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A year of Gemini progress + what comes next — Logan Kilpatrick, Google DeepMind

Jul 10, 2025 · 11:58

Logan Kilpatrick, head of product for Google AI Studio at DeepMind, announces the final update to Gemini 2.5 Pro, which achieves state-of-the-art results on Aider and HLE benchmarks. He details Google's 50x increase in AI inference over the past year, driven by merging research and product teams into DeepMind. The episode outlines Gemini's evolution toward a universal assistant that unifies Google products, with upcoming features including proactivity, native audio and video capabilities (Veo), and smaller models. Kilpatrick also previews developer-focused updates: a SOTA embeddings model, a deep research API, and Veo 3 and Imagine 4 in the API, alongside repositioning AI Studio as a dedicated developer platform.

Veo 3 for Developers — Paige Bailey, Google DeepMind

Jun 21, 2025 · 20:37

Paige Bailey, engineering lead for Google DeepMind's DevRel team, presents Veo 3, the latest video generation model that natively produces synchronized audio—dialogue, sound effects, and music—from text and image prompts, marking a leap in coherence, physics simulation, and cinematic control. She demonstrates Veo 2's creative controls like reference-powered videos, outpainting, and character consistency, and shows how video generation has evolved from 2023's choppy clips to Veo 3's polished raccoon dancing in front of pyramids. A key demo replicates a Chick-fil-A commercial: Veo 2 required stitching multiple tools, while Veo 3 produced the full ad from a single prompt. The models are accessible via Vertex AI private preview and Gemini Ultra plans.