham"). Dr. D. Jayne's Family Medicines (1880 Display Broadside) 1. Jayne's Specific for Tape-Worm Diagnosis: Describes tapeworm infections as widespread, noting that discharging white or yellowish segments ("resembling gourd seeds") is the only positive diagnostic proof. Pricing & Ordering: .00 per dose, shipped nationwide via mail from 242 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Usage Instructions: Dissolve powder in a pint of boiling water, drink in three equal hourly doses on an empty stomach. Follow with Cathartic medicines if bowels do not operate in three hours. 2. Dr. D. Jayne's Sanative Pills Formulation: Concentrated, sugar-coated pills. Sold in 50-pill boxes (-bash.25) or 15-pill specimen packets (-bash.10). Prescribed Ailments: Advertised for liver complaints, gout, jaundice, dyspepsia, rheumatism, kidney affections, fevers, nervousness, skin diseases, melancholy, sick headache, and costiveness (constipation). 3. Exhibit Commentary Note A small museum card mounted below the broadside reads: "A man advertises for 'a competent person to undertake the sale of a new medicine' and adds innocently 'It will prove profitable to the undertaker.'"

Today @FastCompany awarded @Google the winner of their 2026 Innovation by Design Awards for our holistic design vision and new AI design language, seen across our products, from @GeminiApp to @GoogleMaps' Immersive Navigation and Search AI Mode. Read the full story.

The Gemini app is now available for Windows. Stay in your flow with help that’s only one shortcut away. Press Alt + Space to polish drafts, summarize long documents, brainstorm new ideas, and create custom images and videos right alongside your favorite tools and daily apps.