Andy Halliday
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And then I expect that Gemini 3 will displace it, but it's not clear.
I, like Brian, have been a big fan of Gemini and its role as an assistant, especially in the vibe coding environment, Gemini 2.5 Pro.
And apparently Gemini 3 is far surpassing Gemini 2.5 Pro's
Anne, it was you.
If I had not gone into Gemini 3 at that moment, then Brian would have been able to.
Yeah.
But most people using 11 Labs would be using the API, I would think.
They wouldn't be using the UI to do something like that.
Yeah, so weaving off of this whole discussion about user experience design, how that impacts adoption and utilization.
Google is going to be, you know, with the release of Gemini 3, is going to have all the press about that.
But meanwhile, behind the scenes, Google is continuing to progress the integration of AI into a wide range of services.
and making it really easy for you to adopt them.
And so specifically in this past week, they've rolled out new travel planning features in search, which includes a canvas that emerges for custom itinerary development.
You can work in the canvas to change your itinerary.
It has a flight deals tool.
I often, you know, instead of going to kayak.com or Expedia or whatever, when I'm doing travel planning, I just go to Google flights and I start there, right?
Well, now they're fleshing this out more completely to cover the full range of application functionality that you need for travel planning, including a deals tool and importantly, agentic booking.
So along with this agentic booking release within the flight planning and travel planning features, they also have just launched, in time for the 2025 holiday season, AI-powered shopping.
OK, and that's it's built.
Gemini is now built into the searches AI mode and the Gemini application.