This is too much for a Friday ?? My thoughts on an article soon...
BREAKING: Google is BACK and Sundar Pichai just showed why they're still the Silicon alpha. This isn't just an announcement - it's Kool-Aid Man bursting through the wall. Models, agents, speed. Crazy. I got to see some of this stuff behind the scenes at Google I/O this past year (thanks Logan Kilpatrick!).?But to see it starting to emerge into the wild is...well, wild. Ready for the tsunami of Google announcements? 1. Gemini 2.0 Flash: Speed Demon > Twice as fast as their previous models > Beats Gemini 1.5 Pro on every major benchmark > Native multilingual audio that actually sounds human > Real-time everything: text, images, audio > Direct integration with Google Search (this is HUGE) 2. Project Mariner: The Web Browser That Thinks > AI that actually browses the web like a human > Scores 83.5% on real-world web tasks (!!!) > Understands forms, code, images - the whole deal > Types, scrolls, clicks - all while you watch > Built right into Chrome (of course) 3. Project Astra: The Assistant That Remembers > 10-minute memory for actual conversations > Speaks multiple languages like a native > Integrated with Maps, Search, and Lens > Response times that'll make ChatGPT blush > Personalization that actually works 4. The Secret Weapons > Jules: An AI coding agent that lives in GitHub > Gemini for Games: Real-time gaming companion > Web-scale integration across Google's ecosystem TIMING: > Early access starting now > Full rollout in January 2025 The brilliant part? Google's building this as a complete ecosystem. Everything talks to everything else. Search feeds Gemini feeds Chrome feeds Maps. They're calling this the "agentic era" of AI - where AI doesn't just respond, it acts. Google just showed everyone they're still the apex predator around here. Remember when people said Google was losing the AI race? Yeah. About that...