Inside Gemini and NotebookLM: How Google is Shipping Non-Stop | Josh Woodward

In this interview, Peter Yang interviews Josh Woodward, VP at Google Labs and Gemini app, about the culture of shipping inside Google and demos of new Gemini features like NanoBanana, NotebookLM, and Flow. Josh shares insights on the viral NanoBanana project, its unexpected user creativity, and the potential for future iterations with Veo. They explore NotebookLM's evolution into a knowledge curation tool, highlighting video overviews and featured notebooks from sources like The Economist. The conversation shifts to Flow, a video creation tool born from a collaboration with Google DeepMind, emphasizing its remixability and user control. Josh discusses the importance of small, agile teams, rapid prototyping, and co-creation with users from various industries to maintain a startup culture within Google. He also touches on the future of Gemini as a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant, integrating user data for personalized advice and proactive task management.