In short
A deep dive into Google AI Studio’s capabilities and roadmap, moving from “vibe coding” and the Playground to Build mode, Deploy, multimodal/live interactions, and long-context/agent-style workflows; also discusses evals, AGI claims, and real-world use cases (gaming, legal, food/nutrition, audio/podcasts).
Guest backgrounds
Logan Kilpatrick is a lead product manager at Google DeepMind, focused on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Key claims
AI Studio is designed to help developers form a mental model of Gemini models and quickly prototype full apps without manually wiring Gemini API calls. Deploy uses Google Cloud Run, Cloud projects, billing, and API key systems to hide full-stack complexity. “Instruction following” is central; chess examples show models can generate Minecraft-like code yet fail basic chess rules, so they’re not at AGI. Long-context vs RAG is a major tradeoff; long context scaling needs architectural innovation. Open models (Gemma) address regulated-industry deployment stability and customization.
Notable examples
Kaggle Game Arena evals (model-vs-model arenas with longer lifespans than static evals), Genie world models for temporally consistent editable game worlds, AI-powered NPCs, “clone your favorite website” workflow, AI podcast creation in your own voice via Gemini text-to-speech, legal long-context needs (1M/2M tokens), and food photo understanding for nutrition tracking (with caveats like container/packaging text).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOExploring Google AI Studio
0:45 to 2:24
Discussion on the capabilities and opportunities of Google AI Studio.
“It is, and I think there are so many things we could really dive into because Google's got, you know, one of the interesting things about Google right now is they have a million things going on.”
Interview Introduction
2:24 to 3:10
Introduction of guest Logan Kilpatrick and his role at Google DeepMind.
“And on that note, let's get on over to the interview.”
Logan's Workflow with AI Studio
3:10 to 6:46
Logan discusses his personal experience and workflow using AI Studio.
“We're trying to see what we can do live in one hour and make happen.”
AI in Game Design
6:46 to 10:46
Exploration of the intersection of AI and video game design, including tools like Godot.
“Grant, I don't know if people, you know, people tell me this and I can't tell if I'm getting gaslit or not because I'm like, I know it definitely works well.”
AI Model Evaluation and AGI
10:46 to 14:03
Discussion on AI model evaluations, their limitations, and progress toward AGI.
“Another gaming related thing was Kaggle Game Arena that DeepMind just launched.”
Model Behavior and Generalization
14:03 to 15:31
Explore how training AI models can lead to better instruction following and generalization across domains.
“So it is fascinating to see that model behavior play out in that way.”
AI Studio and Code Management
15:32 to 18:07
Discussion on the challenges and advantages of using AI Studio for managing large code bases and the effective use of context.
“On the coding side, it seems like a lot of the big AI labs are focusing on agents that can understand large code bases.”
Integrating AI for Real-Time Assistance
18:08 to 20:46
Learn about the versatility of AI Studio, including features like screen sharing and real-time voice interactions.
“where people are trying to build systems, it's not based on the user prompt.”
Text-to-Speech and Podcast Creation
20:47 to 23:26
Discover the capabilities of AI Studio in generating human-like text-to-speech and creating AI podcasts.
“like, you know, I need to email someone and book a trip and do whatever, et cetera, et cetera.”
Experiencing AI in Daily Tasks
23:27 to 26:34
Examine how AI can enhance everyday tasks and workflows, particularly in coding and information retrieval.
“That was the one that people who didn't use AI at work were like, hey, have you seen this thing?”
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Reflections on AI Interaction
26:35 to 28:00
A conversation about personal experiences using AI for ideation and problem-solving, and the importance of integrating AI into creative processes.
“And like, I could go find that person and actually just directly ask them.”
The Evolving Role of AI in Ideation
28:00 to 29:09
Explore how AI complements human creativity and the challenges of intentional usage.
“And it's, it's given me more respect over time for like the, the need to actually pull these tools into the process.”
AI in Legal Practice: Adoption and Challenges
29:10 to 31:06
Discuss the integration of AI in legal contexts and the importance of fact-checking.
“of like you having to be intentional about bringing AI in the loop versus like it just being there and supporting you, which is interesting.”
Context Windows and AI Legal Applications
31:07 to 33:34
Learn about the significance of long context in AI models for legal use cases.
“And it's very distinct from RAG in a lot of ways.”
AI Memory and Information Management
33:35 to 34:56
Investigate how AI can simulate human memory for effective information management.
“So I think you'll need these sit, like human memory has this like interesting, uh, has all these interesting mechanisms to make sure like the stuff that's not useful is removed from your memory.”
Food Analysis Using AI: Practical Applications
34:57 to 36:54
Discover the potential of AI in tracking nutrition through image recognition.
“So this is where having, making it easy for people to build evals and benchmarks is really important.”
Building Practical AI Applications
36:55 to 39:09
Understand how to leverage AI tools for personal application development.
“to go and ask, you know, a hundred million random Americans can, does a product like that exists?”
Google's AI Studio and Open Source Strategy
39:10 to 42:04
Examine Google's approach to AI model deployment and open-source integration.
“The models can do it for you, which is awesome.”
Exploring Medical AI Innovations
42:04 to 43:34
Learn about the exciting advancements in AI applications in the medical field, particularly with models like MedGemma and MedGemini.
“is another one where there's like a huge amount of interest in the medical space.”
The Promise of Vibe Coding
43:34 to 45:56
Discover the concept of vibe coding and its potential to democratize software development, benefiting humanity as a whole.
“the pain of learning how to build software.”
Getting Started with AI Studio
45:56 to 47:48
Find out how to utilize AI Studio effectively, including creative ways to clone websites and reimagine product design.
“If someone listening has never touched AI Studio, what's the first thing that they should use it to build?”
Deep Research in AI Tools
47:48 to 49:22
Uncover the powerful deep research capabilities of AI tools like Gemini and why they are game changers for knowledge workers.
“Well, Logan, thank you so much for joining us today.”
The Future Landscape of AI Development
49:22 to 51:44
Engage in a discussion about the future of AI development, particularly regarding user experience and the role of knowledge workers.
“what Google's doing now and maybe what all's around the corner and just kind of seeing more of the big picture of the Google AI plan, even, I would say, not just limited to Studio.”
AI in Everyday Tasks: Simplifying Workflow
56:00 to 59:54
Learn how AI can take over repetitive tasks and enhance productivity.
“It's like, what are you trying to do today, Corey?”
The Future of AI Operating Systems
59:54 to 1:01:58
Understand the potential of AI operating systems and their integration in daily tasks.
“Can you make sure that I have it before market open every day?”
Work-Life Balance and Remote Work Evolution
1:01:58 to 1:04:29
Explore how AI may change the landscape of remote work and work-life balance.
“you say are working on one of those right now out of the out of just out of the ai labs let's say just out of, and I'm going to include Microsoft here as well.”
Wrap-Up and Future Outlook
1:04:29 to 1:05:25
A summary of key insights and a look at what to expect in the AI space.
“And it might be some solution like combining AI with an Apple Vision Pro kind of thing where, you know, you could do it from your couch.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00So we built three apps in AI Studio on the show a couple weeks ago, but it feels like we've only unlocked maybe 10 % of what this thing could do. So today, we're going to be joined by Logan Kilpatrick from Google DeepMind to explain the rest.
0:21Welcome, humans, to the latest episode of the Neuron, AI Explained. I'm Corey Knowles, joined as always by Grant Harvey. How's it going today, Grant? Doing good, doing good. How are you, Corey? I'm doing good, doing good. Really excited about this call. How about you? Oh, yeah. I cannot wait. I'm a big fan of Logan, so getting to talk to him and pick his brain about everything AI Studio is going to be a serious blast. It is, and I think there are so many things we could really dive into because Google's got, you know, one of the interesting things about Google right now is they have a million things going on.
0:57Oh, yeah. It's like they're constantly shipping something. It may not be a thing we're ever going to touch. It might be specific to researchers in biomedical fields or something, but there's pretty consistently something always coming out of their AI labs. Yeah, I mean, Google has so much stuff, let alone the Gemini app, AI Studio. They've got Notebook LM. They've got their Google Labs where they're creating all this experimental stuff. They've got their Gemini command line tool. They've got Firebase Studio. They've got Jules, which is a new background coding agent. They've got Colab. I mean, there's a lot going on.
1:36There's a lot going on. So yeah, AI Studio is definitely just like the tip of the iceberg, but it's one of the coolest holistic interfaces that Google has. And I think that's why a lot of people are drawn to it and they really like using it. I agree. I think if you're a person who likes to play with what's next, Google AI Studio is like their little free lab where you can go do that. And it's absolutely worth your time to check it out and just try some things. And what's on there changes from time to time. Yeah. And from the little we've seen of Logan's tweets, it looks like they're going through a big redesign.
2:21So there'll be a lot of exciting stuff coming soon. And on that note, let's get on over to the interview. Well, today we have an extra special guest. We're going to be joined by Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind. Logan is the lead product manager on Google AI Studio and Gemini API. And some of today's episode might be a bit more technical than what we usually talk about, but hang in there because there's a lot of really, really great stuff to learn about some awesome tools that are coming out of Google DeepMind right now. So Logan, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm excited. Long time, long time reader and listener.
2:57So this will be fun. I'm excited. Excellent. Well, we actually demoed AI Studio a couple of weeks ago on our show and built three apps with it. But honestly, felt like we were just barely scratching the surface because, you know, it's a podcast. We're trying to see what we can do live in one hour and make happen. um how do you personally use ai studio like what's what's your go-to workflow when you want to build something yeah this uh we were talking right before this off camera about sort of the transitionary period that ai studio is going through and like um so we have you know a traditional playground experience where folks can sort of experience the models and see what they're capable of and the whole point is to sort of um help you as a developer or an ai builder build an intuition and a mental model of like, what are the Gemini models?
3:45And actually more broadly than just Gemini VO, imagine what are Google's models capable of doing? Um, and I think the like builder 1.0 era was the way to do that was in this playground type of environment. I think we've actually moved down beyond that. Now we're like, now people, uh, are, are testing the models in different ways. And that's the way we now, we, I think around like IO this year, um, or even it might've been even before that, we, we released this, um, this build tab on the left-hand side of AI studio where you can go in and actually have the model, like build you an entire app. Um, and for a lot of the things, like it'll build you an app that's in some way powered by Gemini, which is actually really cool.
4:26Um, and so I spent a lot of my time, I'm, I'm again, we're in this weird transitory period where I know how their product is going to evolve. So I'm using the current product and it makes it, it's hard because I'm like, ah, I want the, I want the future version so badly. So I have to like pull myself out of using it too much, but it tends to be like this prototyping of AI experiences is how I spend most of my time. It's like, ah, wouldn't it be cool if you could do this thing with AI in a product? And AI studio is awesome because like I can just put in a really simple prompt and it just like is connected to my Gemini API keys and it's connected to Gemini and all of our other models by default out of the box.
5:04So it makes that iteration loop and process much more simple. I don't need to worry about like, what's the right code snippet to call Gemini or whatever. It's just like, and I think we're really going to lean into that and double down on that. And there's, there's so much more that we can do. So it'll be awesome to see how folks feel about it. It will be. I love the deploy button. That's a thing that I feel like a lot of other tools have missed is the ability to actually send it out and use it. This is one of the cool things for us about like, I know we don't talk about this a ton, but AI studio as a product is built on all of the Google cloud infrastructure.
5:42So deploy as an example is using cloud run behind the scenes. The APIs are using cloud projects. We're using cloud billing. We're using the cloud API key system. So it's like all of these subtle ways in which we can slowly start to expose to users, the complexity in AI builders and developers, is the complexity of actually building like a full stack app without having to sort of, there's obviously lots of complexity of what you could build. And how do you do that in like a really incremental way so that you don't kind of scare people away with the complexity? And I think a lot of cases, there's just, there's so much to do as a developer that it's easy to get scared away.
6:17So Deploy is a great example of like slowly getting people to form a worldview of like what they could be doing or what they should be doing. And yeah, Cloud Run is awesome because it takes care of a bunch of the complexity for us as product builders and we don't need to solve all the edge cases that Cloud Run has solved, which is awesome. Yeah, you completely won me over with the build tool. Like when I first tried that out and then the fact that I could go in there and actually set up an AI powered app in AI Studio, I was mind blown. Grant, I don't know if people, you know, people tell me this and I can't tell if I'm getting gaslit or not because I'm like, I know it definitely works well.
6:56but I get all of these like random emails being like this tool works so much better than everything I've ever tried and I'm like we're really not actually doing anything that complicated right now I think we've got like a really ambitious roadmap and a future version of what we want so it is it is interesting that people are getting value today despite how early we are in that process and I think it just it gives me more conviction that like as we actually land this next few months of roadmap, people are going to be blown away with what we're able to do and build. And hopefully we'll be sitting here again in a few months and you'll be saying the same thing, but you'll be 10 times as excited as you are right now.
7:35Yeah. No, I love to hear it. I love to hear it. So for me, right, for example, I'm dabbling in video game design as a hobby right now. And one of my go-to video game tools is the open source engine, Godot. And so game design with AI is one of the areas that I'm pretty excited about. And I noticed in your recent Developer Notes podcast that you mentioned Vive Coding Games and AI Studio. How do you envision a game designer actually using AI Studio? Like what is that workflow? Because when we tested it, we did like the little, you know, you could create a generative story, kind of like a text-based game.
8:10Is that just scratching the surface? Like what do you think about that? Yeah, that's a great question. I think we're definitely early in that domain. And so for folks who didn't hear that episode, I think this is the one you're talking about with Demis. We were talking about this specifically through the lens of Genie, which is our new world model. And if folks haven't seen this, just go search online for Genie 3 and you'll see some of the videos and it will blow your mind. But essentially, fully functional world models that have temporal consistency where you can make edits to the world. And as you move around and go back to the places you were before, as you'd expect.
8:48And this is perhaps pretty intuitive for people who are thinking about the video game analogy, but like, as you move around a video game, it's deterministic, the files are saved on your computer, et cetera. So as you go back somewhere that you've been before, you assume everything looks the same. World models do not function like that normally because it is actually on the fly generating the actual ecosystem. It's not, there's no like file somewhere that is being referenced from an asset perspective, which is what video game designers would normally do um so there's this whole this whole new paradigm of like what you could potentially build and how you would potentially build we're definitely um probably as early innings as possible of like that like genie world model version of of what's possible um right but even even still i think there's like lots of cool stuff happening in like the ai gaming space where people are using um i talk to folks all the time people are using ai to like build smart teammates and assistants as one as one use case an example i see people doing this with like ai powered npcs which is really cool um right you can also just if you've never built video games before and as somebody who is like dabbled in building video games it's like it's always the like cs 101 problem that i think lots of people are super excited about and it's like you think you're gonna go and learn cs so that you could make games and then you start making games, you realize like, this is really difficult and really hard.
10:14And like, maybe I don't want to make games. I have this, me and my little brother have this conversation all the time because like, he really, you know, he studied computer science and everything because he wanted to make games. And as he started making games, realized like, it's actually not that much fun. So I am optimistic for the world where AI is this interface that like lets people create who want to create. And specifically video games is like one example of the sort of outcome you'd want. But we're definitely early stages of that story. Yeah, that's fair. Another gaming related thing was Kaggle Game Arena that DeepMind just launched.
10:52And that's wild because, you know, that's where AI models compete in chess or go or poker and you can actually watch them, right? It's super cool. I think Game Arena and all credit to the Kaggle team, and obviously DeepMind's been collaborating with them on this but they sort of built the infrastructure to do this and put together the arena and everything like that and um it's a great example of this there are a couple of the different dimensions the the goal for game arena um one it's just like cool to see models play games um and there was lots of people like magnus carlson and others sort of commentating and watching all the all the uh chess games specifically that were happening which is cool um yeah there's definitely an entertainment value of it.
11:31But two, there's this, uh, there's this threat around evals. And for folks who haven't built or aren't following this closely, like the challenge with evals right now is the saturation happens so quickly. Um, you like even, you know, humanity's last exam, which I'll not talk deeply about like what's, what it's actually testing, but it was designed to be a really rigorous and difficult eval that it would take a long time in order to actually have models solve. And I think already today, it's like you're seeing models jump from like zero or 1 % to 40 or 50 % on the order of single digit numbers in months.
12:07It has an expiration date, doesn't it? Yeah. All evals have this expiration date. And that's actually what's interesting about this, these online arena type of evals, which is what you're actually comparing is like models versus one another um so as the model progress continues you actually the like the the puck is always moving uh so relative to static evals it becomes really hard eventually you'd imagine that some of the arenas um would saturate and there's not really you'd get to this like global optima where the models don't actually make it's not interesting anymore but i think they have a much longer lifespan than sort of static evals um so there's something really cool there it's also meant to show and and this was part of the conversation with demis um i don't know if this part was on camera or not but we were talking off camera and it was about the you know people talk a lot about like how close we are to agi and all this other stuff um and obviously there's been like incredible amount of progress on the model side and they're all getting smart and things like that but then you look at these examples where with domain specific systems and with humans um we're really easy easily able to generalize across all these different games um and you look at the models and like the models can't follow the basic instructions of chess like the models want to make all these illegal moves they want to do all this stuff that just like isn't how to actually play the game and is a good reminder that like we're obviously making progress but we're not we're not at agi yet um right there's this like jagged intelligence paradigm where like the models can generate the code for Minecraft or something that looks or feels like Minecraft, and yet at the same time can't follow the basic instructions of chess, which I could probably teach a 12-year-old who's made it through some years of school how to play chess in probably 30 minutes, and they'd be able to pick it up.
14:05So it is fascinating to see that model behavior play out in that way. Do you think that watching their, or I guess like training them with that in mind, or watching them compete against each other can help them generalize across other domains too, like in the agent space? How are you thinking about it? Yeah, this is definitely part of my joke is everything comes back to instruction following. So if you can just make the model better at instruction following, it can do anything. And chess is a good example of that. Technically, if you were to just make the model good at instruction following, you should be able to give it really, really good instructions and it should be able to go in and generalize from that.
14:45The reality is like, it's not that, it's not that clear. And to answer the question specifically, like it's an open research question. Like how much does making the models better at these games actually generalize to other capabilities? Hopefully it does. And you could imagine as part of the original, like deep mind thesis is you teach the models, a bunch of stuff about all these different environments and the reinforcement learning environments, and you can make them really good at domain specific tasks. And then ideally you learn a bunch of capabilities that generalize across a bunch of different stuff.
15:19That is turned out to be like somewhat true in certain areas. And like, maybe we'll end up being more true over time. But it's not like a clear slam dunk. Like you could make, and there's lots of good examples of this, like actually making an AI system, non LLM frontier model that can play all these games was a problem that was solved probably like four or five years ago. um and yet at that time there was nothing like llms they didn't have this general purpose intelligence it wasn't actually that useful like making something by default that is good at playing games doesn't end up being like beneficial for most people um right but making something that's really smart and good at things that can also play games hopefully will will be the um will be the way and i think of like llms as this like delivery mechanism for intelligence that like hopefully continue to generalize across all these different domains.
16:13On the coding side, it seems like a lot of the big AI labs are focusing on agents that can understand large code bases. How would a developer use AI Studio and maybe Gemini CLI differently than just prompting normally? And what's the advantage of the Studio environment? I think for, so we're not like one of the, I was just in a meeting, we were talking about this. One of the explicit things with AI Studio is like we're not trying to solve every problem. So like really there are great tools that are out there in the ecosystem. Some of which are made by Google, like Gemini CLI, some of which are made by the rest of the ecosystem.
16:52and really the sweet spot of what we can do in AI studio is is sort of get you a feel for what the models are capable of hopefully with with all the vibe coding stuff we're doing and with build mode get you a working prototype and then go and get you out into like a full-fledged sort of professional developer product and that could be your IDE of choice your CLI of choice etc right and I think that's where I think that's where the like one of those user journeys is that people care a lot about. I think the one you're describing of like large code bases that already exist, this is actually one of the even more complex problems that AI has to solve.
17:29It is. Because that like text to prompt use case actually works pretty well. The problem with the large code bases if folks haven't had to experience this before is like there's just lots of like context buried in a bunch of different places and it's really difficult to sort of orchestrate this together. And this is like a very human problem. Like I feel this way sometimes and some of Google's code bases because they're large and there's lots of teams contributing to them. And as you sort of try to form an intuition of how these different pieces of software are connected together, it's actually not easy to do that.
18:02And that goes to this like emergent sort of framing of the problem around context engineering where people are trying to build systems, it's not based on the user prompt. It's not like trying to do a bunch of optimization based on the user prompt is trying to do a bunch of optimization on like getting the relevant data to actually help answer the user prompt. And I think that's the large code-based stuff, like some of the most, you know, insert, again, your favorite AI coding tool. This is some of the sweet spot and the magic of what they've figured out is like how to actually go and get the right context to answer questions and use all these like more traditional code understanding tools, like graph techniques and things like that to understand the relationship between different parts of a code base.
18:49And I think that's actually working pretty well. Like I could imagine that continuing to scale up and sort of be good enough for even the most large code bases to work really well with these tools. And I mean, coding is not the only thing that you can do in AI Studio because you can also test out, like, for example, like you can do the screen sharing with voice interactions for real-time assistance, which that is really cool and something that, you know not every tool gives you the option to do um another one would be you know you can you can build you can stream and you can build talking apps that you can actually talk to um that's pretty interesting as well um so there's a lot of things like besides just like like it right i i can't imagine that where it goes from here is it's going to get even more exciting but it ranges the gamut of what you can do which is quite cool yeah you're you're spot on And I think this is part of the challenge for us from a product perspective is we do have this huge breadth of what you can do now from like actually writing code and building a bespoke app to like we have, you mentioned the live API stuff, the stream real time mode and being able to build interactive sort of co-present AI experiences that don't just see text, but they can understand the audio that you're saying.
20:07you can actually share your screen and back to this like context engineering problem what makes using ai products so hard in many ways is that you're you have to do and in most products you have to do the context engineering yourself and this is actually one of the like breakthrough product experience things that a lot of these ide's have done that like has made this helpful is that actually all the context most or if not all the context most of the context you need is in your IDE somewhere. So if you can just traverse through what's in your IDE, you will eventually get all the right context to theoretically solve the problem that you have at hand.
20:42That's actually not true in most products. Like the scope of if I'm trying to solve some, like, you know, I need to email someone and book a trip and do whatever, et cetera, et cetera. The context is spread across potentially the entire internet or some like unbounded state space that I by default don't actually know. And what's cool about the live API and stream real time is basically all this context you need to solve the problem is in some case visible on my screen in some way. Um, like during, throughout the day, all the context for me to do my job, you know, however many hours a day shows up on my computer screen.
21:18The AI system doesn't need some other, you know, access to some other tools. Like all the context is there. It is connected to my computer. It's already present. Um, so there's something really interesting about building infrastructure to do this and i think we're still early in like allowing and like building a bunch of products that make use of that um but i'm excited and then the other use case you mentioned was around text-to-speech and we have a state-of-the-art model uh for text-to-speech and it's it's really cool to see there's been a huge amount of demand um and wasn't a use case that i thought would be like particularly um would like grow particularly quickly but it actually is which has been really interesting to see.
22:00There's like a huge amount of demand for like very native audio sounding or like native human sounding text-to-speech video generation. So you can go into AI Studio and you can test this capability out and things like if folks have used Notebook LM, you could do these like podcast-like generations, which is really cool. And there's lots of other use cases like that. That's awesome. So you can make your own AI podcast in AI Studio? Exactly. You could make your own AI podcast. In your voice. Yeah. in your own voice, which is awesome. Wow. And you can use, this is part of the, like, there's actually not a big gap between being able to do that and what notebook alum is doing, which is interesting.
22:38Like what, what I think people fail to realize about the notebook alum story is that really the, the, I think the audio piece was important and that's why we've externalized the audio piece with, with what we have right now, um, through the Gemini API. and it's like our text-to-speech models. But actually the thing that people were most compelled by was like the humanness of the scripts in No Book LM. And the human scripts were just written by Gemini. There's no, it's like literally prompting. It's prompt engineering and all that stuff. Like there was no like secret sauce of what was happening.
23:13Truly somebody - No fancy magic, no nothing. Nothing. It was the right ingredients. You know, No Book LM was, I would say, the first Google AI product that I heard about organically from other people. That was the one that people who didn't use AI at work were like, hey, have you seen this thing? This is really cool. And they were right, it is really cool. It is, yeah. And what I've loved also is that they've been able to bring a bunch of the things of what folks love about Notebook Alumn to other products. So like the Gemini app now, You can use deep research and then you can create an audio overview, which is the podcast experience that folks loved about notebook alum, based on a deep research report that's 40 or 50 pages long.
24:01So there is this really cool, and notebook alum is part of Google Labs and Google Labs' mission is to build all these frontier experiences and help make that technology more ubiquitous across the rest of Google. So I think it's worked really, really well in the case of notebook alum, which is cool. Yeah, I want everything to talk to me now. It's 2025 that it's taken this long for all of the internet to reach a point where it can talk so well and read the news to me. I use it with scientific papers and academic papers and such. I'll be working or I'll be driving, and I love to just throw it in, hit the button, and I can listen to it and get what I really need from it so easily.
24:44It's a big winner. yeah the driving use case is uh is very important i don't commute to the office but i have been traveling a bunch and like i don't want to use my phone while i'm in a car on the way to the airport or something like that and it's uh being able to just like turn whatever i was trying to grapple with um through notebook alab or the gemini app into an audio overview is is so helpful it is it is this like and but i think this goes to like why having these natively multimodal models is so helpful because like you get the reality is uh the bet on multimodal from a from a gemini perspective is like life is multimodal um being able to understand and talk and and all of these things um the world around you is just like such a critical part of the the path to agi so it's um yeah i i love seeing the the bets actually pay off from a product experience standpoint when when the model ends up working really well for them are you at the point where you feel comfortable like talking with AI in public and or when coding.
25:46Yeah. When coding, I think is actually a really good example of this. I don't, I'm actually not somebody who spends a bunch of time talking to AI. I don't. I'm more of a text person myself. Say it again. Sorry to cut you off. I'm more of a text person myself as well, where I rather text with it, you know? Yeah. I don't, you know, as interesting as it is, like what the thing that is most useful to me that I get excited about is like building stuff for other people. I don't get a lot of like, um, gratification or value out of talking to AI. And I think this is also just like, um, some, this is, you know, I'm, I'm probably in some weird privileged position, but I'm like, I, I work with, and I spend my time around people who I think are just so incredible that it's like, yeah, the AI models are good, but like, I want the person who's like actually the best at this.
26:36And like, I could go find that person and actually just directly ask them. So it makes it, harder to, um, to do that. But I think about like me, you know, eight years ago, learning to code in C++ and like having a horrible experience doing that. And like, I didn't have the person around me all the time who I could like, who would actually help me do the thing I needed to do, which is figure out how to code. And like having an AI tutor that could help me do that would have been like so valuable, um, and not spent my time, you know, getting yelled at on stack overflow or whatever, which was also good.
27:10I use it for problem solving and thinking through an idea. When I have something that's in my head and I want to think through a process, maybe I'm writing something or maybe I'm kind of figuring out what a project's going to look like and I haven't decided yet how I want to structure it. A lot of times I'll do that often while I'm driving or while I'm on a walk or while I'm doing something else. And when I get back, I'll be like, give me a summary of that that I can take and work from. And it's really good about making me kind of consider it outside of the box. Sometimes just saying a thing out loud is enough to really be a difference maker.
27:47For me, I love it. And I know it's a thing so few people use. And I'm like, you guys are missing out. I think if folks haven't done this before, my take, Corey, and I'm curious what your experience was like, but you need a few good examples of the model coming up with an idea that you wouldn't have thought would be helpful and then it kind of clicks like i've done this like historically i was like kind of like i trust my human ideation process and i would intentionally not use ai to do it because i was like you know i i actually have different and perhaps in some context more useful priors than ai systems which are broadly trained on like lots of human knowledge totally and then i've used the tools and then i would get some like really interesting novel idea that I wouldn't have come up with myself.
28:34And it's, it's given me more respect over time for like the, the need to actually pull these tools into the process. Um, I think the challenge is this, uh, how intentional you have to be about using these, the tools right now. Like, I think like, ideally I just do my ideation process the way that works best for me. And the sort of the AI layer is happening seamlessly omnipresent, you know, and enriching whatever my ideas are. I think today it requires like a user to like go out and be intentional about that. And I think we'll move out of that space probably within the next couple of years of like you having to be intentional about bringing AI in the loop versus like it just being there and supporting you, which is interesting.
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29:18Well, some other potentially more niche use cases that are kind of interesting. So legal professionals are either extremely cautious about AI or they're not even fact checking the cases referenced in an AI output before they go to make an argument in court. So how would someone like that, where they're like saying like, hey, like I'm maybe not coding, but I need it for a very specific use case. How could they use AI Studio and Gemini and how would you advise someone? Not in a legal setting, but just like for a niche use case like that, you know? Yeah. One, you should definitely make sure that your law firm allows usage of these tools.
30:01I have maybe a slightly different perspective, which I talked to the CEO of Case Text, which was one of the early sort of successful GPT-based products. and they had early access and they did a bunch of stuff. They ended up selling their company to Thomas, uh, Thompson Reuters, uh, which is like a massive, uh, legal firm. If folks, folks have done legal stuff in the past. Um, and in that conversation with, uh, with Jake talking about like the, the actually how ubiquitous the penetration of AI is in the law in legal today, which was really interesting and not like my, what would have been my conventional wisdom default assumption.
30:46Uh, but they, thompson reuters ran a bunch of i think it was them or one of their partners ran some studies and it was like 99 of lawyers had tried gemini claude or chad gbt um which is crazy and i'm sure they there's like probably some bias sampling i'd assume the like absolute number is probably slightly lower than that um but even in a small subset of people like it's incredible to see how much usage they're getting i think there's a bunch of reasons for that in the legal domain like you know access to you know they have money to spend their high potential roi of like making operations go faster because they're you know uh digging through case law stuff like that that you can only remember so many you can only process so many in a search you can exactly so i think it's one of those examples where like the use case is just like so mission critical to what those folks are doing that like it just becomes easy to buy in um yeah and yeah i think like what one of the biggest points of feedback from from them in the conversation was just around like how much long context matters for this use case and gemini has obviously been at the at the bleeding edge of this with our 1 million token context window and 2 million um and it's been interesting to see how much that still comes up as like a limitation for them um is they they just want long context to bring more context and more documents and more information into the memory of the model.
32:16So I think, and obviously we're still early in that domain, but I think it'll be cool to see how much people are accelerated when you like 10x the context window or 100x the context window and things like that in the future. And it's very distinct from RAG in a lot of ways. Like I think if folks have gone into the weeds of rag versus long context, it really is a fundamental trade-off that you're making. So I'll be interested to see people not have to make that trade-off in cases where their use case would support it. Do you think that that's something that's realistic near-term timeline? I mean, without giving away anything.
32:56What do you think? There's a bunch of like architectural challenges like llms in the current form are not designed to scale up to the the 10 to 100 million token context window like it's it's really tough like you could do some hacks to sort of get slightly farther and like we did show a bunch of like research of what it would look like to bring 10 million to people and even with the original gemini launch showed some of that in in like practice and production environments it becomes extremely like very very very costly um and like not easy to maintain and continue to scale up so i do think we'll need some like architectural uh innovation at the model level in order to enable things like 100 million tokens um which i'm excited about and i think the world needs so i'm hopeful we'll keep pushing the rock up the hill 100 million tokens man what's a 100 million token use case yeah i I mean, some of these code bases is actually a good example of like, if you look at like a large company and if you're using a mono repo, really interesting to see like, if you imagine like your assistant, like you probably at maybe 100 million tokens is like too much or is like slightly on the extreme of this, but like accumulated through your lifetime, you actually do have a lot of this data.
34:16I think the challenge then becomes like, how do you, and like the attention mechanism in language models, um, and transformer specifically doesn't have this intrinsically in it, but like, how do you up sample the right data and down sample the wrong data, all that stuff. So I think you'll need these sit, like human memory has this like interesting, uh, has all these interesting mechanisms to make sure like the stuff that's not useful is removed from your memory. And the stuff that is useful is cemented and then you build these this sort of abstraction layer on top of like core ideas that you've had I assume we'll get something closer to like what looks like memory because then it it decreases like you don't need a hundred million you probably need like 10 million with the system on top of it and that's much more reasonable than 100 million totally that makes sense food analysis is a thing that really interests me this the food analysis via image it seems super practical and how does this work is this just simply take a photo of your lunch and get detailed nutritional information from that photo yeah this depends probably a little bit on like the use case you could definitely do something like that um i would i would suggest folks to like try to do some validation as far as like how accurate that is and i imagine there's cases where it works really well and there's probably like foods like different food genres or categories or different examples where it does not work well.
35:45Yeah. So this is where having, making it easy for people to build evals and benchmarks is really important. I'd love to see like your personal eval of different food understanding use cases. But yeah, I do think I've thought about this for a while. If you've ever like tried to use one of those apps to like track what you're eating um it's a huge pain in the ass i'm like i i envy people who are going on that journey and that mission because it's such a pain to have to like keep track of everything and being able to just snap a picture and have the model deeply understand um and use things like bounding boxes and it can do it the size proportional understanding of size and all the like nuanced details um has just never been possible without language models that have like a deep vision capability and i think that's that's something that works like actually works right now and is a good example of like the model capability has actually in some cases like uh outpaced the ability for us to build products around the model and the ability of people to like wrap their head around the understanding of the model can actually do that like if you were to go and ask, you know, a hundred million random Americans can, does a product like that exists?
37:03Can AI models do this, et cetera? Like I would assume the vast majority would say it's not possible. Um, and the reality is it works right now today. Like you can go download an app that does that or build an app yourself even better that does that. I'm guessing it would probably where you'd hit limitations would be with things like it, not being able to recognize the difference in maybe almond milk and dairy milk. No, I think it could do that. I think it could do that. I mean, in a cup without the packaging, it wouldn't be able to do that. Yeah. In containers, I mean, the models can read the text extremely well, like superhuman ability to read that text.
37:38I think you'd be able to do that right now. So I'm curious. I have almond milk and regular milk in my fridge. I'll go test after this, but I'm almost positive it'll be able to pick up on it. That's awesome. Well, I am actually doing that journey right now. I'm using an app to track my calories and it takes a lot of mental effort every day to put it in. And I was thinking like, man, if I could just go make a micro app version of this. And then, you know, I also read that it's really good to instead of just walking 30 minutes every day to actually switch every three minutes between regular walking and fast walking.
38:13And I was like, there's no reason with today's AI tools that I couldn't make myself a micro app to do both of those things for me like right now. Do it in AI Studio, Grant. Do it in AI Studio and let me know if it doesn't work and send the feedback of whatever doesn't. But I have to imagine this is like super achievable, single prompt, and it works out of the box. Yeah, I think so too. I will spin it up and I'll let you know how it goes. yeah i think the thing we're missing right now in ai studio for the like keeping track of what you eat example is we don't have um we don't have like persistent database support right now which is what you would want you'd want to store it over time and then build a bunch of infrastructure to retrieve that context where it's useful so we're working on that i think that will make that use case it will like the demo will work really well you could do it for like a bunch of stuff in a single like browser session but as soon as you refresh that's gonna uh you're gonna lose it yeah you're going to potentially lose that stuff.
39:07So we will, we'll solve that problem. But I think the technology should like exist. The models can do it for you, which is awesome. Well, Google, you, Google also has a lot of different other tools. Like you have Firebase Studio, you have some other ones, Jules, Colab. I mean, Firebase Studio in theory could, could do the database portion of that. No? Yeah. Yeah. It should be able to, I think that's one of the cool things about Firebase's and Firebase Studios. You get the sort of batteries included with, compute and storage, et cetera. So that should just work out of the box. And they also have a bunch of Gemini integration.
39:39So you should be able to get it to do sort of image understanding with Gemini through Firebase, get a database, all that stuff. Well, you know, Google's been releasing a lot in even the Gemma family. I think it's over 100 million downloads now. How does the open source strategy fit with AI Studio? Can people access those Gemma models within the platform? And what's the thinking behind the difference? Yeah, yeah. That's a great question. So what ends up happening with Gemma is sort of it's an acknowledgement in a couple of ways. Like one, obviously open source and open models are good for the ecosystem.
40:20So it's great for Google to participate. and Google's done a ton of stuff in open source for many, many years. I think the Gemma story is also an acknowledgement of it's us meeting developers and customers where they are. And there's a ton of ecosystems where you either need to have the level of model customization that open source provides or the stability of long-term deployments. I was emailing with a customer over the weekend and they were saying how they basically need more than six months to get a model approved to actually put it into production because they're in a regulated industry. And at the pace of what ends up happening with the Gemini models, it ends up being difficult for them to like use Gemini in production because like we have so many models and then the old models get deprecated and new ones come out and all this stuff.
41:11And like this, the pace of innovation that's happening actually makes adopting AI difficult. And that's where Gemma is like a great example of like, you can take the models, you can put them on a server somewhere you can deploy them and you can own that yourself long-term and sort of take take ownership in the journey of like how you migrate between different ai uh models that are coming so i think there's i think there's something interesting there there's two other angles one of them is um i think i think people also just want to have this like customization story and there's like a few a few good examples of this like we did dolphin gemma um and dolphin gemma is like trying down a bunch of dolphin data and sort of helps, helps understand some of the stuff that's happening, um, that the like actions that dolphins are taking, which is like kind of a funny example, but also like interesting of the level of customization that you can do.
42:03Um, med Gemma is another one where there's like a huge amount of interest in the medical space. And obviously open AI is making a bunch of, um, a bunch of noise about that with GPT five and the stuff that they're doing. So like, it's clearly an example that I think they said it was like some, one of the highest traction query use cases in chat GPT was this medical use case. And I think, you know, I talk to customers all the time who are blown away with MedGemma and MedGemini, actually the sort of Gemini variant of it. So it's been super cool to see those use cases also get love by being able to like build these custom open source models.
42:43And it usually ends up being that the models the open source models are like six months behind um the proprietary models for for google at least um yeah but it's all the same innovation that ends up being in there it's like we you know make hill climb on multimodal or long context or reasoning or something like that and then it all feeds back into the open model ecosystem what are you most excited about right now in the AI space? Like, where do you, where do you think all this is headed? Not necessarily, you know, giving away Google secret sauce or anything, but just as someone who's been in this space through your open AI days and now at Google DeepMind and watching it expand and grow, what, what, what gets you excited?
43:28Yeah, it's a good question. I think probably vibe coding. And the reason I, the reason I say that is I think as someone who's like gone through the pain of learning how to build software. Um, the, the reality is it's like the, it's, everyone isn't going to learn how to build software. Um, but the cool thing, and like, actually, if I coding is just one of these examples where like AI is lifting is like the rising tide that lifts all boats. Um, and, and we see this and, and, and that's why I think some of the like broad conversations about, um, you know, the, the negative, I think there are very real potential negative impacts of AI for people.
44:09But I think it's just so incredible and exciting to see this like continued trend of the tide lifting all the ships. And I think vibe coding is one of those examples. I think there's something interesting about this medical use case, which is really great. I think there's like the tutoring use case, which is really great. There's all these examples where consistently the model is making it so that something that was reserved for a small group of people is now able to be done by a much larger group of people. And the direct outcome of that is like hopefully a benefit to humanity. And I think there's...
44:45I agree. Yeah, it's fun to see the Vibe Coding example because I love building software. And I think it's like a great force for economic prosperity and all that stuff. And I'm hopeful we'll see other examples like this where something that is super high economic value to the world can be done by more people. And at the same time, this is the like the very interesting dovetails, like at the same time that more people are able to do it, the value of the expertise actually isn't diminished and it's further increased. And I think that's the missing part of this like vibe coding developer story, which is like just because you can vibe code doesn't make it so that developers aren't important.
45:23Actually, the amount of software in the world is going to be a million X what it is right now in 10 years. and who do you think is going to be fixing and maintaining all that software? There'll be AI in there and there'll be agents in there, but there'll also be a lot of human developers who are sort of orchestrating these tools and making sure that there's actual value creation happening. So I'm just incredibly bullish on this market expansionary force that AI has and also just creating all these new markets that didn't exist before. Yeah, it's incredible to see. If someone listening has never touched AI Studio, what's the first thing that they should use it to build?
46:02Clone your favorite website. I feel like as a use case, I do all the time. So I take a screenshot of AI Studio. And when I'm ideating, I'm like, what is the next generation of our product look like? I literally just take a screenshot of AI Studio, put it back in AI Studio, and I say, clone this. And it remakes it. And then I have this sort of canvas to reimagine what the product could be. So I think it's a magical use case. I like that. That's cool. I don't know what this says about me and that you can read into this all you want, but my go-to is always remake MySpace. So I guess MySpace is my favorite website, which I didn't realize.
46:39Yeah, that was a special tell. Yeah. But what would you say is the most underrated feature of AI Studio that like knowledge workers, for example, who aren't developers, but what are they missing from not using it? Yeah, I think maybe the knowledge worker persona probably should be in the Gemini app. So we're definitely building ASGDO for more of like the AI builder audience. But I still think like deep research is a great example of like people don't understand. My dad texted me over the weekend and was like, hey, he was sending me some article and was like, hey, does Gemini have this like deep research functionality?
47:12I'm like, yes, we actually invented deep research. and uh and it's it's just a mind-blowing experience if folks haven't tried deep research before in the gemini app you can ask your like a really simple query and the model will go visit you know between tens and hundreds or even thousands of different web pages in order to help answer the question and then like show you this proof of work and citations and all this stuff so it's a it's a mind-blowing experience and is a great example of like what ai products should feel like um so that's definitely the like my knowledge worker best uh best use case yeah that's great and yeah it's gotten a lot better too since the first version came out that yes google invented we remember because we covered it it's so funny it's like yeah people only use or they don't only use open ai but they they think of it with open ai now because open ai sort of like took that and ran with it yeah 100 the ai space has a lot of that that was never one of that that just really make business coverage more interesting yeah i think that's why telling the story is also really interesting because it is um i think i think there's something fascinating about that it's like how much of the uh even in ai how much of the how much of the human experience is just storytelling um is fascinating yeah i look forward to watching this era's pirates of silicon valley uh if you remember the the movie about bill gates and steve jobs and uh i think there will be a lot of interesting stories to tell 20 years from now about this stretch of time we're both in and entering.
48:46Well, Logan, thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate it. It's an honor to have you on the Neuron and to get to talk to you about the great products you guys are putting out. Yeah, this was a ton of fun. Thank you for having me. And it was fun to ideate in a bunch of stuff. And hopefully as the sort of vibe coding experience in AI Studio video materializes, we'll be able to help you both do even more and send me suggestions and feedback. I would love to keep making the product better for y 'all. Absolutely. And keep up the fire tweets. Every time you have one, I'm like, let's see it.
49:18Let's go. Let's see it. I appreciate it. That was a great interview. A lot of fun chatting with Logan today, learning about what Google's doing now and maybe what all's around the corner and just kind of seeing more of the big picture of the Google AI plan, even, I would say, not just limited to Studio. And I think we're going to see a lot more good things as time goes, don't you, Grant? Yeah, 100%. I'm really bullish on Google right now. Yeah, they've got a lot going on, and they seem to, after a rough rollout in the AI space, they've really kind of come together and started putting out some big winners.
49:54Yeah, I mean, I say this a lot in the newsletter, but Google was always the one to be in AI. Yes. OpenAI was founded basically to make sure that Google was not an AI monopoly. And so far, they've done a good job of succeeding at that. There's now five major AI labs that are competing directly at Google. That's crazy. But I still think it's Google's to win. I know it's kind of a controversial opinion. Yeah. But I truly do believe that it's Google's race to lose. Let's put it that way. They started further behind, but they were already ahead. But, you know, back in 2016. So I think at this point, it's just like, let's see if they can overcome the bureaucracy and get really smart people like Logan and Demis and let them push through and create something really epic.
50:45Well, you know, and to me, the smartest pivot I've seen in their system was like, they really started out very consumer driven. It was Gemini. Let's get these models out. And I mean, I guess you've got to have the models to continue building out the other things. But while OpenAI has a really strong hold on the consumer market, I mean, Google is growing in other areas. Like in the end, I don't even know that there has to be a winner and a loser. I feel like this is going to be a big space. It's going to continue to be a big space. And the fact is, we're probably going to find, and I hope we do find, that there's room for several companies.
51:26Because, you know, nobody wants the Monopoly situation. But I do believe that really, and not just them, anyone. You know, you don't want any one company controlling all of the AI space. That's true. I think, you know, I think there's still an awful, awful lot of room to grow for, you know, years and years to come. And they're all hanging in there right now. So yeah, we'll see where it goes. I would say the framing with which I said it's Google's race to win or lose is based on the framing of AGI being this like takeoff moment where, you know, all of a sudden some lab has the AGI internally and then they can just continuously self -improve forever.
52:10I think the jury's still out on whether or not that's going to happen anytime soon. But interestingly, I just recently saw Francois Cholet and Dworkesh Patel talking about their AGI timelines when they released the launch of the ARC AGI 3 prize, which for anyone who doesn't know, ARC AGI 3 is basically like the next iteration of the ARC prize to try and prove that, you know, AGI is possible. and that these models aren't just like memorizing things and they're actually generalizing and learning across, you know, large spans. Multiple disciplines and yeah. Exactly. And this one's all games focused, which goes back to our conversation with Logan about gaming and his conversation with Demis on the Google podcast I reference.
52:57We'll include a link to that. Yeah. And they basically are saying, you know, Francois, he's like a major AI skeptic just because he thinks, you know, they're not actually generalizing or at least they haven't up until this point, he's now changed his time frame to be within five years. So that's a big deal. Yeah, it's really interesting because we talk about it an awful lot less and people who were skeptics who have kind of suddenly leaned in and you've got people who are really close who you wouldn't have been shocked if they said tomorrow, who've maybe leaned back just a little bit. So I'm guessing what we're going to look at here is, you know, My money's been on like 2027-ish for a minute.
53:41But we'll see. You know, like you said, it may not even happen. And it may be that some of these people are bright and it's actually kind of irrelevant because it's already good enough it's doing most all of the things. You know, I mean, are we chasing perfection or are we, I mean, obviously we are over the long term. But, you know, we'll just have to see where it lands and how that goes forward. Yeah. But on that note, how about a round robin question for this week? If you had to predict, what will AI development look like for the average knowledge worker in 2026? We'll all be prompt engineers.
54:18We'll all be managing teams of agents, managing teams of agents. Do you think the tools will be invisible and we'll just be talking to our computers via some kind of voice interface? What do you see? hmm this is interesting so i think this is all dependent on what the dominant ux and by ux i mean user experience is and what it becomes over the next couple months so are you thinking 2026 just like broadly like over the course of the year so like the course of the year not like january one because we're you know five months out from january one so i won't i'll uh let's say you know this time next year a year from now okay so august 2026 yeah i think there's a lot of room to run in terms of creating a more optimal or a better ai user experience between now and 2026 august 2026 and so if i had to guess what that form factor is i think it'd be a lot more voice and talking and a lot less hard formatting structured prompts is my guess.
55:27A hundred percent. I think that that part of the process is going to get abstracted away as much as possible. And by that, I mean, it goes to the back end. The, you know, the engineers are doing it so that you, the user, as a regular knowledge worker, don't have to think about, ooh, I got to make sure that I give it my task and my goal and I have to structure it in a certain way. And it's better if I put, you know, my goal first versus my context first versus when do I put things in the order? I think that gets abstracted away as much as possible, unless the model architecture changes a lot. And so then it'll just be you, Corey, basically saying, what's up?
56:03This is what I'm trying to do. What do you need from me to do it? Or the AI even prompts you. It's like, what are you trying to do today, Corey? And here's what I need from you in order to do it. And it makes it a lot simpler. I like that. I'm very, very similar. I would say that really structured prompting is going to be a thing left for building agents. And mostly I say that because, you know, with agents, you want really repeatable results. You're looking for a task that's done over and over in a similar way. And I think that for that purpose, that style of prompting is fine. I will say that I've noticed even with GPT-5 and the little bit of time we've had access to it, I can just throw slop garbage in a chat window now.
56:51It does not have to be structured, grammatically correct. You know, even playing with image gen models lately, like I've been playing with Flux locally, and one of the things I noticed is like there are these sample prompts in there to get different styles of images when you start. and every one of them is just a non-stop line of words there are no commas there are no periods there are no nothing it's just like black and white image nor style three-quarter view from the ground that has a lot to do with how the the images are labeled like if you look at you know the data sets for how they train images you're basically asking a human or in certain cases an AI to go in and describe all of the aspects of the image so that it's properly labeled so that everything that is black and white, you know, is labeled black and white.
57:46And so the model knows, OK, if you use the word black and white, I know what that looks like and vice versa. So for image prompting, it makes perfect sense. I think more that there are no commas or natural breaks included is what threw me off, that it is literally just a long string of words. Word soup. with his word soup like you could grab any chunk and be reading nonsense if he didn't know what you were doing so i say that because it impressed me because what that means is it's still able to grab the context from that and know oh he means black and white he means no are this he means you know he wants a clown and a tutu dancing around on top of a beach ball uh that's not what I was generating images of, to be clear.
58:28But now, with that said, on the end user side, like a typical knowledge worker sitting at a desk, person who's spending their day in Slack or Google Chat or Microsoft Teams or whatever your particular flavor of communication software is, I think it will be much like what you've said. I think we'll get in in the morning and we'll open up our AI of choice. whichever one that happens to be. And it really doesn't matter that much. It matters less every time a new model comes out. Not at this stage, yeah. Yeah, we've really reached a point where the basics are good to go. So, you know, just pick your flavor and be happy with it.
59:12But I picture coming in in the morning and it being like, hey, here are the few things I'm supposed to give you every morning. I got this ready for you. I got this. You've got these meetings. You know, kind of a true sit down and have a five minute stand up with your with your personal assistant kind of thing to the morning, but with AI. And and I think then it'll be things like, oh, they talk to me. I'm going to take over this new task now that Bob has been handling. OK, so I'll holler over here and say, hey, Gemini, chat GPT, whatever. And it'll be like, hey, what's up, Corey? and from there, you know, you'll say, like, I've got this new thing I have to do every morning right now.
59:52I need to be keeping a really close eye on the price of NVIDIA stock, for example. Can you make sure that I have it before market open every day? And that'll be that. And then it just sends it to you, like, the next morning? And then it's just done, and I don't have to go in. I don't have to build an agent. I don't have to go and, you know, set some timer and a schedule. It just knows what every morning means. I mean, it can come back and be like, you mean weekdays or seven days a week? But I think it'll be much more done with either our voices or one or two simple questions. This is really interesting.
1:00:28I think the thing that unlocks this is having an AI operating system. So I'm going to use Apple as an example because Apple, although they are very behind in AI, they can actually make a lot of progress and headway here. And the rumors that have leaked from the company basically suggest as much. So they're working on a new Siri that's supposed to come out in early 2026. Spring 2026 might be summer, you know, could be as late as August or fall of next year. Or December. Or, I mean, don't bet on timelines with them. No, no. But it's allegedly spring of 2026. And they're working on the Siri so that it works with App Intense.
1:01:11So you could be using your phone or your MacBook and you could ask Siri, this new Siri, hey, Siri, can you get me, you know, can you open Uber and order me a pizza through the Uber Eats app? And it will actually do it for you. Now, that's something that Apple can uniquely do because they have the operating system. They like they can, you know, teach their AI to open your app with App Intense, their feature to do this, you know, put in all the data. Yeah. And be able to do this. can an open ai do this at this point they can do it if it's like a staged environment that they control out in the cloud like the chat dpt agent but that's not as convenient for everybody the most convenient form factor will be an ai assisted operating system that where it can actually just use everything locally on your computer for you and i think over under how many companies would you say are working on one of those right now out of the out of just out of the ai labs let's say just out of, and I'm going to include Microsoft here as well.
1:02:11We've got Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, X, Y, Prophec. You know, I think if they're not working on this, they are behind. I think so too. But I think a lot of them, like let's look at Cloud and OpenAI, for example. They don't have the money or attention span to work on this right now because think about who they would be competing with if they were making their own operating system. And I'd say it's not on Meta's radar either. Meta, I think, is closer. I think Meta is. And I think they're working on it for their personal super intelligence for the glasses. So if you think about the world that we just described, where you and I are working, yep, you got them on right there, where you and I are working and we're talking to our AI and the AI is doing things for us, Meta actually has the closest version of that with the super intelligence plan.
1:02:56I personally predicted that if they're able to do this, that means that there's less time, you and me stuck staring at a screen on the computer and more time us doing work as we're living our lives which not everyone agrees with with my read on that and that like you know the forces that be in corporate america will stop that from happening but i think if the everybody is is doing it then the expectation changes and it's not like you have to be glued to your office chair in order to work but that it's just like you're you the expectation is the work is done and i don't think that's wrong. I think it might be a longer leash timeline.
1:03:34And the only reason I say that is because it's the truth. You know, it's kind of happened now. Like, first off, we're both working from home making this podcast right now. Like, that was kind of crazy talk 25 years ago. Correct. Five years ago. Actually, three years ago after COVID when everyone wanted everyone to go back to the office. And I theoretically have the equipment and would be perfectly capable of right now traveling to Southern California and, you know, sitting on a beach and doing my work from a lawn chair or a beach chair. What are they? I don't even know the words. A chair on a beach, chair on a beach.
1:04:14And, you know, I could do that right now. I could go sit on my back porch right now and do my job. I think the key will be, would it cut us loose from the laptop? I think getting away from the big screen is going to be a big step. And it might be some solution like combining AI with an Apple Vision Pro kind of thing where, you know, you could do it from your couch. You could do it from anywhere where you just take a minute and throw your monitors up on the wall when you need to, you know, once every hour or so, check in on Slack and make sure you're caught up with everybody or something, for example.
1:04:47And by the way, Apple is working on this as well. They've waited till, we covered this at one of my old newsletters. They waited, they're waiting until 2026, 2027 for battery life reasons as has been leaked. I think Apple's still a sleeper here. I think they're I think they may do it by acquiring someone, which I don't think is necessarily a bad move. So far all they've done is put out papers that made us all really sad. I'm sorry. But I say that. They've done a great job with the ChatGPT integrations into Apple OS that have been really handy as well. All right. Well, I guess that about wraps us up for today.
1:05:27Special thanks to Logan Kilpatrick and Google DeepMind for joining us today. There are a lot of exciting things coming out of Google right now and all of the industry. And it was really fun to sit down and talk to them and learn some things we could and should be doing with them right now. And you should, too. If you enjoyed today's episode, please take a moment to like, subscribe, and drop us a note below. Also, please don't forget to check out the Neuron's daily AI newsletter, where we break down the latest AI news and developments for a half million people every morning. And that's all we've got for this episode.
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From the publisher
Today we go deeper on Google's AI stack with Logan Kilpatrick: what AI Studio is great at, how it fits with Firebase/Colab/Gemini CLI/Jules, and where "thinking" models make sense. We cover real-world workflows—from game prototyping and screen-share assistance to legal/privacy basics and on-device micro-apps. Logan shares his insights on vibe coding, the future of AI development, and Google's open-source strategy with Gemma models.
Resources mentioned:
Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/
Gemini CLI: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
Kaggle Game Arena: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions
Google Firebase: https://firebase.google.com/
Gemma models: https://ai.google.dev/gemma
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