The day in AI
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Launches and products
19 May 2026Google DeepMindGemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.5 Flash, launched at I/O 2026, beats 3.1 Pro on agentic benchmarks, with 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 1656 Elo on GDPval-AA and 83.6% on MCP Atlas.19 May 2026Google DeepMindGemini Omni (Omni Flash) Gemini Omni Flash makes video from mixed image, audio, video and text input and edits it conversationally; first of a planned family.19 May 2026Google DeepMindGemini Omni Flash Gemini Omni Flash takes text, images, audio and video in one prompt and outputs editable video, folding the Veo line into Gemini itself.19 May 2026Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.7-Max Proprietary Qwen flagship built for long-running agents, covering coding, office automation and autonomous execution over hundreds or thousands of steps.19 May 2026GoogleGoogle Antigravity 2.0 Antigravity 2.0 is a standalone desktop app with no IDE: dynamic subagents, asynchronous tasks, JSON hooks and scheduled agents.19 May 2026GoogleGemini Spark Gemini Spark is a 24/7 personal agent on Gemini 3.5 Flash that acts for you in the Gemini app, with trusted testers first, then a US Ultra beta.19 May 2026GoogleManaged Agents in the Gemini API (Antigravity Agent) Managed Agents in the Gemini API run stateful autonomous agents in Google-hosted Linux sandboxes; the Antigravity Agent is the first, in public preview.19 May 2026Google DeepMindFlow Music and Lyria 3 Pro At I/O 2026 Google Flow Music added Gemini Omni music videos and edits to specific song sections; Lyria 3 Pro, which writes songs up to 3 minutes with intro/verse/chorus structure, had launched on 2026-03-25.19 May 2026GoogleGemini for Science Gemini for Science bundles Labs prototypes built on Co-Scientist and AlphaEvolve for hypothesis generation and computational discovery.
People and teams
Andrej KarpathyEureka Labs → Anthropic. Joined the pretraining team to build a group that uses Claude to accelerate pretraining research; said the next few years at the LLM frontier will be especially formative.