Tag: gemini

It is intended to let you «explore ideas quickly» with a «high quality outcome.»

The app can take input from text, images, or code, and provides you with an entire design language that you can pick and choose from, with an «infinite» canvas storing your ideas.

It should be equally good at designing for the web and apps, but does come out as somewhat boilerplate and generic.

I tried to get it to brainstorm a little about improving the design of this webpage, and the results were terrible, but it might be worth it for other projects.

The improved Stitch is available at stitch.withgoogle.com and can be accessed for free anywhere Gemini is available.

Read more: Google’s introduction, launch tweet.

— People are appreciating the highly tailored help they’re getting in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, Google says.

Personal intelligence can be useful for anything that involves your history with Google, like searching for another pair of sneakers you already bought, shopping for a bag to go with said shoes — or are planning a travel itinerary based on past preferences.

You need to be signed into a personal Google account for it to work, and it is not available for Workspace business, Enterprise, or Education users, TechCrunch notes.

The feature is also explicitly opt-in, and you have to choose to turn it on. There are also granular controls for disabling each app or service, so you can opt out of having Gemini scour your previous web searches and use them in replies, for instance.

Read more: Google’s announcement, TechCrunch and 9to5Google.

The feature is supposed to work great for questions of where to find the nearest restroom, or a cozy vegan restaurant nearby — and it even lets you book a table right from the app.

To achieve this, Gemini will scan information from the Maps database consisting of some 300 million places and reviews from over 500 million contributors to find you just the right spot.

Ask Maps also remembers your previous saved spots or queries, so it will know that you are vegetarian, say, or if you have any special needs or preferences.

Of course, once you find a spot, Maps will help you navigate to get there — and in the biggest update in a decade, you now get a 3D driving experience.

Ask Maps is only available on mobile in the USA and India, with desktop support «coming soon.»

Read more: Google’s announcement, The Verge, Engadget.

— Today, we’re making Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive more personal, capable and collaborative to help you get things done, faster, Google says.

All these apps can now draw on information from your Drive, Gmail, Chat and web search to draft things like emails and docs, or pull numbers for spreadsheets based on, say, an email conversation, meeting notes or separate sources in Drive. All it takes is a single prompt.

Google is especially proud of their agentic performance on Sheets, getting very close to the human expert benchmark on the SpreadsheetBench dataset.

The features are rolling out to all Ultra and Pro subscribers globally today, but is only available in English. Google is looking to bring on «more languages soon.»

Read more: Google’s announcement, launch thread. Writeups on 9to5Google and TechCrunch.

The AI learning and note-taking app can now illustrate your research through «rich, detailed visuals» in full bore video.

Previously, it could only make a slide show of your notes, in addition to the killer feature of creating podcasts from them.

The new videos are possible through a combination of Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3 — with Gemini «acting as a creative director.»

The Gemini model makes «structural and stylistic» decisions on the fly, illustrating content word by word and in context to create something like the video above.

The feature is only available through the $300/month Google AI Ultra subscription, but it is sure to trikle down at a later stage

Read more: Google’s announcement, Android Police and The Verge.

Costing $0.25 for 1M input tokens and $1.50 for 1M output tokens, it is one of the cheapest models out there.

Compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash, it is 2.5x faster to the first answer, and 45% quicker in output speed, while maintaining quality.

This benefits high-frequency workloads, such as mass translations and content moderation where price is a priority, Google says.

Users of AI Studio and Vertex AI can also adjust its thinking levels, making it possible to balance speed and complexity.

Read more: Google’s announcement, Android Central, Tom’s Guide.

It’s the new leader on the benchmarks, almost solving ARC-AGI with 98% and hitting 77% on ARC-AGI 2, the problem solver benchmark, more than doubling Gemini 3’s results.

It also scores 44.4% on Humanity’s Last Exam, which is the best yet and definitly makes it the new state-of-the art.

Gemini 3 Pro was only released last November, so this new point-release might well signal where frontier labs are heading next — incremental updates every few months rather than full blown giant steps every six months to a year.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is rolling out today «in preview» to Pro and Ultra plans, and it’s also in NotebookLM for those users. Developers should also get a taste soon. Pricing is the same as Gemini 3 Pro.

Read more: Google’s announcement, launch thread. See also 9to5Google, Ars Technica and TechCrunch. Discussion on r/Singularity.