Gemini

Let’s clear up exactly what a Gem actually is, because the marketing name doesn’t really do it justice. You can think of a standard AI like a brilliant, temporary assistant. Every time you open a new chat window, you are starting from scratch. You have spent the first five minutes re-explaining who you are, what your brand voice sounds like, what formatting style you prefer, and which cliches to avoid. It’s an exhausting daily routine for your productivity. A Gem is Google’s solution to that problem. Essentially, a Gem allows you to take a specific set of detailed instructions, a distinct pers

Of all the things Google claims Gemini Omni can do, the most ambitious is also one that's hardest to verify from a demo reel alone. Google says that the model "combines an intuitive understanding of physics" with "Gemini's knowledge of history, science, and cultural context to bridge photorealism and meaningful storytelling." Testing that claim by asking the model to visualize a diagram I found in a textbook makes it far too easy. To stress-test this, I decided to rely exclusively on text-based prompts, giving the model nothing to work from except a written brief. For the first prompt, I asked

There's literally a website called Killed by Google dedicated to tracking every product the company has discontinued, and at this point, the list is long enough to make anyone hesitant about getting too attached to a Google product (no matter how good it may be). Given that NotebookLM spent months as an experiment in Labs, then graduated from it and became a full-fledged product and is where it is today, I don't really think it'll get killed off. But what I covered in the section above does seem plausible. NotebookLM could stop being its own thing, and just become a tab inside Gemini. All that