Pavan Kumar

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 🕹️

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: goo.gle/42j85pj ✨ And now, Project Genie is gradually rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18+). Jump in and start creating today!

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 labs.google/projectgenie

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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...

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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: portraits.google.com/nireyal

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

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!

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. 🧵

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 ai.studio/live

🚨🍌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!

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. 🧵

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: labs.google/portraits

🚨 NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨 Introducing Doppl, a new mobile app that lets you upload a photo or screenshot of an outfit and then creates a video of you wearing the clothes to help you find your ✨aesthetic ✨ Available on iOS and Android in the US to users 18+, download the experiment today and let us know what you think! Learn more → blog.google/technology/goo…

Thanks for the thoughtful review, @EricHSchwartz @TechRadar! My favorite line is, "Think of it like a Zoom call with a life coach who's recently given a successful TED Talk (and yes, the name is more than a little suggestive of the Harry Potter magic paintings)." Seeing our @GoogleLabs experiment evoke that sense of "Harry Potter magic paintings" feels like a personal win! 🪄

I love this new project by our @GoogleLabs colleagues, creating new kinds of helpful coaching tools through deep collaboration with experts. The first portrait is @kimballscott the best selling author of Radical Candor. Wish I had this years ago for the conversations I fumbled 😀

New project: labs.google/portraits Personalized guidance from your favorite expert, anytime you need it. First up, a collaboration with the incredible @kimballscott, author of "Radical Candor." Available in the US, 18+. More coming soon. 🙂 #AI #RadicalCandor #GoogleLabs

@ARPAN__G Hi Arpan! At the moment its limited to US, but we're working on expanding access soon. :)

@pk_notes Hey!! It’s limited only to US users??

Launch Day! SO EXCITED to introduce Portraits, the latest Google Labs experiment I've been working on! ✨ We're creating AI coaches directly with trusted experts, offering personalized, Gemini-powered guidance available 24x7. Try it out today at labs.google/portraits 🎉