Pavan Kumar

Building AI products @Google, @LabsDotGoogle.
Entrepreneur. Technologist.

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

🚨 NEW EXPERIMENT 🚨

Dreambeans is a new, experimental mobile app that uses Personal Intelligence to connect to your Google apps. Every day, it delivers collections of personalized stories, surfacing things you might otherwise miss, alongside topics that are relevant to you, to help you dive deeper into the things you care about most.

Available starting today for eligible US-based Google AI Ultra users (+18), with an open waitlist found on our website below!

Learn more at https://t.co/jCdAzMHvOD

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Project Genie 🤝 @GoogleMaps Street View

You can now take real U.S. places and transform them into new, interactive worlds. 🌍

[Miriam Daniel @miriamkdaniel]

Imagine driving down one of the most picturesque highways on the Pacific Coast (Highway 1) in a race car… now I can use Project Genie, connected with Street View, to bring that to life in vivid detail!

At #GoogleIO, we announced that we’re bringing Google Street View into Project Genie, so you can create and explore imaginative, interactive worlds anchored in real places.

Available to eligible Google AI Ultra Subscribers globally.

Great collab from @jmbherbert, @jparkerholder, @poolio, @drivascos + many others from @GoogleDeepMind and @GoogleLabs.

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

From playing the games to designing the games in minutes. Just choose your characters, set the scene, and let Project Genie do the rest. The transformation is wild 🦒

See Genie in action at this year's Google I/O sandbox:

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Google just turned Street View into a video game.

The mother lode of ground level data -- 280 billion real world panoramas, now playable in real time.

Here's everything you need to know in 7 mins:

00:00 Genie 3 Grounded In Reality
00:44 Real-time Demos!
03:48 The Bigger Picture
05:36 Current Limitations
06:54 World Model Resources

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

I got to "play" a world model in real life.

The @GoogleDeepMind folks set up a crazy demo for Genie.

You select glowing orbs to represent your scene and character. It loads the world in the model, and you navigate with joysticks like a video game 🕹️

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Have you explored Project Genie yet? 🌎 We just launched a huge set of updates! You can now simulate worlds grounded in @GoogleMaps Street View, manage your creations in a new library, and share them externally. Let's dive in:

1️⃣ Street View Grounding: You can now generate worlds starting from real places! Just tap the Maps pin to choose a location in the US and you can pick a style like "Desert Sands" or "Ocean World." Describe your character, and Genie ties your starting location to real-world imagery.

2️⃣ Library: You can now store and organize your generated worlds. Easily explore past creations or remix your favorites to iterate on your ideas.

3️⃣ External sharing: You can now share your generated worlds. Anyone can watch a video preview of your world, and Ultra subscribers can explore or remix them. Check out a shared world here: https://t.co/kmqi5t6yTW

✨ And now, Project Genie is gradually rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18+). Jump in and start creating today!

[Pavan Kumar @pk_notes]

Really excited to share what I've been working on lately!

We built the ability to use Project Genie to explore any Street View location or reimagine real-world places in completely new ways (starting in the US). 🧞🗺️✨

You can try it at https://t.co/e2xE6XYbAU

[Google @Google]

Project Genie is a @GoogleLabs experiment that lets you simulate dynamic worlds you can navigate in real time with Genie, our general-purpose world model.

Today, we’re connecting Project Genie to nearly 20 years of Street View data from Google Maps — so you can now build interactive spaces based on real-world locations.

Street View imagery in Project Genie is available now for places in the U.S., and will expand to more locales over time.

#GoogleIO

[The Verge @verge]

The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026 https://t.co/eMahK5E2wB

[The Verge @verge]

Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears https://t.co/XoXh6tDWhe

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Woot! You can now simulate real world places by grounding Genie 3 experiences with Street View imagery.

Google sitting on the mother lode of real world data, and is starting to put it to work!

Let's dive into some prompts & locations I tested...

[Elton R. Jones @theerj]

Direct access to AI representations of trusted experts are just a click away | @tomsguide https://t.co/401Ndb8BbV

[Nir Eyal @nireyal]

So... I never thought I'd build an AI version of myself. But here we are.

Google Labs asked me to create a "Portrait": an AI trained on my frameworks around distraction, habit formation, and behavioral design.

The goal: To make insights from my books Hooked and Indistractable accessible to anyone, anytime.

The process was fascinating.

Teaching an AI to think like me forced me to clarify my own thinking.

When I was asked, "How would you respond to someone struggling with constant distraction?" I had to distill years of research into clear, actionable steps.

It was humbling.

If you’re interested in taking a look, here’s how the Portrait can help you:

→ Identify what's triggering your distraction
→ Build better habits using the Hooked Model
→ Create systems that protect your attention
→ Apply behavioral design to products or your own life

It's not perfect. It can't replace human judgment or nuance.

But it can give you a starting point - with 24/7 access to frameworks that took me decades to develop.

If you're working on becoming indistractable, building habit-forming products, or just trying to understand why you keep getting pulled off track, give it a try here: https://t.co/nd18dUUTXd

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Today we're launching a major upgrade to the image generation capabilities of our Gemini 3 model. Gemini 3 Pro Image can generate an incredible array of realistic imagery, complex visuals, infographics and more. Here are some examples:

Show me a chart of the solar system and annotate each planet with one interesting fact

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Gemini 3 ✨

It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding, and our most powerful agentic + vibe coding model yet. Gemini 3 can bring any idea to life, quickly grasping context and intent so you can get what you need with less prompting. 

Find Gemini 3 Pro rolling out today in the @Geminiapp and AI Mode in Search. For developers, build with it now in @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI. 

Excited for you to try it!

[Josh Woodward @joshwoodward]

We just shipped our biggest update to Gemini Live ever. It's smarter. It's more expressive. It has accents. And my favorite: it can talk faster! Here are 3 ways people are already using it in @GeminiApp. 🧵

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing our latest Gemini Live model 🔊, built on all the things you love about Gemini, with significantly improved function calling and more natural feeling / sounding conversations (thanks to native audio)!

Try out the new model at https://t.co/FpVyUQ9oEY

[Arena.ai @arena]

🚨🍌Breaking News: Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview (“nano-banana”) by @GoogleDeepMind now ranks #1 in Image Edit Arena. In just two weeks:

🟡“nano-banana” has driven over 5 million community votes in the Arena
🟡Record-breaking 2.5M+ votes casted for this model alone
🟡It has achieved the largest Elo score lead in Arena history (a monster 171 point lead)

Huge congrats to @GoogleDeepMind!

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

What if you could not only watch a generated video, but explore it too? 🌐

Genie 3 is our groundbreaking world model that creates interactive, playable environments from a single text prompt.

From photorealistic landscapes to fantasy realms, the possibilities are endless. 🧵

[Pavan Kumar @pk_notes]

Excited that our 2nd Portrait has launched! 🎉

We worked alongside @MatthewDicks, 62-time @TheMoth StorySLAM champion and author of Storyworthy to create an AI storytelling coach designed to help you find the moments in your life that make memorable stories worth sharing.

Try it on Google Labs: https://t.co/dDqCrEHVWd

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Today we are excited to introduce our next Portrait: @MatthewDicks! A teacher, storyteller, and the best-selling author of Storyworthy, Matt can help you use the power of storytelling to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Try it today: https://t.co/8nWPwVXxZ9