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Google announces all products will be AI focused · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast, the world's authority
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  on Tesla, SpaceX X Neurolink, and all things Elon.
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  I'm your host, Will Walden. I've been using Current as my
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  bank for about four years and it's honestly been a really
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  They're boring and also their apps aren't that good.
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  So go to the link in the show notes, check out Current and
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  sign up and support the show. Google pours artificial
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  intelligence into nearly every product that it makes.
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  Imagine if the same technology reshaped search, coding,
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  shopping, and communication across every screen and phone.
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  Now could that wave redefine daily computing for billions of
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  users? Executives opened Google IO 2025
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  in Mountain View with hard numbers.
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  Daily query routed through Gemini models tripled over six
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  months. That Ironwood Tensor Processing
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  unit launching this year, will deliver 42.5 exaflops to Google
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  Cloud customers. Those gains frame every
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  announcement that follows. Google rebuilt its subscription
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  ladder AI Pro at $20.00 per month, rebrands Gemini Advanced
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  and adds faster responses, logger context windows, VO3
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  video generation, and 30 gigabytes of prompt history.
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  AI Ultra at 50 per month, $250 with half price for three months
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  grants access to the largest Gemini weights, loose rate
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  limits, a preview agent manager and 30 terabytes of storage
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  company positions AI Ultra for studios that need uninterrupted
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  multi modal reasoning. Now Chrome receives AI mode for
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  anyone over 18 on beta, dev or Canary channels.
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  The assistant reads open tabs, summarizes research labels, code
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  diffs and drafts documentation. Engineers plan multi tab
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  synthesis in full voice navigation.
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  Next. These tasks stay local when
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  policy rules forbid cloud transfer.
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  Now Android 16 arrives with Material 3 expressive tight,
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  tight runtime permissions for local LLM calls and deep Gemini
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  hooks and settings, keyboard and share sheet workflows.
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  Gemini Live, the voice first companion, moves out of Project
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  Astra Incubation. As managing editor Patrick
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  Holland states, Astra is a rehearsal of features that, when
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  they're ready for the spotlight, get added to Gemini Live.
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  The public build pivots from quick chat to structured
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  workflow on a single phrase, letting users plan trips, split
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  chores into calendar tasks, and request code samples.
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  Now. Google also previewed
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  lightweight XR glasses that project a 110° field of view at
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  90 frames per second. Snapdragon XR3 chip manages pose
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  tracking while the cloud resolves language queries built
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  in microphones and Bode conduction speakers.
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  Root Gemini Live prompts so users can identify tools,
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  translate text, or follow cooking steps without lifting up
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  their phone. Now Google Search gains an AI
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  mode that replaces classic link lists with real time overviews
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  that blend web data, personal files and shopping assistance.
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  Customers can upload selfies to test clothing fit through a
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  cloth simulation model derived from VO.
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  Now civil rights groups warn about biometric risk and Google
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  counters with end to end encryption and on demand purge
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  controls. There's a thing called Google
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  Beam. It revised project Starline with
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  A6 camera array that captures full body volumetric video at 60
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  frames per second. And HP Partnership will produce
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  meeting room units in a compact clinic model for telehealth
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  underlying a light field. Streams preserve eye contact as
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  participants shift, boosting presence without any headgear,
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  and creative workers receive Flow with Imogen 4 and VO3 into
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  a single pipeline for storyboard creation, scene extension, and
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  also automatic audio. Flow maintains color palette and
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  character scale between prompts, solving consistency gaps that
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  plagued earlier generators. Imogen 4 sharpens text edges and
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  micro textures, while VO3 adds native ambient sound and
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  dialogue. Both sit inside AI Pro, while
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  Flow requires AI Ultra. Now developers see Gemini Code
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  Assist in the cloud workstations.
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  The tool scans build logs, proposes fixes, and sites open
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  source references directly in Visual Studio Code or Jetbrains
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  Ides. During a live demo, Gemini
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  completed Pokémon Blue on original Gameboy hardware
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  without scripted aid. Planning in adapting to random
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  battles to showcase long horizon reasoning.
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  These tools matter because people spend most computer hours
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  in browsers, in boxes, and on their phones.
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  Chrome AI mode can compress research tasks, while
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  personalized smart replies promise to trim inbox fatigue by
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  matching each sender's tone. XR glasses Free hands in
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  warehouses, kitchens and hospital wards, where instant
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  object recognition speeds workflows and developers face
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  fresh cost capability trade-offs.
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  AI Ultra cuts prototype time for large projects, yet charges a
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  premium fee that may push small studios toward open source
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  alternatives. The new tiers emulate the
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  creative software market, where professionals accept monthly
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  bills for specialized power. Now, privacy safeguards remain
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  central. Tryon features rely on sensitive
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  body data, and AI agents sift through personal documents.
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  Google publishes clear opt out switches and encryption claims,
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  but independent audits will determine user trust.
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  Now competition frames every feature, though Chrome AI mode
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  counters Microsoft Copilot in Edge, XR Glasses Challenge,
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  Metaquest 3 and Apple Vision Pro Beam squares against Cisco
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  holographic calls, and Flow answers Open AI Solar pipeline.
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  Consumers and developers will decide which ecosystem delivers
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  the best balance of convenience, price, and control of the
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  output. Google closed the keynote by
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  setting a 96% success rate among IO Codelab attendees who shipped
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  functional apps on day one using Gemini Cloud Run and Firebase.
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  That figure underlines Google's effort to shorten the path from
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  idea to deployment. If you have an idea, you should
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  be able to deploy it. It shouldn't take you months of
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  development, according to Google.
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  Google IO 2025 links model upgrades, premier tiers, and
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  hardware advances into one funnel that feeds both hobbyists
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  and enterprises. The next year will Revere
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  whether your users embrace the subscriptions, trust the privacy
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  of Google, and the actual find real value in the expanded AI
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