Grab a refreshing slice of cold watermelon (because it’s summer in Tokyo and I love it!), and let me tell you a story about how a small team of us turned a wild idea into a living, breathing web game.

If you’ve spent any time in Google I/O over the last few years, you might remember Adventure—the virtual conference technology that powered major Google events during the pandemic. It was vast, beautifully illustrated, and collaborative. But it was also heavy, transient, and required an army of human moderators.

When catching up on Google’s AI news, you hear Gemini, and then you hear Gemma. The names are so similar-like twin siblings-that it’s easy to scratch your head and wonder, “What exactly is the difference?”

Technically speaking, Gemini is a family of multimodal generative AI models and intelligent assistants developed by Google DeepMind, while Gemma is a collection of lightweight open models built from the same technology that powers our Gemini models… but wait!

Threading the Beads: Coding in the Era of AI

“Even a bushel of beads isn’t a treasure until they are threaded.” (Korean Proverb)

Whenever I use Gemini to create something, this old proverb comes to mind.

Today, Gemini pours out an endless stream of “beads”—the code. In the past, each bead was a precious thing I had to carve by hand, but now they are so abundant they roll around under my feet.