Can our TPUs survive and operate in space? Well, we're going to find out. Project Suncatcher is hitching a ride aboard @SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, testing a prototype satellite built in partnership with @planet One small step for TPUs....

My journey to develop AGI spans 25 yrs, including 10+ yrs thinking about technical & societal perspectives at Google DeepMind. AGI is on the horizon - we need deeper understanding of its implications. To help, we've created the DeepMind Institute.

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live, its new Speech to Speech model, with the Extended Thinking (High) variant debuting at #1# on the Artificial Analysis Speech to Speech Index at 82.6, and #1# on our Tau Voice benchmark implementation at 68.6% Gemini 3.8 Live is @GoogleDeepMind's successor to Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a Speech to Speech model that executes tools and API calls in the background while continuing the conversation. It comes in two variants: the standard Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which supports configurable reasoning effort. We evaluated the standard model and the Extended Thinking variant at High reasoning effort through the Gemini Live API. Key takeaways: ➤ Speech to Speech Index: Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) debuts at #1# at 82.6, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 81.5, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 81.3 and GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 80.1. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live debuts at #5# at 76.0, with both variants up on Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High at 71.5 (+11.1 and +4.5 points). The Index averages Speech Reasoning (Big Bench Audio), Agentic Performance (Tau Voice), Arena Preference and Arena Task Success Rate ➤ Speech Agent Arena: Gemini 3.8 Live ranks #2# in preference at Elo 1083, behind Gemini 3.1 Flash Live (1096) and ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 1053, and #2# on Task Success Rate at 93.2%, behind Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 94.6%. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) trails at Elo 990 with 89.1% task success ➤ Tau Voice: Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) takes the top spot on our Tau Voice benchmark implementation at 68.6%, ahead of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 67.9%, GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 59.3% and Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 56.5% - up from 37.7% for Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live scores 30.1% ➤ Big Bench Audio: Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) scores 97.7% on audio reasoning, ahead of Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 97.2% and behind Qwen Audio 3.0 Realtime Plus at 99.2%. The standard Gemini 3.8 Live scores 91.7% ➤ Speed: Average Time to First Audio on Big Bench Audio is 1.18 seconds for Gemini 3.8 Live and 1.35 seconds for Extended Thinking (High), both well ahead of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High (2.99s) and in line with GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at 1.24s and GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 1.34s, though behind Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at 0.70s ➤ Cost: Gemini 3.8 Live costs $0.84 per hour of input audio, the cheapest model in the Index and roughly half the $1.75 of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live High. Extended Thinking (High) costs $3.50 per hour - cheaper than GPT-Live-1 (Sol, low) at $4.47, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 High at $4.80 and GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at $5.83, and ~3.1x cheaper than GPT-Realtime-2.1 High at $10.75 See below for more detail ⬇️

Say hello (literally) to Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, our new SOTA live audio models, available with frontier price + performance. 3.8 Live supports 97 languages (can seamlessly switch), async tool calls, and more!

Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so: - Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers. - Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date. - We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally. - AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity.

AlphaGenome Atlas is an interactive resource, mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion DNA variants. It works in a regular web browser, without any coding required, and is free for academic researchers. Excited for the discoveries to come.

New Gemini voice capabilities are rolling out so you can search your Gmail inbox, organize thoughts and tasks in Keep, and create new Docs, all conversationally. Rolling out now for Google AI subscribers! Docs Live going to be super helpful in particular - see it in action below, and read more here:

Beyond benchmarks, we’re seeing impressive real-world use cases. For example, in evaluations on real Chrome security bugs, 3.8 Flash Cyber produced 2.6x more correct patches for vulnerabilities than larger models. Because of its advanced capabilities, we're giving Government agencies & cybersecurity partners access through the Fairwind program, read more:

We’re also introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, our most capable cybersecurity model. It shows frontier-level performance in discovering vulnerabilities and patching them at scale, with Flash-level speed & pricing. That includes achieving 86.2% on the important CyberGym industry benchmark, plus 47.2% on CWE-Bench for patching. We saw a 70%+ success rate in discovering vulnerabilities across 20 programming languages on our internal benchmark.

Today we’re introducing a new 3.8 Flash model, our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks. It delivers significant leaps from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. On DeepSWE v1.1, it outperforms most larger frontier models in autonomously solving complex engineering problems end to end, at a fraction of the cost. More details here:

Big news: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash has landed #1# in the Text-to-Video Arena and #2# in the Image-to-Video Arena! For Text-to-Video the latest 1.1 model is +20pts above FLUX 3 Video at #3# (1495 pts). For Image-to-Video the release is a strong +25pt improvement from Gemini Omni Flash at #5#, and is only behind MiniMax-H3 in the #1# spot (1494 pts). See more details in the thread. Congrats to the @Google team on this release!

Say hello to Gemini 3.5 Transcribe! - Build apps that understand user speech / intent, even w/ multiple speakers! - Auto-detection of 85+ languages out of the box - Custom vocab adaptation for specialized jargon... SGTM:) API available now in @GoogleAIStudio and Gemini Enterprise, or try it in the Gemini app on macOS or Rambler on Android! More details:

Today, we're introducing industry-specific solutions on Gemini Enterprise, starting with Gemini Enterprise for Legal and Financial Services, with more industries to come. Gemini Enterprise for Legal is designed for law firms and in-house legal teams to help find and synthesize information, and navigate complex matters more efficiently. It has four capabilities →

Remote Control is here! Take Antigravity with you anywhere. Access your active sessions from any modern supported browser or mobile device across iOS and Android. Rolling out to all users starting today, beginning with Ultra subscribers.

Gemini 3.7 Flash smashed previous Gemini growth records in its first week, making it our fastest growing model yet. Great to see the huge excitement from our developer community! Now running in Search and @Geminiapp too.