David Black

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

Meet Gemma 4! Purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows on the hardware you own, and released under an Apache 2.0 license. We listened to invaluable community feedback in developing these models. Here is what makes Gemma 4 our most capable open models yet: 👇

Meet Gemma 4: our new family of open models you can run on your own hardware. Built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, we’re releasing them under an Apache 2.0 license. Here’s what’s new 🧵

Every month, we share a recap of some of our biggest AI moments. Here’s what you may have missed from March. We: 🗾 Gave @GoogleMaps its biggest update in a decade ✏️ Made it easier to create with Gemini in @googledocs, Sheets, Slides and @googledrive 🎶 Launched Lyria 3 Pro, our most advanced music generation model 🔎 Expanded Search Live globally, everywhere AI Mode is available 🤝 Introduced tools to help users migrate chats and context from other AI apps into @GeminiApp ⚡ Released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, our best audio model to date 💻 Upgraded the vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio

We just released Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date. Built from the same world-class research as Gemini 3, Gemma 4 brings breakthrough intelligence directly to your own hardware for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows. Released under a commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license so anyone can build powerful AI tools. 🧵↓

Gemma 4 is here, and it’s packing an incredible amount of intelligence per parameter 👇

Excited to launch Gemma 4: the best open models in the world for their respective sizes. Available in 4 sizes that can be fine-tuned for your specific task: 31B dense for great raw performance, 26B MoE for low latency, and effective 2B & 4B for edge device use - happy building!

Live UK bus tracking in @googlemaps now rolling out!

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it. To say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.

Hear what’s new from Gemini Live, now powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live 🗣️

Seeing great uptake on this, give it a try this weekend!

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"

Introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, our new realtime model to build voice and vision agents!! We have spent more than a year improving the model + infra + experience, the results? A step function improvement in quality, reliability, and latency.

Switching to Gemini from other AI apps just got easier. Starting to roll out today on desktop, you can now bring your preferences and chat history into Gemini, so you can pick up right where you left off in just a few clicks. 🧵

Google was just named #1 in the @FastCompany 2026 World’s Most Innovative Companies list. 🎉 Google is also ranked #1 in their Artificial Intelligence category. See the full story. fastcompany.com/most-innovativ…

"When [Sundar] Pichai says he’s taking a decade-long view of where the technology is going, it’s not just a platitude. That universal assistant he wrote about in that 2016 shareholder letter? Google is on the cusp of creating it" — @FastCompany’s new cover story on Google and AI. fastcompany.com/91502632/googl…

A few updates from across Google this week🧵 A new full-stack vibe coding experience is now in @GoogleAIStudio with the @Antigravity coding agent and a built-in @Firebase integration. Turn your prompts into amazing production-ready apps.

Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Google’s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow. 🎨Create with a smarter design agent: Describe a new business concept or app vision and see it take shape on an AI-native canvas. ⚡️ Iterate quickly: Stitch screens together into interactive prototypes and manage your brand with a portable design system. 🎤 Collaborate with voice: Use hands-free voice interactions to update layouts and explore new variations in real-time. Try it now (Age 18+ only. Currently available in English and in countries where Gemini is supported.) → stitch.withgoogle.com

A massive vote of confidence in our city. Google's expansion in King's Cross is just another example of how tech innovation is thriving in London.

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, and in the U.K. it affects 1 in 8 women. We partnered with Imperial College London and the NHS to see if AI can strengthen early detection efforts. The result: Our experimental research AI system identified 25% of the “interval cancers” that typically slip through traditional screenings.