Jeremy Selier

Engineer on @Google Photos — Gemini + Photos = ✨

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

Since the rise of LLMs, I’ve been convinced that we could create assistants that deeply understand you and actually help you.

For me, the first step toward that vision was unlocking deep-level understanding of your library with Ask Photos in Google Photos. But enabling Gemini to apply that same deep context across all your products was always the natural next step.

Working on Personal Intelligence has been a journey alongside some of the smartest people I know—from @timsohn to the incredible teams across DeepMind, Photos, Gmail, Search, etc. And it's been a privilege to see firsthand the leadership and product craft of @joshwoodward.

I’m so glad we can finally share the very first step of our vision of what a personal assistant can be! It’s just the beginning and things will only get better from here!

[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!

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

So happy to finally have this piece of history!

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

@Steve_Yegge Maybe tell your buddy to do some actual work and to stop spreading absolute nonsense. This post is completely false and just pure clickbait.

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

This

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Tip: Figure out your personal ceiling for running multiple agents in parallel.

We need to accept that more agents running doesn't mean more of _you_ available. The narrative is still mostly about throughput and parallelism, but almost nobody's talking about what it actually costs the human in the loop.

You're holding multiple problem contexts in your head at once, making judgment calls continuously, and absorbing the anxiety of not knowing what any one agent might be quietly getting wrong.

That's a new kind of cognitive labor we don't have good language for yet.

I've started treating long agentic sessions the way I'd treat deep focus work: time-boxed and tighter scopes per agent dramatically change how much mental overhead each thread carries.

Finding your personal ceiling with these tools is itself a skill and most of us are going to learn it the hard way before we learn it intentionally.

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

Do we have an emoji for slop?

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

Gemini just saved me.

Boarding tonight to visit our team in Sydney for the week and as I was figuring out what to bring, Gemini reminded me of the needed Visa application! 15 minutes of panicking later (and thanks to an awesome Australian Visa process), I have my Visa for tonight.

Pfew.

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@docmilanfar @demishassabis @JohnJumperSci @NoamShazeer @motiyung Much deserved! Congratulations Peyman!

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@RakeshSFNYC @GeminiApp @googlephotos Yes it does if you’ve enabled Ask Photos!

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

when I started building Ask Photos a bit more than 2 years ago, the idea was that my Photos library was the the closest to an external visual memory of my life

it both feels surreal and normal to now be able to use @GeminiApp and Personal Intelligence powered by @googlephotos

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@dflieb @GeminiApp @googlephotos Exactly!! Such a great read, you've always been ahead :)

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

It always brings me joy to see my friend Romain show his infectious builder attitude to the world. Congrats on the launch!

[Romain Huet @romainhuet]

Introducing the Codex app, one place to build with agents.

We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@SGTWipper1Each Zzz a wiz

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

Ok now my timeline is ONLY about @openclaw, what a (deserved) take off! I just hope you are managing ok @steipete with all the noise and ungrateful comments it brings

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@shaneguML Exactly! And this "last mile" mindset is hard to find, but when you do, it comes with a full ownership of the goal and a disregard of artificial boundaries.

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

Fascinating to see my timeline full of @openclaw excitement but not sure why people have the urge to buy a Mac Mini…

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@RakeshSFNYC @shimritby @dflieb @elatable Requested access, can’t promise will get to all there is in there but will definitely read and share with the team, thanks!

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@RakeshSFNYC @shimritby @dflieb Yeah, I agree, let me follow up with the team! Thanks a lot for the feedback, keep it coming :)

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

@shimritby @RakeshSFNYC @dflieb To be clear, you turned off cellular data access for the Photos app in iOS Settings, correct? Feedback taken on the error message, we can do better and hint to the iOS setting state. As Shimrit said, if you don’t mind sending feedback, that would’ve greatly appreciated!

[Jeremy Selier @jerem]

And now we bring Personal Intelligence to Search in AIMode. It's been particularly useful for trip research where it can tailor some finding based on photos from my previous trips!

[Robby Stein @rmstein]

(1/2) Personal Intelligence just landed in AI Mode – unlocking a Google Search experience that really *gets* you. Starting with subscribers, if you opt in to connecting Search to apps like Gmail and Google Photos, you can get responses that are uniquely helpful and tailored to you.

I’ve been testing this out a ton and I’m genuinely impressed at how intuitive it’s been. AI Mode is not just searching, it’s helping connect the dots across my interests and preferences. For eg: it found family activities that slot perfectly into my travel plans – and even uncovered items that match my specific style... (like nailing it with recommending new shoes! 👟)