Wondering what all the fuss is about Gemini, Google's next-gen generative AI model family? Here's a handy roundup to get you up to speed.

Google also announced a new developer tool called Jules, a coding assistant powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash. Jules sits within GitHub and can write code, fix bugs, and create and execute multi-step plans. Jules is available to a limited pool of testers today. Google expects expanded availability in early 2025.

Google is also investing in video games and AI in another way: creating playable virtual worlds on the fly from a prompt image using a “foundation world model” called Genie 2 that it showed off last week. That work seems early, too: Genie 2 can only generate consistent worlds for “up to a minute,” Google says.