Google's AI model and app. Built by Google DeepMind, it's embedded throughout Search and Android. Recently, Gemini 3.7 Flash was praised for boosting intelligence benchmarks over its predecessor while cutting response times (August 2026). A coding-focused version, Gemini 3.7 Flash, was also released and reportedly outperformed Anthropic's code model on benchmarks (August 2026). Google's new Pixel Watch 5 smartwatch shipped with offline Gemini, usable without an internet connection, which came alongside a price increase (August 2026). Around the same time, Google introduced a policy letting users remove the visible watermark previously attached to images generated by Gemini and its other AI tools (August 2026).
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Google published an overview of two decades of language AI research on September 15 under the name of SVP James Manyika, covering technology that now reaches 300 languages and 7 billion people. Its backbone is models that process audio directly instead of translating text, and language data recorded by the communities themselves.
Google Research on September 15 published Retrieve-for-Train, a framework that returns search results as one coherent set, alongside its ICML 2026 paper. Running reinforcement learning once to teach a small diffusion model made query fan-out 12 to 20 times faster.
Google published a 26-page crisis resilience white paper on September 15 under the names of Yossi Matias, vice president of Google Research, and Kate Brandt, chief sustainability officer. It gathers the company's AI disaster-prediction work in one volume, from flood forecasts seven days out and cyclone forecasts 15 days out to cases where warnings turned into cash assistance and paused loan repayments.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15. The two voice models run tools in the background mid-conversation and reason while they speak, and Extended Thinking took first place on the Speech to Speech Quality Index with a score of 82.6.
The Tencent Hunyuan team released the EvolveScaler paper and project page on September 15, an information-evolution data framework. On data built by defining state in code first and then rendering it as natural language, the median avg@5 across 14 models fell to 11.3 on the longest tier.
Parse 5, the document-parsing vision language model Cohere released on August 27, scores 79.2 on ParseBench, below GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8. The company published that table itself and led instead with throughput and cost: 2,160 pages a minute on eight H100s.
Google DeepMind used an X thread on September 14 to present WeatherNext 3 for the power industry. The model forecasts wind speed at 100-meter turbine height, solar radiation and cloud cover every hour so wind and solar producers can estimate output and match it to grid demand.
Japanese startup MW showed off MW bot, a housekeeping robot that moves along ceiling rails, for the first time on September 10 in Tokyo's Toyosu district. Rather than building a humanoid, the company is redesigning the house itself around the robot — though the day's demo was remote-controlled by a human, not run by AI.
Specific released Real-SWE on September 12, a benchmark that measures AI coding models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Fable 5.1 led with a 38.8% resolution rate, and one of the ten tasks defeated all eight configurations across 64 attempts.
No photograph or film survives of the day Burt and Ethelle Shatz first met. More than 70 years into their marriage, with his memory fading, Google DeepMind mapped the couple's present-day mannerisms onto their younger faces to rebuild that day.
Google Research inverted the way training data for tool use is made. Building the question first and then hunting for an answer failed more than three times in ten; reversing the order took the pass rate to 99.8 percent.
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