We need more research of reasoning under uncertainty in LLMs. We cannot get to AGI without it. Our progress toward AGI is in trouble because we're over invested in deductive reasoning.

Computex forum keynote. Fun times.

Hanging out with @lmthang and @YiTayML for multiple days in Vietnam and Google Singapore. And great event with @newturing on AI and humanity. Thank you for hosting!!

Gemini 3.5 Flash is amazing! - Performs better than 3.1 Pro on coding & agentic tasks - 4x faster than other frontier models - 12x faster in @antigravity - 800 tokens/sec! - Often at less than half the cost And Pro to come… Try it in @antigravity, @GeminiApp & more - enjoy!

Dr. @edchi will join GStar Summit 2026 for a keynote on foundation models and a panel discussion on frontier AI. Website for program details and ticket registration: summit.newturing.ai/ Be part of the conversation!

A Hypothesis: Agents of the future could communicate to each other using thought tokens. Corollary: Humans will have to decode those thought tokens in order to find out what the agents are doing with each other. Note: GenZers are already doing this with their slang. No Cap.

While Agentic AI is brewing (and exploding), are you preparing for the next wave? What's the next wave of new ideas?

Thrilled to share: #Aletheia, our math research agent, just solved 6/10 notoriously hard FirstProof problems autonomously, the best result in the inaugural challenge! To me, this is even bigger than our historic IMO-gold achievement last year; these problems challenge even top mathematicians. We share our results transparently, see paper and full thoughts in the thread. 👇

In the social media era, kids actually feel more loneliness---ironically. As a former social computing researcher, this is deeply depressing to me. freerangekids.com/surge-in-c… h/t Kristina Lerman #WSDM 2026 keynote

Announcing Personal Intelligence, a more personalized @GeminiApp designed just for you. How it works: — Customized: With your permission, it reasons across your @Gmail, @YouTube, @GooglePhotos, and Search apps to share hyper-relevant and context-aware responses — Secure: If enabled, you control which Google apps to connect to. This setting is off by default — Useful: From travel plans based on your Google Photos to gym recommendations based on goals you’ve shared with Gemini, you get help tailored to your world Personal Intelligence in beta is rolling out to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S., with expansions to the free tier, more countries, and AI Mode in Search to come. Take a look at the Gemini app's personalized assistance in the clip below, then let us know what you would use it for!

Joint Statement: Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year. After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users. Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.

Hot take: Model capability gap and switching cost will determine much of the AI development race in 2026.

I remember having this debate on small vs large models a little less than 3 years ago. Amazing.

Ilya said the quiet part out loud on Dwarkesh's pod, but most people still aren't processing what it means. Here's what's actually happening inside AI labs. Research teams have entire divisions that do nothing but create new RL training environments specifically designed to boost benchmark scores. They treat AIME, SWE-bench, and MMLU like standardized tests. The model practices 10,000 hours on competitive programming problems until every proof technique is at its fingertips. Then it fails to fix a simple bug in production without introducing two new ones. Sutskever used the perfect analogy. Student A grinds 10,000 hours of competitive programming. Memorizes every algorithm, every edge case, every proof technique. Becomes the #1 ranked competitive coder in the world. Student B practices 100 hours but has "it." Intuition. Taste. The ability to learn new things quickly. Who has the better career? Student B. Current AI models are all Student A. The benchmark gaming runs deeper than most realize. Studies have shown data contamination inflates model scores by 20-80% on popular benchmarks. The training-test boundary is porous. Models memorize answers rather than learn concepts. And when you control for contamination, much of what looks like intelligence is pattern-matching on seen data. This explains the economic puzzle Ilya pointed to. Models score 100% on AIME 2025. They hit 70% on GDPval beating human professionals. Yet businesses still struggle to extract value. The benchmark performance says genius. The P&L says otherwise. The sample efficiency gap tells you everything. A human teenager learns to drive any car after 10 hours. An AI model might need millions of examples and still fail on slight variations. A human learns a concept once and applies it everywhere. Models need to see the exact pattern thousands of times and still choke when the formatting changes slightly. Sutskever's diagnosis: we're moving from the "age of scaling" (2020-2025) back to the "age of research." The belief that 100x more compute would transform everything is dying. His $3B company SSI is betting that the next breakthrough comes from solving generalization, not stacking more GPUs. The labs know this. That's why the benchmark arms race is accelerating. It's easier to show impressive numbers than admit the fundamental approach might be plateauing.

The best thing about #NeurIPS is hearing about the different takes on what are the major new innovations from people who went to #NeurIPS. It's a giant elephant. :)

We just dropped Nano Banana Pro, built on Gemini 3. 🍌 With state-of-the-art text rendering, vast world knowledge and studio-quality creative controls, Gemini 3 Pro Image can create and edit more complex visuals, infographics and more. Here’s what’s under the hood. 🧵