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Ep 785: What’s new in Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Omni and Antigravity 2.0: Hands On With the latest from Google I/O

This episode of Everyday AI breaks down three major AI announcements from Google's I/O conference, offering hands-on demonstrations and critical analysis of their real-world utility. The hosts navigate the confusion surrounding Google's numerous updates to identify which tools are genuinely useful today.
The podcast focuses on three key Google I/O updates: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google Omni, and Antigravity 2.0. Gemini 3.5 Flash is presented as Google's most powerful but expensive model, outperforming its predecessor on benchmarks but being less cost-efficient due to token usage. Google Omni is highlighted as an underappreciated multimodal world model that can generate and edit video from various inputs, showing strong character consistency. Antigravity 2.0, an agentic desktop app, is tested but found lacking compared to competitors like Claude Code and Codex, with poor usage limits and a lack of direct Google product integrations. The hosts also explore new Gemini features like Canvas mode for interactive web app creation and a transparent chain-of-thought reasoning display. Overall, the episode provides a practical, critical review of these tools, noting that while Google's AI advancements are significant, some features are not yet ready for prime time or are too costly for everyday use.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash is now Google's best but expensive model.
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Many features depend on account tiers and settings.
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Antigravity 2.0 has poor usage limits
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Confusion over missing Google integrations
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Antigravity 2.0 creates an interactive web app from the Start Here series.
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Pre-AI, that would have been 30 hours of work.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on benchmarks but is more expensive
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is not cheap but expensive.
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Gemini Omni Flash outputs editable video.
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Google's advantage in multimodal AI
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Limits showed 100% remaining after being exhausted.
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Gemini's jokes still aren't genuinely funny.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is coherent and accurate.
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A basketball-themed video explains LLMs in 10 seconds.
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Google Omni is often misjudged as a text-to-video tool, which it is not.
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Antigravity 2.0 lacks compared to Claude Code and Codex