Josh Woodward

VP, Google Labs & Gemini · 1 appearance on the record.

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Josh Woodward is the Vice President of Google Labs & Gemini. He oversees the development and demonstration of advanced AI tools, including Gemini, NotebookLM, Flow, Stitch, and Project Mariner.

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1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Woodward: Google's Veo 3 adds sound to AI video generation
“Today's announcement is actually the ability to take this VO three model, which is unbelievable because it has incredible realism and physics and everything on the visual side, but it also adds sound. And so you can create these videos. They're 8:02 clips, sev…”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 7:00 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)

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Woodward: Future AI Interaction Will Center on Multi-Agent Dashboards, Not Chat
“These kind of dashboard interfaces are these bird's eye views of what's happening. To me, this feels like a glimpse of what's coming in the future where you're able to kind of manage and oversee and give different assignments.”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 35:46 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
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Woodward: Google's Jules Coding Agent Can Fix 30 Backlog Bugs Per Minute
“You can just put Jules on a GitHub backlog and it'll fix like 30 bugs in a minute.”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 36:31 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
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Woodward: Flow and Veo achieve consistent characters across AI video scenes
“And what's amazing about flow and VO as a model is that we're starting to get to this point where you have consistent characters and scenes.”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 16:28 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
Assertion Supported
Woodward: Google's Veo 3 adds sound to AI video generation
“Today's announcement is actually the ability to take this VO three model, which is unbelievable because it has incredible realism and physics and everything on the visual side, but it also adds sound. And so you can create these videos. They're 8:02 clips, sev…”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 7:00 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
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Woodward: Engineers Emerge as Key Users for Google's Stitch UI Tool
“We originally thought like, okay, who might like this? Maybe it's designers. Maybe it's PMs. Turns out engineers really like this tool because they can describe maybe a screen if it's like someone trying to start a company and they get like good base level of …”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 28:25 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
Disclosure
Woodward: Google AI Products Will Move Beyond Chat-Only Interfaces
“But I think across Stitch, across Flow, definitely across the Gemini app, you're going to see a lot more features like that photosynthesis example, where we're trying to get people into a more natural state. Chat is not always the most natural state for intera…”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 30:32 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
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Woodward: Creators have stitched up to an hour of video using Flow
“I think flow, you can think of it as really for folks who might have a longer duration project. They may want to do something over several minutes, or maybe we've seen people do up close to an hour of stitching things together.”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 19:47 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)
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Woodward: Collaborative notebook sharing is driving major NotebookLM growth
“And what's been really cool is we've enabled a lot of sharing recently in the last couple of weeks. So people are creating notebooks and sharing them either with their friends or their colleagues at work or even in a class. And you're starting to get almost li…”
Josh Woodward Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 24:30 5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
5 NEW Tools from Google AI to make money/be productive (INSANITY) Jul 21, 2025 26m
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