Rod Graves

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 🧵 ↓

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!

@dabit3 joy of missing out dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/32…

what's the opposite of fomo? feeling this way about a lot of things rn

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 ⤵️

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.

🚨 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.

@dustin Recommend Oberwerth - expensive but the materials, production, and details are top notch: us.oberwerth.com/collections/ka…

lazyweb: any recs for a camera bag for a fuji mirrorless? something small and subtle. thank you 🙏

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

@balajis rgraves.eth

The Network State is now #18 on Kindle. If we get to #10, we'll ship a paperback. If we get to #5, we'll do Audible. And if we get to #1 worldwide? We'll issue a commemorative NFT. To get it, reply to this thread with your preorder screenshot & ENS name. amazon.com/dp/B09VPKZR3G

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/… 1/3

@gmurphy NFT incoming? 🫣 You might like this: coolhunting.com/culture/cosmic…

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.

1/ With the omicron surge, I have had more friends send me screenshots of exposure notifications (EN) in the last week than I have in the last year. Here are some reflections based on the work I led at @Apple working with @Google and some thoughts on the road ahead. 🧵

@karrisaarinen Hineighbor.com - modular and well constructed if you're looking for something modern.

Outdoor furniture brands? Looking for dining table and lounge/sectional. Having a really hard time finding anything good

@dflieb @patrickc @Google @TrautmanErika cc @jenniferdaniel

@patrickc @Google cc @TrautmanErika

@Google Could you add support for :emoji: shortcuts in G Suite? (At least in comments. Maybe it would be annoying in the main editing area.)

@iamharaldur Can't help but feel a Kubrick vibe, ceiling vs floor notwithstanding :D

@jonwiley @seefeld @komorama Not surprised to see you picked up on exactly this connection Jon ☺️

From a recent chat with @komorama: Visualizing how your future users aren't yet in your metrics nor complaining loudly, making you blind to opportunity. FWIW, there's an analogy to cities here: Potential future inhabitants can't vote and have different interests than incumbents.

@gordonbrander @gordonbrander I think you’d also enjoy Hesse’s “Das Glasperlenspiel“ / “The Glass Bead Game” - nice allegorical/fictional companion to Carse:

@gordonbrander I've wondered about GPT-3 et al as creative aids: an amanuensis that introduces a bit of memetic drift to aid lateral thinking - love to chat if that resonates (roam plugin perhaps?)

@sdw @elliswes Definitely agree; lots of great options to choose from but happily recommend the Zeiss f/1.4 Distagon :D

@elliswes You want a 35! My best lens I ever got and I wouldn’t honestly shoot anything else if I was forced to make a choice.

Looking to buy my first Leica lens and I just CANT decide if I want a 28 & 50 or a 35. I hate being so indecisive about lenses