Member of technical staff, working on Gemini, @GoogleAIStudio, the Gemini API, & Kaggle. My views!
Lkilpatrick@google.com
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Introducing Genie 3, the most advanced world simulator ever created, enabled by numerous research breakthroughs. 🤯
Featuring high fidelity visuals, 20-24 fps, prompting on the go, world memory, and more.
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Say hello to the @geminicli, a local CLI to help you build and maintain software with 1,000 free Gemini 2.5 Pro requests per day : )
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Today is a huge day for developers. 🤯
- ChatGPT API released (10x cheaper)
- Whisper available in the API
- Overhauled data usage policy
- Focus on stability
And more!
Here’s a quick thread on everything we shipped today @OpenAI 🧵
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If you are not planning for the price of intelligence to go to zero, the next 3-5 years are going to incredibly disruptive to your business / life.
This is the main idea for the rest of the decade, buckle up.
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Big updates to the @GeminiApp today:
- Deep Research is now available to all users for free
- Deep Research is now powered by 2.0 Flash Thinking (our reasoning model)
- New Gemini personalization using your search history
- Gems are available to all users
And more in 🧵
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The next 6 months of AI are likely to be the most wild we will have seen so far
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is back in the free tier of the API, have a great weekend : )
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Just when you thought it was over... we’re introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, a new experimental model that unlocks stronger reasoning capabilities and shows its thoughts.
The model plans (with thoughts visible), can solve complex problems with Flash speeds, and more 🧵
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Tomorrow is a special day for the AI Studio team.
Since May, we have been heads down building a brand new AI vibe coding experience to accelerate the path from prompt to production with Gemini.
Can’t wait to show you all :)
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Introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), our SOTA image generation and editing model 🍌
As you might have already seen, this model excels at character consistency, creative edits, and has Gemini's world knowledge!
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Introducing grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, bringing data about 250 million places and Gemini together to create all new experiences 🗺️!
So powerful to connect things like maps + search together in a single experience : )
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Introducing the new AI first vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio! Built to take you from prompt to production with Gemini, and optimized for AI app creation. Start building AI apps for free : )
More updates and features to come!
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Excited to share I’ve joined @Google to lead product for AI Studio and support the Gemini API.
Lots of hard work ahead, but we are going to make Google the best home for developers building with AI.
I’m not going to settle for anything less.
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We just shipped Google AI Studio as a progressive web app (PWA) which lets you install it locally on desktop, iOS, and Android. 🚢
Very grateful I no longer need to type in the AI Studio URL 20 times a day now : )
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You are probably not being ambitious enough, think bigger, aim higher, push the bounds of what is possible.
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Yesterday was my last day @OpenAI.
I spent the last year and a half putting my heart and soul into supporting developers every single day.
I’m going to miss all the amazing folks I got to work with, y’all are doing such important work, keep shipping ♥️
Stay tuned…
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Introducing our latest update to Gemini 2.5 Pro (06-05), which we expect to become our long term stable release. At a glance:
- SOTA on HLE, Aider, and GPQA
- Now supports thinking budgets
- Same cost, on pareto frontier
- Closes gap on 03-25 regressions
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Everyone saying AI is going to replace people clearly don’t work with great people enough
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AI startups can get up to $350K in free cloud credits (which work with the Gemini API), go build something :)
cloud.google.com/startup
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Introducing Gemini 2.5 Pro, the world's most powerful model, with unified reasoning capabilities + all the things you love about Gemini (long context, tools, etc)
Available as experimental and for free right now in Google AI Studio + API, with pricing coming very soon!
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Gemini 2.5 Pro just got an upgrade & is now even better at coding, with significant gains in front-end web dev, editing, and transformation.
We also fixed a bunch of function calling issues that folks have been reporting, it should now be much more reliable. More details in 🧵
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Gemini 2.5 Flash is here, our first unified reasoning model with thinking budgets. 🔥
It’s on the perato frontier and punches above its price and size!!
developers.googleblog.com/en…
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Google is processing 980 trillion+ monthly tokens across our products and APIs (up from 480T in May) 🤯
No slowdown in sight, intelligence is everywhere.
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We are seeing a huge amount of demand for Gemini 2.5 Pro right now and are laser focused on getting higher rate limits into the hands of developers ASAP.
This is the #1 priority right now, stay tuned : )
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Straight shot to ASI is looking more and more probable by the month… this is what Ilya saw
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ChatGPT Plugins are here 🤯
Today we are launching:
- Browsing in ChatGPT
- Code execution in ChatGPT
- 3rd party plugins
And a whole new developer ecosystem! Here's what you need to know 🧵
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We are going to build the world’s most powerful coding models, lots of good progress already with 2.0.
2025 is going to be fun :)
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Gemini 2.5 Pro, available to all users in @cursor_ai!
It’s time to build 🚢
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Gemini is now accessible via the OpenAI libraries! Update 3 lines of code and get started with the latest Gemini models : )
developers.googleblog.com/en…
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Introducing the new Realtime Multimodal API, powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash!
You can stream audio, video, and text in, while dynamic tool calls happen in the background (Search, code execution, & function calling). Truly a wild experience, try it right now in AI Studio 🤯
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Introducing Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast, our latest state of the art video models with:
- richer native audio
- better cinematic styles
- reference to video
- transitions between frames
- video extensions
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Introducing YouTube video 🎥 link support in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. You can now directly pass in a YouTube video and the model can usage its native video understanding capabilities to use that, with just a link! 🚢
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Today we are making URL Context, my favorite Gemini API tool, ready for scaled production use 🔗
The model can now visit webpages, PDF's, images, and more when you provide the direct URL, and you simply pay for the tokens it processes, no additional tool cost!
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vibe coding should be taught in every school and university around the world, first day on campus, welcome to the future
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Today we are rolling out an updated Gemini 2.0 Image Generation model with 🖼️:
- Better visual quality
- More accurate text rendering
- Lower block rates
- Higher rate limits
- $0.039 per image generated
So excited to get this into the hands of devs : )
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Introducing the File Search Tool in the Gemini API, our hosted RAG solution with free storage and free query time embeddings 💾
We are super excited about this new approach and think it will dramatically simplify the path to context aware AI systems, more details in 🧵
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Gemini-exp-1206, our latest Gemini iteration, (with the full 2M token context and much more) is available right now for free in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
I hope you have enjoyed year 1 of the Gemini era as much as I have. We are just getting started : )
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We are rolling out a new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking update:
- Exp-01-21 variant in AI Studio and API for free
- 1 million token context window
- Native code execution support
- Longer output token generation
- Less frequent model contradictions
Try it aistudio.google.com
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. @NanoBanana make me a cool banana themed billboard that says "hello world"
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Big welcome to @_mohansolo and others from the Windsurf team joining Deepmind : )
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Today I am happy to share that Google AI Studio and the Gemini Developer API (along with our teams) are moving over to @GoogleDeepMind!
This move will allow us to double down on our already deep collaboration and accelerate the research to developer pipeline. Time to build!
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Today we are rolling out our first Gemini Embedding model, which ranks #1 on the MTEB leaderboard, as a generally available stable model. It is priced at $0.15 per million tokens and ready for at scale production use!
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We are giving away $100,000 to developers who come up with the best use of Gemini’s long context window between now and December 1st:
kaggle.com/competitions/gemi…
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Good news: Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro will be generally available (and stable) in early June.
Thanks for all the feedback, we are working hard to make a great model for you all based on the feedback so far : )
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Today is the day I’ve been looking forward to for almost a year now…
Say hello to Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 2.0 Pro, our strongest lineup of models ever, available to all developers. 🧵
developers.googleblog.com/en…
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Introducing the Gemini 2.5 model family:
- Gemini 2.5 Pro (Stable, no changes from 06-05)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash (Stable, updated pricing from 05-20)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Preview, small reasoning model)
More info in 🧵
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Google AI Studio is barely scratching the surface today of what it will be by the end of the year. Exciting times!
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Introducing Ironwood, the first TPU built for the age of inference, and the timing could not be better : )
- Ironwood perf/watt is 2x relative to Trillium, 6th gen TPU
- Ironwood offers 192 GB per chip, 6x that of Trillium
- 4.5x faster data access
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Today is the biggest day ever for developers building with @OpenAI
We are releasing new models, API’s, open source models, and more. Full details in 🧵
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PSA: our experimental Gemini models are free (in Google AI Studio and API), 10 RPM, 4M TPM, 1500 RPD.
Enjoy the most powerful models we have to offer (2.0 flash, thinking, 1206, etc), with just 3 clicks on:
aistudio.google.com
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for scaled paid usage and is going to preview today!
If you want to keep using Gemini 2.5 Pro on the free tier, keep using the experimental version (no change needed), both are the same model under the hood. See details in 🧵
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Today, we are rolling out three experimental models:
- A new smaller variant, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
- A stronger Gemini 1.5 Pro model (better on coding & complex prompts)
- A significantly improved Gemini 1.5 Flash model
Try them on aistudio.google.com, details in 🧵
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Hot take 🔥: ChatGPT should not apologize so much when it answers wrong, just a waste of tokens after a certain point. ❌
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Congrats to the whole OpenAI team on GPT-5, lots of work to make this level of progress given where we were just 2 years ago, and with such high expectations.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro just got the final 8th badge in Pokemon Blue, incredible pace of progress by the world's most powerful model!!!
Next up: victory road and final 4 : )
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We just shipped implicit caching in the Gemini API, automatically enabling a 75% cost savings with the Gemini 2.5 models when your request hits a cache 🚢
We also lowered the min token required to hit caches to 1K on 2.5 Flash and 2K on 2.5 Pro!
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Gemini 2.5 Pro with "Deep Think", our models just keep getting more SOTA, more to share soon : )
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Deep Research in the Gemini App is now powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, and our early tests show users prefer this 2:1 vs “other products” ;)
gemini.google.com
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Text messaging with AI is the next form factor to hit 1 billion users, I have 100% conviction on this.
The fact that every AI company isn’t doing this with urgency is absurd.
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I am online 7 days a week, ~8+ hours a day. If you need something as you build with Gemini, please ping me!
My email is lkilpatrick@google.com
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Google's progress in AI since last year:
- The worlds strongest models, on pareto frontier
- Gemini app: has over 400M monthly active users
- We now process 480T tokens a month, up 50x YoY
- Over 7M developers have built with the Gemini API (4x)
Much more to come still!
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Introducing two new Gemini 2.5 models (Flash and Flash-Lite) which are more intelligent, cost effective, and token efficient. You can keep up with our latest models through `gemini-flash-latest` and `gemini-flash-lite-latest`!!
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A note to @OpenAI developers 🫶:
I wanted to express my appreciation for all the warm, thoughtful, and supportive messages I got and I’ve seen posted across the community.
Despite a moment of uncertainty, our commitment to developers remained steadfast.
In the meantime, please know that we are continuing to prioritize stability and security of our systems. Our engineering team remains on-call and actively monitoring our services.
In all events, our commitment remains to our customers and our mission. Thank you for your continued trust.
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Nano Banana Hackathon 🍌
2 Days
API Free Tier
Prizes & Credits
Other cool Gemini stuff : )
See you next week, it's time to build!!!
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So, what have you done with Gemini 2.5 Pro today? Please show impressive things only 🧵
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It’s interesting how few people understand that having a super strong base model will lead to significant gains for reasoning as well.
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it’s very easy to gloss over just how hard it is to land models at the frontier that you can also reasonably afford to pay for at scale
2.5 Pro is really something special
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Active users in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API have grown over 200% since the beginning of this year, driven by 2.5 Pro 🤯
This is just the beginning…
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Huge updates to the @GeminiApp today:
- Audio overviews (the beloved NotebookLM feature) are now available in the Gemini App
- A new Canvas mode with code editor, code previews, and doc creation flow
- More free Deep Research queries
And more in 🧵
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Lots of Gemini developer updates today:
- Bumped 2.5 Pro limit to 20 RPM (billing enabled)
- Added "Get code" to Live mode in AI Studio
- Made "Open in Colab" include your prompts / settings
- Added history toggle + full screen for "Get code"
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Good news: rate limits have doubled for Deep Think in the @GeminiApp
Happy prompting : )
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