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 🧵 ↓
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Great software feels like an extension of you. We're building @GeminiApp to be the most PERSONAL, PROACTIVE, and POWERFUL assistant.
👀Here's the strategy:
1/ PERSONAL: The best assistant gets you. It starts by knowing your past chats (launching soon), but we’ll go further: we’ll make it easy for you to bring in all of your @Google context (Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Search, YouTube, etc.) - with your permission! On the team, we call it “pcontext” (personalized context) and we’re testing it internally with our own info already.
2/ PROACTIVE: The best assistant anticipates. @GeminiApp will offer insights and actions before you ask, freeing your mind and time for what truly matters. Less prompting, more flow.
3/ POWERFUL: The best assistant turns your ideas into action. @GoogleDeepMind models (like 2.5 Pro) are exceptional - they can research, orchestrate, and create images, videos, and code. We’re in a new era of models, and a new era of user experiences are coming.
4/ Zooming out, @Google infrastructure & TPUs back all of this. It’s the kind of infra people dream about, but it actually exists here -- and it’s going to let us make all this FREE for everyone to try, especially students.
5/ One request: keep your feedback coming! We try to listen, build, and iterate fast. In the last ~3.5 weeks, we’ve shipped:
* Gemini 2.5 Flash
* Veo 2 for video generation
* Free Gemini plans for all U.S. students (more countries soon!)
* LaTeX support (top request)
* Upload and edit your images (started rolling out yesterday)
6/ @demishassabis and I will unpack all of this (and more) at Google I/O in <20 days! Let’s roll!
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My Android and Stripe worlds collide!
This week, we introduced Tap to Pay on Android—turning millions of Android devices into card readers. Users like @getsquire have integrated in just a couple of weeks.
How we built it with @Android ⤵️
💳📱 @Stripe built an SDK for Tap to Pay on Android using Google Play APIs and tools!
Tap to Pay on Android is an extension of the Terminal SDK, and it eliminates the need for additional hardware. Read their story and integrate today → goo.gle/41gNmk1
Fortunate enough to have open roles to fill on the core system UI team for Pixel and Android: one IC leadership role and two senior design roles. I'd especially love to help find new positions for designers recently laid off. DMs open; retweets welcome.
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🚨 New #ADBPodcast!
Check out ep. 187, System UI: A Retrospective, to learn how System UI evolved and how to make complicated systems easy to understand → goo.gle/3PBVRzM
Featuring hosts @tornorbye and @chethaase, and @dsandler and Adam Cohen from the SystemUI team.
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Back to the future! Navigating back is a quintessential part of the Android experience. We're adding novel framework/APIs so users can preview the destination of the back gesture. App developers can begin working towards this starting in Android 13. youtu.be/Elpqr5xpLxQ
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Tragically, millions of people in Ukraine now rely on air strike alerts to try get to safety. Working with the Ukrainian government, we're rolling out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for all Android phones in Ukraine. blog.google/inside-google/co… 1/3
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This is the one thing that most phones just don't have. From specs to features, the iPhone 13 Pro Max or S21 Ultra may be better, but I never feel attached to the phones.
There's something about Pixel UI and the haptics and features that make it charming and fun and personal.
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I'm very happy to see @Google & @Apple partnering on technology to help w/ COVID-19 contact tracing. Technology, coupled w/ strong consideration of privacy, will enable public health authorities to create apps w/ appropriate user opt-in.
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😃 Congrats to @frogdesign and @frogmut – celebrating 50 years of design! #frog50
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Schematically, intelligence is skill divided by experience (I = S/E). Deep learning enables arbitrarily high skill levels, but requires insanely high amounts of "experience" (data) to achieve these levels, resulting in an extremely low intelligence factor.
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A discussion on crafting product sounds & the future of sensory design with Matthew Bennett & Connor O’Sullivan with @smashingmag #UXSalon2019
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Everyone loves SpaceX, and thinks of Elon as the genius founder that invents new types of rockets that are cheaper, faster, more efficient.
It's fun to think of it as SpaceX versus NASA, or Silicon Valley vs Aerospace.
But let's talk about D&I, and logs. Logs as in timber. 🌲
Proud to share important new research on attention/distraction, and the "Joy of Missing Out" – from Android UX researchers @jul_2222 and Safia Baig: blog.google/products/android…
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Here's our handheld design lead, E.K, interviewed about Android 9 Pie's UI!
androidcentral.com/android-9…
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Android 9 Pie is here! We just pushed the code to the Android Open Source Project and rollout to Pixel starts today. Big thanks to the 140,000+ beta users for sharing their feedback and to the Google teams who worked so hard on the release android-developers.googleblo…





















