In the Gemini era, we are shipping our most intelligent models faster than ever, with over a dozen announcements and 20 major AI products released since the last I/O.

The general sentiment at I/O is incredibly positive, reflecting a significant amount of progress across Google's models and products.

Over 7 million developers have built with the Gemini API, reflecting over 5x growth since last I/O, and Gemini usage on Vertex AI has increased more than 40 times since last year.

It's so awesome to meet developers from around the world and share the latest from Google DeepMind, especially seeing the excitement in the Gemini community, which is vibrant right now with many developers building with our models and asking for more features.

I was really excited about the developer keynote at Google I/O, where we discussed how we're enabling multimodal capabilities, like taking images to code and using AI to help with rapid coding and idea exploration.

Generative media models are impressive, but my attention is mainly on Gemini because of its potential for significant breakthroughs in AI.

The Gemini Developer API introduced many new features, including thought summaries directly in the API, native audio output for better voice control, and a URL context tool that allows models to analyze web links, enhancing the building blocks for new capabilities.

I was often left out of news articles about Y Combinator, which can be frustrating, but people within YC know my contributions.

The AI model Gemini is impressive, but its capabilities are often obscured by a frustrating user interface that doesn't maximize its potential.