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
Gemini 3.8 Live is rolling out to:
— Consumers: in Search Live
— Developers: in public preview in the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio
— Enterprises: in private preview via Gemini Enterprise (coming soon to Gemini Enterprise Customer Experience)
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking is rolling out to:
— Consumers: in Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp, plus Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in @GoogleWorkspace in @GoogleDocs, and all Google AI subscribers in @gmail and Keep
— Developers: in public preview in the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio
— Enterprises: in private preview via Gemini Enterprise (coming soon to Gemini Enterprise Customer Experience and @GoogleWorkspace business customers)
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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: labs.google/dreambeans
I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin.
Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions and makes trades on coinbase.
Will the fly get rich?
Oh, so this is why we mapped out all 166,000 of the male fruit fly's neurons. Check out the big community effort to show just how much these tiny fly brains are capable of 🪰🧵
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 pics.new
What makes this specific brain map such a massive leap forward?
Our new connectome maps over 166,000 neurons and 125 million connections, and it extends beyond the brain to include the nerve cord, which is analogous to our spinal cord. By comparison, our 2020 hemibrain connectome project with partners, a 3D reconstruction of a portion of the female fruit fly's brain, mapped just 25,000 neurons and 20 million connections.
Plus, having complete maps for both sexes is a game-changer. It finally allows researchers to pinpoint exact structural differences and study how they drive specific biological behaviors.
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? 🧵👇
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