8 surprising ways we used AI at #GoogleIO this year 🧵↓

8️⃣ Sticker swag. 🖨️ We built an interactive sticker game on a custom web app. 🕹️ Attendees had 20 seconds to catch falling prompts using an Android bot to design wild, personalized stickers. There were over 100 prompt categories — from blueberries and disco balls to lasers and wood. Players selected two prompts, or hit "I'm feeling lucky" for a random mix. Our backend, using Nano Banana for Gemini and Android, fused these choices together. This created a highly personalized, custom I/O sticker design that was printed on the spot for attendees to collect.

Gemini in @GoogleChrome is now rolling out to more desktop and iOS users in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and more. Here’s what you can do: 📑 Summarize content and compare info across multiple tabs. 🤝 Use deep integrations with Google apps like @GoogleCalendar, @GoogleMaps, and @Gmail without leaving your page. 🍌 Transform online images with a text prompt using new Nano Banana 2 capabilities. 🧠 Use Personal Intelligence and connect Gmail, @GooglePhotos, @YouTube and Search to get tailored answers to your questions.

Ahead of Game 4 tonight, searches for the @nyknicks, @spurs, and the @NBA Finals are at an all-time high worldwide 🏀

Meet DiffusionGemma ⚡ Our latest experimental open model (Apache 2.0) that generates text up to 4x faster. Instead of predicting and typing just one word at a time like most language models, it drafts and refines entire blocks of text simultaneously. Here’s how it works 🧵 ↓

Because it generates everything at once, DiffusionGemma unlocks new patterns of model behavior. ⚡ Fast: Generates up to 1,000 tokens a second for up to 4x faster text generation. 💻 Lightweight: Runs smoothly right on 18GB consumer graphics cards. 🧠 Smart editing: Since it processes larger amounts of information at once, it can easily fill in blanks, format code, and fix its own errors in real time.