Aileen Dalisay

views are my own

[Nick Fox @thefox]

We’re in a true expansionary moment with AI. As people realize that Google can handle their real questions – no matter how specific or complex – they ask even more of them.

Some insights we shared on today's Alphabet Earnings call:
1️⃣ AI is broadening what people ask. We’re seeing AI Overviews continue to drive overall Search growth, AI Mode users and usage growing, and Search queries at an all-time high!
2️⃣ Search is becoming more intelligent, personalized, and agentic. Personalization is making Search more helpful than ever, and we’ve been shipping more agentic and multimodal capabilities to help people really get stuff done.
3️⃣ Google Maps got its most significant upgrade of the past decade (...maybe of all time?!) with Gemini. If you haven’t tried Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation, you’re missing out!
4️⃣ Our Gemini models are also fundamentally transforming advertising: helping us improve ads quality and relevance; enhance campaign tools like AI Max; and reinvent ads formats for our new AI experiences.
5️⃣ It’s also been amazing to see the ecosystem come together with the open-source Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). We recently welcomed new members to the UCP Tech Council (s/o to Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Stripe who joined founding members Shopify, Etsy, Target, Wayfair, Google), and have been really encouraged to see several partners start rolling out UCP in action!

So much progress, still just beginning… a huge thank you to our teams building the future. 🚀

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

London has incredible talent & entrepreneurial spirit. Thrilled to deepen @GoogleDeepMind’s roots here with our spectacular new building Platform 37 - a nod to AlphaGo’s legendary Move 37. It’s a tribute to Science & AI, and an inspirational space for our next big breakthroughs!

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

It’s been an amazing last couple of weeks, hope you enjoyed our end of year extravaganza as much as we did!

Just some of the things we shipped: state-of-the-art image, video, and interactive world models (Imagen 3, Veo 2 & Genie 2); Gemini 2.0 Flash (a highly performant and efficient foundation model); Gemini-Exp-1206 model (top of the Chatbot Arena leaderboard); 2.0 Flash Thinking (our first ‘thinking’ model, expect a lot more news on this soon - as many of you remember, we pioneered this type of model with AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaProof…); upgrades to @GeminiApp with Deep Research and more, fantastic new NotebookLM features, a new image remixing tool (Whisk); and a series of agentic research prototypes that can help people get things done (Project Astra, Mariner, Jules) all built on Gemini 2.0.

And then on top of all of that, we dropped the world’s most accurate weather prediction model (GenCast), the world’s most advanced quantum chip that performed a computation that would have taken 10 septillion years (Willow - could come in handy for training AI one day!), and it was the honour of a lifetime to receive the Nobel Prize for AlphaFold, which has revolutionised structural biology and is being used by 2 million researchers around the world to understand disease and accelerate drug discovery.

I could not be more proud of all the exceptionally talented teams at @GoogleDeepMind & @Google who have worked so incredibly hard on all these amazing projects. It’s the greatest joy one can have professionally to get to explore the outer reaches of science and human knowledge with such wonderful colleagues.

We’ve been inventing the future of AI for well over a decade now, and we’ll continue to be a relentless engine of innovation. In many ways we’re only just getting started… if you want to be at the frontier of the most exciting scientific and technological journey ever, this is the place to be, come join us!

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We explored London with a little help from Project Astra. 🇬🇧

With Gemini 2.0, our early research prototype can have more natural conversations, comes with improved memory and can use @Google tools - making it more useful for everyday life. 🤝

[Aileen Dalisay @aileenyd]

@GrahmBrtshSup Graham, are you official BA? Why do this to people who need help?

[Aileen Dalisay @aileenyd]

15 years! Do you remember when you joined X? #MyXAnniversary

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1998, Google's founders got their first investment, a $100,000 check. It took some time to deposit because they had not set up a bank account. To celebrate, they had breakfast at Burger King.

[Google @Google]

Today we’re removing the waitlist process and making Bard available in over 180 countries and territories, with more coming soon. 🎉#GoogleIO

[Google @Google]

Whether you own a 15-year-old car and have your phone clipped to the air vent, or you’re all-in with an electric car that has the latest infotainment system (or anything in between!), Google is ready to help with your drive → https://t.co/fUb7D2adri

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

...and we're back:) Join us May 18-20 for #GoogleIO live, online, and free for everyone. https://t.co/763eVjWpYE

[Aileen Dalisay @aileenyd]

How crazy is that. 12 years with Twitter 👏 #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Thrilled to announce our first major breakthrough in applying AI to a grand challenge in science. #AlphaFold has been validated as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ & we hope it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery: https://t.co/P53t2TxVRa

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

'Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
― Dylan Thomas #BOTD in 1914

[Annachiara Biondi @annachiara_b]

"If you’re a high performer and recovery isn’t an intentional and strategic part of your time and workflow, you’re only damaging your output in the long run." https://t.co/qxSiSXsHIN via @BW

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

To help public health officials slow the spread of #COVID19, Google & @Apple are working on a contact tracing approach designed with strong controls and protections for user privacy. @tim_cook and I are committed to working together on these efforts.
https://t.co/T0j88YBcFu

[Marvic Leonen — maroon check @marvicleonen]

Crisis is, always, a test of leadership.

#ServeThePeople

[Boston Consulting Group @BCG]

In disorienting times, the most effective leaders find ways to re-ground themselves in the fundamentals of crisis leadership. Four core leadership behaviors are required in a crisis: https://t.co/WKtEBFlJVV

[Ina Fried @inafried]

Google is donating $800 million in cash and ad credits in the latest — and largest — of the contributions from Big Tech to the fight against Covid-19

https://t.co/mw3RcOm5hD

[Jill Hodges @JhodgesLondon]

Our remote #hackathon yesterday was so fun - over 100 people joined! And check out the awesome solutions our kids came up with! #tech4good #NHSheroes