Kevin Roose

If you're the average Gemini user and you're just trying to pass sixth grade for free, I think this model is going to be a lot of help.

But, you know, the sort of more vocal AI power user crowd, which are the people that you're going to find on social media sort of putting these models through their paces on day one, does seem to be a little disappointed here.

And I do think it's notable that a model that was sold to us yesterday largely on the strength of its low price does not actually seem to be as cheap as maybe we were told.

Yeah, I mean, I think the real test for Google, I mean, at least the next real test for Google will come next month when it puts out 3.5 Pro, which I think will sort of be at a similar class of the frontier models that we have today.

And that's when I'm going to sort of be putting the model through all of its paces and trying to figure out, okay, like what part of my daily workflows might this kind of thing slot into?

Casey, what is your verdict on IO?

It felt like a base hit to me.

You know, I think that if they ship everything that they showed off and it works basically as advertised, like I think that there is some good stuff in there.

I don't think that there was a single product that made me think if I can't use this like today, I will be in extreme physical distress.

But yeah, overall, I thought, you know, solid set of announcements.

What do you think?

I'm a longtime Google user.

I was part of the Gmail beta in 2004.

Wow, you're old.

So old.

Thank you.

It sounds like if there's any place where you feel maybe not quite at the very lead where you actually want to be, it is coding.

Is that right?

Is that where you're sort of putting the pressure?

3.5 Flash has been out for a day.