Innovation

Introducing Nano Banana 2, our best image model yet 🍌🍌 It uses Gemini’s understanding of the world and is powered by real-time information and images from web search. That means it can better reflect real-world conditions in high-fidelity. Check out "Window Seat," a demo using Nano Banana 2’s world understanding to generate more accurate views from any window in the world, pulling live local weather info with 2K/4K specs. The precision is mind blowing. Rolling out today as the new default in the @Geminiapp, Search (across 141 countries), and Flow + available in preview via @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI. Also available in Google @Antigravity.

I meet a lot of founders who are worried by the rapid rate of technological change. They shouldn't be. It may feel uncomfortable, but techno-turbulence is net good for startups. They're much more likely to adapt successfully to some big change than incumbents are.

Radiant CEO @DougBernauer on the lessons he learned working at SpaceX and The Boring Company, and reporting directly to Elon Musk: "I would just go and talk to whoever I needed. I'd cross every line possible. I didn't use the right channels of communication. I just pulled all the assets - I'm building a thing, and I'm ignoring everything else. That's still how I operate." "I loved it. It's why I stayed 12 years. It's the coolest mission - make life multi planetary. I left to make a reactor company to make power for that mission still." "I made the first Falcon 9 ground system. Then I made the first two rockets. I traveled around the country testing the first two Falcon 9's that flew. Then I did the first ever rocket with legs." "That was reporting directly to Elon with three other people. We'd go to his desk, and tell him what we were doing. We got so lucky - every time we came to him, we were pretty much like, 'The qual tank passed and it worked, and the schedule's good.' So, he loved it." "Then I was doing The Boring Company and Hyperloop - basically every Elon side project."

The one skill everyone who uses AI needs to master in 2026 Meta-prompting: using an LLM to generate, refine, and improve the very prompts you use to get work done. https://garryslist.org/posts/metaprompti…

.@InviscidAI simulates how air, heat, and energy flow in real time. This lets facility operators cut energy costs by up to 30% and shrink design timelines from weeks to hours, across data centers, cold storage facilities, and commercial buildings. Congrats on the launch, @kabearj and @ziiiiiiiiiiming! https://ycombinator.com/launches/PYD-inv…

the truth is no matter how hard you try you’ll never be able to keep up with 100% of what’s going on in AI right now there’s just too much action right now

In November, we outlined our approach to deprecating and preserving older Claude models. We noted we were exploring keeping certain models available to the public post-retirement, and giving past models a way to pursue their interests. With Claude Opus 3, we’re doing both.

If you thought your company's edge was "how fast you ship", you're in for a rude awakening. Everyone can ship fast now. Obviously, not everyone can ship tastefully, with quality and restraint in mind. That's the new edge.

Say hello to Nano Banana 2, our best image generation and editing model! 🍌 You can access Nano Banana 2 through AI Studio and the Gemini API under the name Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. We are also introducing new resolutions (lower cost) and tools like Image Search!

"I can imagine the jobs eliminated. I'm not imaginative enough to think of all the jobs that will be newly created. I see a net decline in jobs." @HowardMarksBook says AI is innovating faster than society can adjust, and even if we could adapt, we'll see a significant period of job market dislocation. "There are people who say, 'I have great news, people aren't going to have to work.' To me that's terrible news. We get a great deal from our work other than a paycheck. How are those elements of life going to be replaced?"

For the foreseeable future, everything about starting a startup, both good and bad, will be accentuated. It will be even harder to figure out what to do, but the founders who get it right will be able to create amazing things even faster than they could before.

We shipped Claude Code as a research preview a year ago today. Developers have used it to build weekend projects, ship production apps, write code at the world's largest companies, and help plan a Mars rover drive. We built it, and you showed us what it was for.

.@GenAstronautics builds autonomous robotics for space. In microgravity, proteins crystallize without defects and semiconductors form without flaws, but astronaut time is scarce. They are enabling scale for the work that can't be done anywhere else. Congrats on the launch, @BramSchork and @ShiboZhou! https://ycombinator.com/launches/PY8-gen…

Anthropic has acquired @Vercept_ai to advance Claude’s computer use capabilities. Read more: https://anthropic.com/news/acquires-verc…

We’re launching Nano Banana 2, built on the latest Gemini Flash model. 🍌 It’s state-of-the-art for creating and editing images, combining Pro-level capabilities with lightning-fast speed. 🧵

Ben Horowitz on the infrastructure behind the AI economy: "Crypto is the natural money for AI because it’s internet-native money." "AI is global. Crypto is global." "There needs to be not just a ledger of money, but probably a ledger of truth for AI to really fulfill its potential." "I think people are probably underestimating how crypto and AI work together to form the AI economy." "Networks and computers tend to grow together, and I think that AI is obviously a new kind of computer and crypto is a new kind of network." @bhorowitz on Moonshots with @PeterDiamandis

More than a billion images generated later, we love seeing what you create with Nano Banana. Today, we’re inviting more people to join in on the fun with the launch of 🍌Nano Banana 2🍌 This state-of-the-art model is exceptionally good at things like: — Creating images that tap into the Gemini model’s real-world knowledge base + are powered by information and images from web search to more accurately render specific landmarks, locations, objects, and beyond — Adapting creative assets for global markets with regionally relevant localization — Dynamically editing aspect ratios and upscaling to 2k and 4k resolutions — Generating multiple cohesive images that fit together in one world, story, or concept

New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or http://claude.ai/code

let me tell you something my friend this is not the time to cancel subscriptions this is not the time to play it safe this is not the time to "wait and see" right now is the time to go fucking ALL IN >max out your Claude credits >burn through your $200 ChatGPT plan >spend all your tokens and top up AGAIN it's time to experiment, to build and PRINT a shit ton of money

Great meeting with PM @narendramodi today to talk about the incredible energy around AI in India. India is our fastest growing market for codex globally, up 4x in weekly users in the past 2 weeks alone. 🇮🇳!