# 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

1. **Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems** (Google DeepMind, 13 Oct 2026): 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](https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-4-argon) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai#item-1)
2. **Gemini 3.5 Transcribe** (Google, 24 Aug 2026): A speech-to-text model from the Gemini line, released as its own product for transcription work. [Primary source](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai#item-6)
3. **Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations** (Google DeepMind, 24 Aug 2026): Outside evaluators tested a Gemini model without seeing its weights, and Google never saw the test prompts, which limits benchmark contamination. [Primary source](https://deepmind.google/blog/piloting-the-worlds-first-double-blind-ai-evaluations/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai#item-7)
4. **Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2** (Google DeepMind, 27 Jul 2026): 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](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-27-week-in-ai#item-1)
5. **Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music** (Google, 27 Jul 2026): Google's music model gets a 3.5 update inside Flow Music, with changes to musicality, lyrics, vocals and creative control. [Primary source](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/lyria-3-5/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-27-week-in-ai#item-5)
6. **Gemma 4 12B** (Google, 1 Jun 2026): 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](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12B/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-06-01-week-in-ai#item-3)
7. **AlphaEvolve updates** (Google, 18 May 2026): Real-world uses reported in supply chains, chip design, molecular simulation and power grids. [Primary source](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/alphaevolve-updates/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-05-18-week-in-ai#item-9)
8. **Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)** (Google, 23 Feb 2026): Pro-level image quality at Flash speed, with better text rendering and consistency across characters and objects. [Primary source](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai#item-1)
9. **TranslateGemma** (Google, 12 Jan 2026): Open translation models built on Gemma, in sizes that fit on ordinary hardware. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/google/translategemma-4b-it) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-12-week-in-ai#item-2)
10. **MedGemma 1.5** (Google, 12 Jan 2026): An updated open medical model from Google, small enough to run inside a hospital's own environment. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/google/medgemma-1.5-4b-it) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-12-week-in-ai#item-3)
11. **Gemini 3 Flash** (Google, 15 Dec 2025): 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](https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-15-week-in-ai#item-1)
12. **FunctionGemma 270M** (Google, 15 Dec 2025): A tiny Gemma tuned for function calling, built to run on a phone or a laptop and route requests to tools. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/google/functiongemma-270m-it) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-15-week-in-ai#item-7)
13. **Gemini 3** (Google, 17 Nov 2025): Google's new flagship model, reasoning-first, launched across Search, the Gemini app and the API on day one. [Primary source](https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-17-week-in-ai#item-1)
14. **Build with Google Antigravity** (Google, 17 Nov 2025): An agent-first coding environment where agents plan, run the editor, terminal and browser, and leave verifiable artifacts. [Primary source](https://developers.googleblog.com/build-with-google-antigravity-our-new-agentic-development-platform/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-17-week-in-ai#item-2)
15. **Veo 3.1** (Google, 13 Oct 2025): Richer native audio, reference images and scene extension arrive in the Flow filmmaking tool and the Gemini API. [Primary source](https://blog.google/technology/ai/veo-updates-flow/) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-10-13-week-in-ai#item-3)
16. **VaultGemma 1B** (Google, 8 Sept 2025): A Gemma trained from scratch with differential privacy, so it can't memorize and repeat individual training records. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/google/vaultgemma-1b) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-08-week-in-ai#item-4)
17. **EmbeddingGemma 300M** (Google, 1 Sept 2025): A small multilingual embedding model built to run on a phone or laptop with no server. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-01-week-in-ai#item-3)

## Posts

- 2026-10-14 [Gemini 4 Argon lands, Run:ai goes open source](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-14-gemini-4-argon-lfm-runai)
- 2026-08-24 [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open up](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai)
- 2026-07-27 [Gemini Robotics 2, plus Korean labs open 700B-class models](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-27-week-in-ai)
- 2026-06-01 [Nemotron 3 Ultra ships, MiniMax M3, Gemma 4 12B, Glasswing grows](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-06-01-week-in-ai)
- 2026-05-18 [Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-05-18-week-in-ai)
- 2026-02-23 [Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLM](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai)
- 2026-01-12 [Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editor](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-12-week-in-ai)
- 2025-12-15 [Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-15-week-in-ai)
- 2025-11-17 [Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-17-week-in-ai)
- 2025-10-13 [Claude Haiku 4.5, Skills, Veo 3.1, and nanochat](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-10-13-week-in-ai)
- 2025-09-08 [Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 Thinking](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-08-week-in-ai)
- 2025-09-01 [Kimi K2 stretches to 256K, Switzerland opens Apertus](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-01-week-in-ai)

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