Google Takes No Prisoners Amid Torrent of AI Announcements

I think Google was asked how many AI breakthroughs they would reveal yesterday on stage and they replied yes because two and a bit years after Microsoft CEO said he wanted to make Google dance Google's CEO Zundachai and resident noble laurate Demesis Arbis performed a 2-hour breakdance routine honestly there were enough announcements to make 10 to 12 separate videos but for now I will just give you a sense of the breadth of what they released or said they would soon release not going going to lie, it was kind of tempting to make the entire video a VO3 montage, but no, it was much more than that. Suffice to say, every other AI rival on the planet took a big gulp. So, from the useful to the entertaining, the impressive to the meh, here's the gist of the 12 most interesting to me dance moves. Now, I have to start obviously with V3 because adding sound to video was such an obvious step, but the effect is remarkable.

Generating videos with built-in dialogue really changes things, doesn't it? V2 was already incredible, but across a thousand prompts, VO3 outperformed V2 and the newly released Cling 2.0 and of course, OpenAI Sora. Over 80% of the time, people preferred V3's output. But before I get to the obligatory 45 seconds worth of samples, a quick word on price and availability.

Only the $250 tier, Google AI Ultra will get access to V3 currently. Oh, and that's only if you are in the US. And trust me, I have tried to get access, but so far to no avail. This isn't like Sora where a quick VPN will do the trick.

With that caveat said, in these clips, notice both the dialogue that's generated by V3 and the sound effects. The sum of the squares of the two shorter sides is equal to the square of the longest side. Our video model. Yeah, it's the best.

Straight up. No cap. You know how we do. V3 rules.

Yeah, the whole damn crew. But if you thought that yesterday's IO was just V3 plus a sprinkle of other bits, then you might well be in for a surprise because I don't know if you caught this, but the Gemini 2.5 flash update was a price shock akin to the Deepseek R1 bombshell. Think performance on par with Deepseek R1 at ...