Google Labs

“The truly like the Gemini models are so powerful and we use Gemini 1.5 pro as sort of the base for notebook LM. And then we have a powerful voice model on top of it, an audio model on top of it.”

“So in this case, this is based on what they think is the most appropriate thing to say at the end.”

“I imagined that in the future, You could have an AI editor surface, right? Fully remixable, any input, any output, right? And that, that to me is sort of like a really powerful sort of core nugget where if you imagine you could take anything, whether it's vide…”

“When we launched it, actually, when we announced Project Tailwind, I think we only had three. We had three engineers, it was myself, we had a designer, we had Steven, and that was it.”

“It is now at a point where I have to hire a business development person because I was like, hey, I have to ship products, and I'm actually taking, like, customer calls every day now.”

“In labs, we have the environment to do it. We have the environment to move fast. We have far, far, far fewer processes, maybe even to a fault. Sometimes we'll go to meetings that are literally, you know, the product managers, the engineers, the designers all t…”

“The mobile app to me is such a big gap in terms of the experience today, which I think is like understandable considering where we're at in like the product development cycle. But I think that's the next horizon is, hey, how different is the mobile experience …”

“We have about 60,000 people in it.”

“In labs in particular, we start with the technology and it's actually a very interesting place to start where you're like, okay, what are the practical applications to this?”

“Where I think in the beginning we saw educators, learners really loved the product, and they were a lot of our demographic. It's really now a big mix of, I would say educators and learners are still a big part of it, but really professionals, right? Huge inter…”

“And so even between the period when we did the first IO last year to as recently as like last month, you know, we've only had about eight engineers or so.”

“The real secret sauce to what makes this really good is something we've built, which is a content studio.”

“Funny enough, we actually just launched search live actually out of labs this week. And so you can talk to search in a live AI setting, which is conversational voice, voice on when you're driving, you can just talk all the knowledge I talked about, what you ca…”

“And then we did bring it before labs actually to trusted tester group. There were maybe like, 500 people externally that we added onto it, and we had pings with them.”