Ali Asif

The AI log, by topic

Google: what I’ve logged

Google comes up in 12 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music and Gemma 4 12B, filed under frontier, open weights and robotics.

Items that mention Google

  1. Google DeepMind 13 Oct 2026

    Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

    Google's new frontier model, live in the API, Antigravity and the Gemini app, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at launch.

    Primary source

  2. Google 24 Aug 2026

    Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

    A speech-to-text model from the Gemini line, released as its own product for transcription work.

    Primary source

  3. Google DeepMind 24 Aug 2026

    Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

    Outside evaluators tested a Gemini model without seeing its weights, and Google never saw the test prompts, which limits benchmark contamination.

    Primary source

  4. Google DeepMind 27 Jul 2026

    Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2

    Three robot models covering whole-body control, embodied reasoning and on-device use, with ER 2 already open to developers in Google AI Studio.

    Primary source

  5. Google 27 Jul 2026

    Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music

    Google's music model gets a 3.5 update inside Flow Music, with changes to musicality, lyrics, vocals and creative control.

    Primary source

  6. Google 1 Jun 2026

    Gemma 4 12B

    A June 3 mid-size Gemma that takes image and audio without separate encoders and runs on a 16GB laptop, under Apache 2.0.

    Primary source

  7. Google 18 May 2026

    AlphaEvolve updates

    Real-world uses reported in supply chains, chip design, molecular simulation and power grids.

    Primary source

  8. Google 23 Feb 2026

    Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)

    Pro-level image quality at Flash speed, with better text rendering and consistency across characters and objects.

    Primary source

  9. Google 12 Jan 2026

    TranslateGemma

    Open translation models built on Gemma, in sizes that fit on ordinary hardware.

    Primary source

  10. Google 12 Jan 2026

    MedGemma 1.5

    An updated open medical model from Google, small enough to run inside a hospital's own environment.

    Primary source

  11. Google 15 Dec 2025

    Gemini 3 Flash

    Google put its fast tier of Gemini 3 into the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search as the default, so most users now get a frontier-class model without picking one.

    Primary source

  12. Google 15 Dec 2025

    FunctionGemma 270M

    A tiny Gemma tuned for function calling, built to run on a phone or a laptop and route requests to tools.

    Primary source

  13. Google 17 Nov 2025

    Gemini 3

    Google's new flagship model, reasoning-first, launched across Search, the Gemini app and the API on day one.

    Primary source

  14. Google 17 Nov 2025

    Build with Google Antigravity

    An agent-first coding environment where agents plan, run the editor, terminal and browser, and leave verifiable artifacts.

    Primary source

  15. Google 13 Oct 2025

    Veo 3.1

    Richer native audio, reference images and scene extension arrive in the Flow filmmaking tool and the Gemini API.

    Primary source

  16. Google 8 Sep 2025

    VaultGemma 1B

    A Gemma trained from scratch with differential privacy, so it can't memorize and repeat individual training records.

    Primary source

  17. Google 1 Sep 2025

    EmbeddingGemma 300M

    A small multilingual embedding model built to run on a phone or laptop with no server.

    Primary source

Posts that cover Google

October 20261 entry

  1. 14 Oct 2026Gemini 4 Argon lands, Run:ai goes open sourceFrontier · Open weights · Robotics · Image, video, world · Science · Agents and coding

August 20261 entry

  1. Week of 24 Aug 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open upImage, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding · Policy and business

July 20261 entry

  1. Week of 27 Jul 2026Gemini Robotics 2, plus Korean labs open 700B-class modelsRobotics · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

June 20261 entry

  1. Week of 1 Jun 2026Nemotron 3 Ultra ships, MiniMax M3, Gemma 4 12B, Glasswing growsOpen weights · Robotics · Frontier · Agents and coding

May 20261 entry

  1. Week of 18 May 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Science

February 20261 entry

  1. Week of 23 Feb 2026Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLMOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business

January 20261 entry

  1. Week of 12 Jan 2026Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editorFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

December 20251 entry

  1. Week of 15 Dec 2025Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3Frontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

November 20251 entry

  1. Week of 17 Nov 2025Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business

October 20251 entry

  1. Week of 13 Oct 2025Claude Haiku 4.5, Skills, Veo 3.1, and nanochatFrontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Science

September 20252 entries

  1. Week of 8 Sep 2025Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 ThinkingAgents and coding · Open weights
  2. Week of 1 Sep 2025Kimi K2 stretches to 256K, Switzerland opens ApertusOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business