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How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
May 24, 2026 · 25:13
Ian Ballantyne and KP Sawhney from Google DeepMind explain how the company scales its agentic platform anti-gravity, featuring a Darwinian skills library and quota management prioritizing paying customers. KP explains deep research currently passes huge context blobs, but his focus is replacing them with a shared file system, enabling artifact generation like infographics. Token-hungry agents require brute-force quota limits; 24/7 monitoring stops spikes, and internal teams face worse quotas than customers. Observability uses a custom web app tracing agent trajectories to raw predict requests. The skills library relies on contributions from domain experts, with survival through evaluation in sandboxed environments. For code review, per-language auto-review models fine-tuned on style guides automatically comment on PRs.

Building Conversational Agents — Thor Schaeff and Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind
Apr 30, 2026 · 1:47:34
Thor Schaeff and Philipp Schmid of Google DeepMind demonstrate building conversational agents with the Gemini Interactions API and Live API, arguing that the new Interactions API simplifies agent development by introducing server-side state management, unified content blocks, and remote MCP support. They walk through creating a coding agent with read/write file and bash tools using Gemini 3 Flash, highlighting how the model uses tool calling to execute commands and return results. The Live API, powering real-time voice and video interactions, supports native multilingual audio, tool calling, and Google Search grounding, though the presenters acknowledge its current limitations in production, including lack of session transcript retrieval and shorter context windows (15 minutes audio-only). They showcase a Live Jukebox demo integrating Lyria 3 music generation and discuss business use cases like Shopify Sidekick, Waymo, and elderly companion apps, emphasizing that while the technology is ready for experimentation, production readiness depends on partner integrations for observability and compliance.

Building in the Gemini Era – Kat Kampf & Ammaar Reshi, Google DeepMind
Dec 15, 2025 · 17:57
Kat Kampf and Ammaar Reshi from Google DeepMind present Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, arguing that these models enable anyone to build complex, aesthetic applications through natural language alone. Gemini 3 achieves state-of-the-art results in one-shot UI design and agentic tool calling, with SweBench outperformance. Nano Banana Pro integrates Google Search for world knowledge and renders text accurately, handling up to 14 consistent people per image. They demonstrate vibe coding in AI Studio, building a personalized comic book with precise text, laptop stickers grounded in search, and a 3D racing game that scaled to 23 players live. Upcoming full-stack runtime adds backend support and automatic database integration, further democratizing software creation.
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