Derek Pang

Software Engineer @GeminiApp Previously: Lead @Pixel HDR+, Engineering @Lytro, Founding member of @HighfiveHQ, Alumni of Stanford IVMS.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Love this re-imagining of America’s founding using Docs, Gmail, Calendar and more from @GoogleWorkspace. Really puts the history in version history :)

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

holy crap! apple just beat google to the punch -- 3d gaussian splatting is coming to apple maps.

these 3d scenes are made from oblique aerial imagery. but unlike blobby photogrammetry -- no more broccoli trees, no more melted powerlines -- ground level detail that actually holds up.

here's hoping google maps/earth follows suite soon -- they have a significantly larger corpus of sensor data to work with. time to splat the world!

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

A short backstory on this one:

A small Google Labs team had an idea to make an app designed to connect you with what matters, without the endless scroll. "Hope scrolling, not doom scrolling" was the hallway pitch. "Go for it."

And today, that little experiment is rolling out.

Meet Dreambeans, a daily dose of inspiration, brewed fresh for you. We're excited to see what you think!

[Huizhong Chen @huizhong_c]

Are image generators secretly generalist vision learners?

Introducing Vision Banana🔎🍌: an instruction-tuned Nano Banana that rivals or beats specialists across segmentation, depth, normals, AND image gen.

📄 Report: https://t.co/zdkB76WS8n
🌐 Gallery: https://t.co/lED7oNX4Mk

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

New in Gemini: Import memory & chats to Gemini

It's now easy to transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

Go to Settings > Import memory to Gemini

"Importing memory is surprisingly smooth"

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Nano Banana 2 is here.

Our latest image model gives you the power of Pro at the speed of Flash. You can create images with real-world accuracy, add text in many languages, and bring your wildest ideas to life faster with vibrant lighting, richer textures and sharper details. 🧵

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

To the Scientist, the Engineer, and the Developer: Gemini 3.1 Pro has arrived in @GeminiApp

It's a significant leap in complex reasoning (77.1% on ARC-AGI-2) so it's great at agentic tasks, intricate coding, and data synthesis projects.

You should see fewer errors, better logic, and surprisingly good SVGs. :)

[Alex Heath @alexeheath]

Google shipped the holodeck on a Thursday

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Big updates on Gemini in Chrome today:
+ New side panel access (Control+G)
+ Runs in the background, so you can switch tabs
+ Quickly edit images with Nano Banana
+ Auto Browse for multi-step tasks (Preview)
+ Works on Mac, Windows, Chromebook Plus

I’m using it multiple times per day to judge what to read deeper. I open a page, Control+G to open the side panel, ask a question about the page or long document, switch tabs, do the same thing in another tab, another tab, etc. and then come back to all of them.

It’s also great for comparing across tabs since you can add multiple tabs to the context!

[Google @Google]

Today, we’re introducing Personal Intelligence.

With your permission, Gemini can now securely connect information from Google apps like @Gmail, @GooglePhotos, Search and @YouTube history with a single tap to make Gemini uniquely helpful & personalized to *you* ✨

This feature is launching in beta today in the @GeminiApp.

See Personal Intelligence in action 🧵 ↓

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

Introducing Personal Intelligence. It's our answer to a top request: you can now personalize @GeminiApp by connecting your Google apps with a single tap. Launching as a beta in the U.S. for Pro/Ultra members, this marks our next step toward making Gemini more personal, proactive and powerful. Check it out!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Answering a top request from our users, we’re introducing Personal Intelligence in the @GeminiApp. You can now securely connect to Google apps for an even more helpful experience.

Personal Intelligence combines two core strengths: reasoning across complex sources and retrieving specific details, e.g from an email or photo, to provide uniquely tailored answers.

It’s built with privacy at the center. You choose exactly which apps to connect, these connected app settings are off by default.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

We had a pretty productive year! 🚀

[Derek Pang @dcpang]

@elonmusk Only the real player would know.

[Derek Pang @dcpang]

We are very excited to share how we apply DeepMind’s MuZero (AlphaGo) to make a leap forward in video codec control. Very happy to see this become the first commercial application that MuZero has mastered. Congratulation to our teams and collaborators !

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

MuZero signified a huge step forward towards the pursuit of general-purpose algorithms. Today our team is sharing its first application to enhance real-world systems, by improving video compression on @YouTube.

Blog: https://t.co/jEbiqEDZPu
Paper: https://t.co/BSUHb8l5rv 1/

[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

[Susan Wojcicki @SusanWojcicki]

Excited to announce that more than 2 billion people come to YouTube each month to experience music. And @youtubemusic has more than 70 million official tracks! Our update from @lyorcohen to bring more marketers to music: https://t.co/PMI5Q4O9Vc

[Derek Pang @dcpang]

Terms of Service: Visualizing the Length of Digital Contracts https://t.co/TPAysd4f9m

[Derek Pang @dcpang]

@PaulTubb1 It connected all the dots in the most beautiful way.

[Julian Chokkattu @JulianChokkattu]

The Google Pixel 4A is finally here, and it was well worth the wait. It's an improvement in every way over last year's Pixel 3A *and* it's cheaper. That doesn't happen often. At $350, this one's a no-brainer.
https://t.co/XEDc7i8uyy via @WIRED