Google: AI News Week Ending 12/05/2025

Google: AI News Week Ending 12/05/2025

December 5, 2025

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Introducing Google Workspace Studio to automate everyday work with AI agents | Google Workspace Blog https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/introducing-google-workspace-studio-agents-for-everyday-work

FOUR new cities are on the map! 🗺️ The future of mobility is expanding faster than ever and we’re thrilled to bring the proven experience of the Waymo Driver to more people. https://x.com/Waymo/status/1996217860440412641

Waymo started testing with a safety driver in Dallas just 4 months ago. They’re now fully driverless — no one but you in the car. Waymo has been expanding at >500% per year.”” / X https://x.com/fchollet/status/1996263334883266961

Gemini 3 Deep Think is now available https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/gemini-3-deep-think/

Built on Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro uses enhanced reasoning and real-world knowledge to visualize information better than ever ✨ You can also blend more elements than ever before, combining up to 14 images into a cohesive scene with just one prompt. See it in action in the”” / X https://x.com/Google/status/1996263265735749682

Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro are now available in Search in more countries, including India and the U.K., starting today 🥳 Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can try Gemini 3 Pro now in AI Mode. It brings depth and nuance to your hardest questions, including helpful https://x.com/Google/status/1995605066170998917

Generate crisp, 2K resolution images suitable for professional use with Nano Banana Pro. Pro tip: make sure to click “download” on your image instead of “copy” to get the full resolution. Show us yours ↓ https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1996252061651042751

Learn more about Nano Banana Pro ↓ https://x.com/Google/status/1996263275856904686

New day, new integration. 🍌 Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is now baked into Synthesia, so you can create images on the spot. Powered by @googlecloud and available on all plans! https://x.com/synthesiaIO/status/1996220160370266325

Image Leaderboard Update: 🖼️📊 Our image leaderboard ranks image generation AIs according to user preference – and Seedream 4.5 from @BytePlusGlobal is speeding up the rankings! Seedream 4.5’s standard version comes in at #4, just below Nano Banana Pro – and the Max version is https://x.com/yupp_ai/status/1997032930846396466

Nano banana pro is hitting the threshold for images that Veo 4 will unlock for video. We’ll suddenly go from static infographics to pro-grade animated motion graphics — like having a custom youtube video essay on any topic imaginable. And just like that ai video will become a”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1994110158138646693

Nano Banana Pro with 2k resolution is now #1 on the lmarena image editing leader board (with regular Nano Banana Pro at #2). It looks like users prefer higher resolution: who’d have thunk it?!”” / X https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1996457766349848753

Surprisingly good for the first try. Nano banana pro: “”create a map of the US where every state is made out of its most famous food (the states should actually look like they are made of the food, not a picture of the food). Check carefully to make sure each state is right.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/1995720976068137048

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/openai-ceo-declares-code-red-as-gemini-gains-200-million-users-in-3-months/

OpenAI Developing ‘Garlic’ Model to Counter Google’s Recent Gains — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-garlic-model-counter-googles-recent-gains

Scoop central! OpenAI has its response to Google’s Gemini 3 and it has a funny allium themed name. “Garlic,” the company’s new pretrained model, is performing well on coding and reasoning benchmarks, according to an internal memo. https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1995882259195564062

Gemini 3 Pro can now combine the Google Search tool with Structured Outputs. https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1995539879724294392

Google Workspace Updates: Now available: Create AI agents to automate work with Google Workspace Studio https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/12/workspace-studio.html

Introducing Google Workspace Studio, where anyone can build a custom AI agent in minutes to delegate the daily grind. Automate daily tasks and focus on the work that matters instead. → https://x.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/1996263985985769976

Visualizing my re-designed living room in 3D Nano banana -> World Labs -> WebAR (threejs) Each of these gaussian splats are only 1.5 mb in size (.spz file type) https://x.com/XRarchitect/status/1995541338335678801

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million https://x.com/slotkinjr/status/1995864439405375903

Touching the Elephant – TPUs | Consider the Bulldog https://considerthebulldog.com/tte-tpu/

we now have a @GoogleDeepMind Luma page for events where the team is going to https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1996938521051873494

Bringing vibe-coding to the enterprise with Replit | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/bringing-vibe-coding-to-the-enterprise-with-replit/

Gemini 3 Deep Think is here. Deep Think is our most advanced reasoning mode that explores multiple hypotheses simultaneously to give you an even more sophisticated output. https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1996656314983109003

gemini 3 vibe coding hackathon starts now build your best app to solve a real-world problem across science, health, education or business. $500,000 in Gemini API credit prizes competition ends dec 12 https://x.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/1996989141360537968

Google partners with Replit, in vibe-coding push https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html

Give this prompt a try “”Create an interactive visualization for the following: The 5-fold symmetry traced by Earth and Venus as they orbit the Sun.”” https://x.com/lmthang/status/1996696115920753115

Gemini 3 Deep Think mode is now live in the Gemini app for Ultra users. 🚀 Building on the technology that reached a gold-medal level at the ICPC World Finals & IMO, it uses parallel thinking to excel at difficult coding and scientific tasks. https://x.com/quocleix/status/1996659461851885936

Gemini 3 Pro is the frontier of multimodal AI, delivering SOTA performance across document, screen, spatial, and video understanding. Read our deep dive on how we’ve pushed our core capabilities to power hero use cases across: + Docs: “”derender”” complex docs into structured https://x.com/googleaidevs/status/1996973083467333736

Google out here building the Borg cube for real https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1995650915785986491

Happy to share that the @GoogleDeepMind Gemini team is starting a new research team in Singapore! This new team will be focused on advanced reasoning, LLM/RL and improving bleeding edge SOTA models such as Gemini, Gemini Deep Think and beyond. 🔥 This team will be led by yours https://x.com/YiTayML/status/1996640869584445882

I was in Singapore earlier this year to visit the office, and this is going to be a very-high impact part of the Gemini team! If you’re interested in working on Gemini and want to be in Singapore working with awesome people like @YiTayML and @quocleix, see below ⬇️”” / X https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1996644208854388983

Opera rolls out Gemini-powered AI features across its browsers – 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/opera-browsers-get-google-gemini-integration/

Our Gemini 3 Vibe Code hackathon started!, Build applications using the new Gemini 3 Pro model with a price pool of $500k. 🤯 > Top 50 winners receive $10,000 in Gemini API credits each. > Access Gemini 3 Pro Preview directly in Google AI Studio. > Leverage advanced reasoning”” / X https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1996990062836244732

Take an early look at how Google Gemini projects will work – Android Authority https://www.androidauthority.com/google-gemini-projects-2-3620950/

Today, we’re rolling out an updated Deep Think mode available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Here’s what you need to know: — Gemini 3 Deep Think mode pushes the boundaries of intelligence even further, delivering meaningful improvement in reasoning https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/1996657213390155927

Ultra users, ready to try Gemini 3 Deep Think mode? Here’s how: 1) Select ‘Deep Think’ in the prompt bar 2) Select ‘Thinking’ from the model drop down 3) Type your prompt & submit”” / X https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1996670867770953894

We’re hiring research scientists & student researchers at Google DeepMind. DM or email me if you’re interested! I’ll be at NeurIPS this week. Happy to chat in person!”” / X https://x.com/RuiqiGao/status/1995572419218796567

We’re pushing the boundaries of intelligence even further with Gemini 3 Deep Think. 🧠 This mode meaningfully improves reasoning capabilities by exploring many hypotheses simultaneously to solve problems. Here’s how it coded a simulated dominoes game from a single prompt ⬇️ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1996658401233842624

With state-of-the-art reasoning, richer visuals, and deeper interactivity, Gemini 3 is more intuitive, more powerful, and more personalized. Start exploring at https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1995534313044238347

👀Introducing a brand new @yupp_ai SVG leaderboard ranking frontier models on the generation of coherent and visually appealing SVGs! Gemini 3 Pro by @GoogleDeepMind takes the crown as the most powerful model! 👏 We’re also releasing a public SVG dataset. Details in🧵 https://x.com/lintool/status/1996696157985398812

Gemini 3 Deep Think mode is live for Ultra users today. When using parallel lines of thought in this mode, Gemini shows meaningful improvement on key reasoning benchmarks such as ARC-AGI-2 & HLE. I think you will be deeply impressed. https://x.com/NoamShazeer/status/1996679619031060680

Nano banana pro excels at fictional scenarios. “Give me the general assembly diagram for The Device (run with it)” “A photo of The Device, taken hastily by a secret agent” “A satellite photo of The Facility, taken by The Organization & plan” “Operational status report” https://x.com/emollick/status/1994432405273264378

@venturetwins Feels a bit underwhelming? Not sure but a lot of hype for something that has existed for months and with better results. Nano Banana for video is Aleph: https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1995559319962783919

Nano Banana Pro keeps getting more SOTA (support for 2K and 4K is available in the API!) 🍌 https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1996036187979678088

Editing video models (think nano banana for video) will cause a boom in faithful remasters of old classics. Suddenly you can afford decisions that used to be cost prohibitive. Maybe even tackle cult favorites that never had the fan base to justify the expense (Stargate SG-1 https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1995883669358006526

Nested Learning (NL) is @GoogleResearch’s fresh look at Continual Learning. It treats neural nets as stacked layers of memory. ▪️ Models turn into a bunch of smaller learners, each running on its own timescale (fast vs. slow) Here’s how this hierarchy of memories works: https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1994714278579073247

Today at #NeurIPS2025, we present Titans, a new architecture that combines the speed of RNNs with the performance of Transformers. It uses deep neural memory to learn in real-time, effectively scaling to contexts larger than 2 million tokens. More at: https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/1996674393842614338