Gemini Release Notes

1. Document understanding

Real-world documents are messy, unstructured, and difficult to parse — often filled with interleaved images, illegible handwritten text, nested tables, complex mathematical notation and non-linear layouts. Gemini 3 Pro represents a major leap forward in this domain, excelling across the entire document processing pipeline — from highly accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to complex visual reasoning.

Intelligent perception

To truly understand a document, a model must accurately detect and recognize text, tables, math formulas, figures and charts regardless of noise or format.

A fundamental capability is "derendering" — the ability to reverse-engineer a visual document back into structured code (HTML, LaTeX, Markdown) that would recreate it. As illustrated below, Gemini 3 demonstrates accurate perception across diverse modalities including converting an 18th-century merchant log into a complex table, or transforming a raw image with mathematical annotation into precise LaTeX code.

Sophisticated reasoning

Users can rely on Gemini 3 to perform complex, multi-step reasoning across tables and charts — even in long reports. In fact, the model notably outperforms the human baseline on the CharXiv Reasoning benchmark (80.5%).

To illustrate this, imagine a user analyzing the 62-page U.S. Census Bureau "Income in the United States: 2022" report with the following prompt: “Compare the 2021–2022 percent change in the Gini index for "Money Income" versus "Post-Tax Income", and what caused the divergence in the post-tax measure, and in terms of "Money Income", does it show the lowest quintile's share rising or falling?”

Swipe through the images below to see the model's step-by-step reasoning.

2. Spatial understanding

Gemini 3 Pro is our strongest spatial understanding model so far. Combined with its strong reasoning, this enables the model to make sense of the physical world.

• Pointing capability: Gemini 3 has the ability to point at specific locations in images by outputting pixel-precise coordinates. Sequences of 2D points can be strung together to perform complex tasks, such as estimating human poses or reflecting trajectories over time.
• Open vocabulary references: Gemini 3 identifies objects and their intent using an open vocabulary. The most direct application is robotics: the user can ask a robot to generate spatially grounded plans like, “Given this messy table, come up with a plan on how to sort the trash.” This also extends to AR/XR devices, where the user can request an AI assistant to “Point to the screw according to the user manual.”

3. Screen understanding

Gemini 3.0 Pro’s spatial understanding really shines through its screen understanding of desktop and mobile OS screens. This reliability helps make computer use agents robust enough to automate repetitive tasks. UI understanding capabilities can also enable tasks like QA testing, user onboarding and UX analytics. The following computer use demo shows the model perceiving and clicking with high precision.

Task: Summarize the total revenue for each promotion type in a new sheet (Sheet2) with the promotion names as the column headers using the Pivot Table feature.

4. Video understanding

Gemini 3 Pro takes a massive leap forward in how AI understands video, the most complex data format we interact with. It is dense, dynamic, multimodal and rich with context.

1. High frame rate understanding: We have optimized the model to be much stronger at understanding fast-paced actions when sampling at >1 frames-per-second. Gemini 3 Pro can capture rapid details — vital for tasks like analyzing golf swing mechanics.

By processing video at 10 FPS—10x the default speed—Gemini 3 Pro catches every swing and shift in weight, unlocking deep insights into player mechanics.

1. Video reasoning with “thinking” mode: We upgraded "thinking" mode to go beyond object recognition toward true video reasoning. The model can now better trace complex cause-and-effect relationships over time. Instead of just identifying what is happening, it understands why it is happening.

2. Turning long videos into action: Gemini 3 Pro bridges the gap between video and code. It can extract knowledge from long-form content and immediately translate it into functioning apps or structured code.

5. Real-world applications

Here are a few ways we think various fields will benefit from Gemini 3’s capabilities.

Education

Gemini 3.0 Pro’s enhanced vision capabilities drive significant gains in the education field, particularly for diagram-heavy questions central to math and science. It successfully tackles the full spectrum of multimodal reasoning problems found from middle school through post-secondary curriculums. This includes visual reasoning puzzles (like Math Kangaroo) and complex chemistry and physics diagrams.

Gemini 3’s visual intelligence also powers the generative capabilities of Nano Banana Pro. By combining advanced reasoning with precise generation, the model, for example, can help users identify exactly where they went wrong in a homework problem.

Medical and biomedical imaging

Gemini 3 Pro stands as our most capable general model for medical and biomedical imagery understanding, achieving state-of-the-art performance across major public benchmarks in MedXpertQA-MM (a difficult expert-level medical reasoning exam), VQA-RAD (radiology imagery Q&A) and MicroVQA (multimodal reasoning benchmarks for microscopy based biological research).

Law and finance

Gemini 3 Pro’s enhanced document understanding helps professionals in finance and law tackle highly complex workflows. Finance platforms can seamlessly analyze dense reports filled with charts and tables, while legal platforms benefit from the model's sophisticated document reasoning.

“We’re impressed by Gemini 3's improvements in advanced legal reasoning, especially its ability to understand and edit contracts with complex redlines. This has been particularly valuable for our in-house customers due to the high volume and variability of the legal contracts they handle.”

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6. Media resolution control

Gemini 3 Pro improves the way it processes visual inputs by preserving the native aspect ratio of images. This drives significant quality improvements across the board.

Additionally, developers gain granular control over performance and cost via the new media_resolution parameter. This allows you to tune visual token usage to balance fidelity against consumption:

• High resolution: Maximizes fidelity for tasks requiring fine detail, such as dense OCR or complex document understanding.
• Low resolution: Optimizes for cost and latency on simpler tasks, such as general scene recognition or long-context tasks.

For specific recommendations, refer to our Gemini 3.0 Documentation Guide.

Build with Gemini 3 Pro

We are excited to see what you build with these new capabilities. To get started, check out our developer documentation or play with the model in Google AI Studio today.

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Learn anything

• Break down technical scientific topics with coded visualizations
  Gemini 3 is state-of-the-art on multimodal understanding and has a 1 million-token context window. So it can take any kind of input you give it — from text to video to code and beyond — and help you learn in ways that make sense for you, like with an interactive guide based on a dense research paper.

• Get presentation coaching tailored to you
  With just a recording of your practice presentation and your slides, Gemini 3 can act as your presentation coach. The model uses advanced reasoning to not only understand and evaluate your performance, but also applies its in-depth knowledge to offer constructive and actionable advice.

• Dive deep into a scientific concept
  AI Mode in Search now uses Gemini 3’s reasoning power, multimodal understanding and generative UI capabilities to dynamically create the ideal layout for your questions. When the model detects that an interactive tool will help you better understand the topic, it codes a custom simulation or tool in real-time and adds it into your response. That way it can show you what RNA does instead of just telling you, plus you’ll see links to keep exploring content from across the web.

• Learn with detailed infographics
  Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) uses Gemini 3’s state-of-the-art reasoning and real-world knowledge to visualize information better than ever before and help you learn about new subjects. You can ask it to create content like infographics for anything from the weather in a specific city, to how to make Elaichi Chai, to the care and keeping of your latest house plant.

• Make strides in your hobby
  With Gemini 3’s massive long-context window; state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities; and vision and spatial understanding, you can upload a video of yourself playing a sport for up to an hour and receive coach-level advice. Gemini 3 will identify that you’re the player, filter out noise and offer a detailed visual analysis, complete with information like form evaluation and suggested drills.

• Generate custom interfaces to explore different concepts
  Gemini 3’s reasoning and multimodal capabilities have enabled generative interfaces like dynamic view, a new experiment in the Gemini app. Dynamic view uses the model’s agentic coding capabilities to design and code a custom user interface in real-time, perfectly suited to your prompt. For example, ask Gemini to “explain the Van Gogh Gallery with life context for each piece,” and you'll receive a stunning, interactive response that lets you tap, scroll and learn in ways static text can’t.

• Evoke complex scientific topics with art
  It can be tough to wrap your mind around something like, say, nuclear fusion. But Gemini 3 can deeply comprehend this kind of nuanced scientific topic, then express that understanding creatively through both code and poetry simultaneously.

Build anything

• Vibe code rich, interactive web UI
  Gemini 3 is exceptional at zero-shot generation. It handles the heavy lifting of multi-step planning and coding details, allowing you to focus on the creative vision. With natural language, describe what you have in mind, like a website to promote a retro dance night. The model’s significantly improved complex instruction following and deep tool use can translate your high-level idea into an interactive landing page with a single prompt.

• Make a static image interactive
  Thanks to Gemini 3, a static image can become a board game, a napkin sketch can turn into a full website and a diagram can take on new life through an interactive lesson. The model’s deep multimodal understanding can interpret when the content of an image might be most compelling in an interactive format, then translate it to be functional.

• Illustrate massive differences in scale
  You know a sub-atomic particle is tiny, and the galaxy is huge. But with Gemini 3, you can build a way to see those differences in size. The model excels at coding because of its ability to synthesize disparate pieces of information and follow complex, creative instructions. It also understands the intent behind your idea, allowing you to go from a rough concept to a functional starting point in a single step.

• Generate code that works IRL
  With our new agentic development platform Google Antigravity, you can build faster and manage intelligent agents that operate across the editor, terminal and browser. Antigravity uses Gemini 3’s advanced reasoning, tool use and agentic coding capabilities to act as your partner, generating code complex enough to work in the real world — like in the case of the classic cartpole problem.

Plan anything

• Create a custom trip itinerary
  Visual layout is another experimental generative interface experience in the Gemini app. It moves beyond text with an immersive, magazine-style view featuring photos and modules that you can interact with to further customize your response. For instance, ask it to “plan a 3-day trip to Rome,” and you get an explorable itinerary tailored to your preferences.

• Get help with what’s important to you
  Gemini 3’s generative UI capabilities in Search can also help build tools for your more practical questions. Now, AI Mode can make you a custom-built interactive loan calculator to compare two different options and see which offers the most long-term savings, and gives you the ability to change and customize the inputs to help you get even more insights.

• Achieve inbox zero
  Gemini Agent is an experimental feature that handles multi-step tasks directly inside the Gemini app, and it can help with things like triaging your emails. Built on insights from Project Mariner and using Gemini 3’s advanced reasoning, Gemini breaks down complex requests using tools like Deep Research; Canvas; your Google Workspace connected apps like Gmail and Calendar; and live web browsing. When using it, you remain in control: Gemini is designed to seek confirmation before critical actions, and you can take over anytime.

• Make the most of your weekends
  With Gemini 3 in Search, you can ask even more complicated questions and get richer, more visual and helpful responses in AI Mode. Let’s say you have very specific conditions in mind for catching some waves — put those guidelines into AI Mode. Gemini 3 once again uses its multimodal understanding and agentic coding to generate the most helpful layout on the fly, even building visual elements like images, tables and grids to help you choose. Surf’s up!

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Google Antigravity rate limits update

Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now have higher rate limits for Google Antigravity.

The response to Google Antigravity — our new agentic development platform — has been incredible and we’re working to meet this demand. One way we’re doing this is by offering enhanced support for Google AI subscribers.

Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now receive priority access, featuring our highest, most generous rate limits with quotas that refresh every five hours.

For users on the free plan, we’ve shifted to a larger, weekly based rate limit to minimize hitting rate limits quickly during a project. Remember, usage is correlated with the "work done" by the agent; straightforward tasks consume less quota than complex reasoning.

Regardless of your tier, all users will continue to enjoy Gemini 3 Pro, unlimited tab code completions and access to all product features, such as the Agent Manager and Browser integration.

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November AI updates recap

Here’s a recap of some of our biggest AI updates from November, including the launch of Gemini 3, debut of Nano Banana Pro and major new investments in AI infrastructure.

For more than 20 years, we’ve invested in machine learning and AI research, tools and infrastructure to build products that make everyday life better for more people. Teams across Google are working on ways to unlock AI’s benefits in fields as wide-ranging as healthcare, crisis response and education. To keep you posted on our progress, we're doing a regular roundup of Google's most recent AI news.

Here’s a look back at some of our AI announcements from November.

November ushered in a new era of intelligence: with the launch of Gemini 3, we're improving everyone's ability to learn, plan or just get things done.

From "vibe coding" with our powerful models, to generating professional grade visuals with Nano Banana Pro, to the autonomous workflows in our new Google Antigravity platform, the distance between a spark of imagination and reality has never been shorter. So, whether you’re a developer building complex agents or a traveler planning for the upcoming holidays with Canvas in AI Mode, these updates turn AI into a proactive partner ready to help you get things done, all season long.

Gemini 3

We released Gemini 3, AI for a new era of intelligence. Gemini 3 is built to bring any idea to life. It represents the next step in our work to push the frontiers of intelligence, agentic experiences and personalization — so that AI is truly helpful for everyone. Gemini 3 is the best model in the world for multimodal understanding and it's our most powerful agentic and vibe coding model to date. For developers, Gemini 3 Pro outperforms previous versions across major AI benchmarks. Gemini 3’s upgraded smarts and new capabilities are now available in the Gemini app, and you can review our hub with all the Gemini 3 announcements.

We made Gemini 3 available in Google Search for our most intelligent search yet. Gemini 3’s state-of-the-art reasoning is now available in Google Search, starting with AI Mode — marking the first time we brought a Gemini model to Search on day one. Gemini 3 grasps depth and nuance, and unlocks new experiences in Search with dynamic visual layouts, interactive tools and simulations tailored specifically for your query. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in nearly 120 countries and territories in English can use Gemini 3 Pro by selecting “Thinking with 3 Pro” from the model drop-down menu in AI Mode.

Nano Banana Pro

We unveiled Nano Banana Pro, built on Gemini 3. Nano Banana Pro, our newest image generation and editing model, is built on Gemini 3 and moves beyond spontaneous art into an era of high-fidelity, studio-quality visuals. You now have the choice between the original Nano Banana for fun, fast editing, or Pro for an even more powerful creative partner capable of handling complex tasks demanding the highest quality. To help get you started, we shared seven tips to get the most out of Nano Banana Pro.

Google Antigravity

We introduced Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform. Antigravity is a platform designed to give developers an AI-powered coding experience that goes beyond simple editing. It delivers a new agent-first interface for deploying agents that autonomously plan, execute and verify complex tasks. Our vision for Antigravity is to enable anyone with an idea to experience liftoff and build that idea into reality. You can try Antigravity available for yourself today in public preview.

Google Maps with Gemini

We announced that Google Maps is getting smarter with Gemini. With the help of Gemini, you will soon have the first, hands-free, conversational driving experience in Google Maps that allows you to find places, report traffic, ask for suggestions along your route and more using just your voice. Plus, new landmark-based navigation will give you clear directions, so in addition to hearing “turn right in 500 feet,” you’ll also get directions based on helpful landmarks like “turn right after the Thai Siam Restaurant.” Landmark-based navigation is rolling out now on Android and iOS in the U.S, and Gemini in navigation on Google Maps is rolling out everywhere Gemini is available.

Gemini in Android Auto

We announced that Gemini has started rolling out in Android Auto. Android Auto is already available in over 250 million cars on the road, and Gemini is now coming along for the ride to make life on the road even better. You’ll be able to use natural language to add stops, send messages, access emails, create playlists and even brainstorm ideas while driving. Just make sure you have the Gemini app on your phone and look for the tooltip on your car display.

SIMA 2

We introduced SIMA 2, a significant step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). SIMA 2 is a major milestone in our work to create general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of Gemini into SIMA 2, the model is evolving from an instruction-follower into an interactive gaming companion. Now, SIMA 2 can follow human-language instructions in virtual worlds and also think about its goals, converse with users and improve itself over time, marking an important step in the direction of robotics and AI-embodiment in general.

WeatherNext 2

We released WeatherNext 2: our most advanced weather forecasting model. WeatherNext 2 can generate forecasts 8x faster and with resolution up to 1-hour, and we’re already using this breakthrough technology to support weather agencies in making decisions.

AlphaFold anniversary

We marked the 5-year anniversary of AlphaFold cracking the protein folding problem, and spotlighted its ongoing impact. Five years ago AlphaFold 2 solved the protein structure prediction problem. The profound scientific and societal value of this work was recognized in 2024 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In November, we looked back at how AlphaFold has unlocked new avenues of biological research and provided our first major proof point that AI can be a powerful tool to advance science.

AI in Search planning

We announced new ways to plan travel with AI in Search. Our new AI features in Search help you build the perfect itinerary, from snagging a great deal to turning your plans into actual bookings. To get started with planning, try the Canvas tool in AI Mode: Describe the kind of trip you want and what recommendations you need. Then hit "Create Canvas," and watch your custom travel plan come together.

AI shopping in Search and Gemini

We added new AI shopping features in Search and Gemini to help with the holidays. Our biggest upgrade to shopping means you can now use conversational AI and agentic AI to take the hard work out of your holiday shopping. Using AI Mode in Search to shop, you can now describe what you’re looking for and get an intelligently organized response that brings together rich visuals, price, reviews, inventory info, and more. Plus, new AI agents can now call stores to check stock and use agentic checkout to buy items automatically from eligible merchants when the price is right.

AI learning and education commitments

We announced new commitments to AI learning and education. At our AI for Learning Forum in London, we announced $30 million in new funding for learning. The event brought together experts in education and technology and continued our recent work to develop AI in a way that improves learning outcomes. We also released popular new features to help with daily studying, including the ability to create flashcards and quizzes right in the NotebookLM app.

Gemini Live tips

We shared essential tips for using Gemini Live. Gemini Live’s latest updates allow you to have more natural, two-way conversations with AI. Our tips show how to make the most of these updates by tailoring your learning, especially for complex subjects. You can now adjust Gemini's speech speed to learn at your own pace and improve accessibility. You can also practice a new language, rehearse for a job interview or even liven your conversation up with a fun accent.

$40 billion investment in Texas for AI and cloud infrastructure

We announced a new $40 billion investment in Texas for AI and cloud infrastructure. CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai and Texas Governor Greg Abbott made the announcement at an event in Midlothian, TX. This latest announcement represented the capstone of our 2025 push to make AI investments that unlock economic opportunity, advance scientific breakthroughs and create opportunities that benefit everyone. It includes major investments across America, as well as Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region — alongside a critical US workforce initiative to train 100,000 electrical workers and create 30,000 new apprentices.

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Today, we’re rolling out Gemini 3 Deep Think mode to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app. This new mode delivers a meaningful improvement in reasoning capabilities, designed to tackle complex math, science and logic problems that challenge even the most advanced state-of-the-art models.

Gemini 3 Deep Think is industry leading on rigorous benchmarks like Humanity’s Last Exam (41.0% without the use of tools) and ARC-AGI-2 (an unprecedented 45.1% with code execution). This is because it uses advanced parallel reasoning to explore multiple hypotheses simultaneously — building on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think variants that recently achieved a gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad and at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals.

Ultra subscribers can try Gemini 3 Deep Think mode today by selecting “Deep Think” in the prompt bar and Gemini 3 Pro in the model dropdown.

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Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro in Search are coming to more countries around the world.

We're bringing our most intelligent model, Gemini 3, to AI Mode in Google Search in nearly 120 countries and territories in English.

Starting today, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can begin using Gemini 3 Pro by tapping “Thinking with 3 Pro” in the model drop-down in AI Mode. Thanks to Gemini 3’s state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities, AI Mode can grasp the nuance of your most complex queries. And Gemini 3’s unparalleled multimodal understanding and powerful agentic coding capabilities are unlocking new generative user interfaces – so you can get dynamic visual layouts, interactive tools and custom simulations — all generated on the fly, specifically for your query.

We're also bringing our latest generative imagery model, Nano Banana Pro, to AI Mode in more countries in English, starting today with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Built on Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini’s advanced reasoning and connects to Search's vast knowledge base to help you visualize infographics and more.

With this expansion, it's now easier to ask anything and instantly get a richer, more helpful understanding.

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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast-approaching, you can rely on our latest AI shopping features to get your holiday shopping done with less hassle and more fun. Here are four ways to use our newest features while you hunt for gifts over the busy weekend:

Four ways to use our newest features while you hunt for gifts over the busy weekend

• Track prices so you never miss a deal
  Don't spend your holiday weekend scouring online stores waiting for a price drop. When you’re looking at products on Google, just tap “track price” on an item you’re interested in, specify the details of what you want (like color and size) and we’ll send you a notification when the price falls into your budget from any store. And with eligible merchants in the U.S., you can then use our new agentic checkout feature to have Google securely complete the purchase for you on the merchant’s site using Google Pay.

If you don’t feel like waiting for a price drop, use price insights to gut-check deals you see. Just click on a product on Google to see prices from across the web, as well as whether a given price is high, low or typical based on pricing over the past three months.

• Ask AI to shop for the hardest person on your list
  We all have those people who are impossible to shop for. Instead of guessing, take advantage of our recent shopping updates in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app and try describing their vibe, interests or needs. So for your mom who lives in Colorado, you might ask AI Mode to "find me skin care products for dry Colorado winters." You’ll get intelligently organized responses that include product recs, rich visuals and all the shopping details you need — like reviews, promos and inventory data — to find something just right. And with more than 50 billion constantly refreshed listings in Google’s Shopping Graph, you can trust you’re seeing the best gift options out there.

• Use agentic AI to find items locally — without the hassle
  Two-thirds of U.S. holiday shoppers say they’ll confirm online that an item is in stock before going to buy it1 — but what about small businesses that don’t show their inventory online? Instead of spending all afternoon calling around, just search for the item you’re looking for “near me” on Search (starting with certain categories like toys, health and beauty and electronics) and look for “Let Google call.” With the help of Gemini, we’ll ask you a few questions about the product you’re looking for, call nearby stores that may have the item and then text or email you the details — so you can save time while still shopping small.

• Try on holiday outfit ideas virtually before you buy
  Finding the perfect holiday look can mean endless hours spent in dressing rooms. Skip all that and use virtual try on to explore your festive ‘fits instead. You can see how clothes from billions of product listings look on you just by snapping a photo of yourself. Virtual try on is available for a wide range of clothing types on Google from holiday dresses to cozy sweaters — and even shoes. Need a second opinion? Just tap to share options with friends or family.

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Gemini Drops

Gemini Drops are our regular update on what’s new in the Gemini app. Here's a look at the latest features this month:

• Gemini 3 brings upgraded smarts and new capabilities to the Gemini app: sharper reasoning, a leap in "vibe coding" capabilities, a new look and an experimental agent.
• You can now blend images, design posters and build diagrams with Nano Banana Pro. Then, easily resize your creations for any platform.
• Use Veo 3.1 to generate video with multiple reference images for precise control over characters, objects, style and scene.
• The new Gemini Agent handles the busywork — from calendars to car rentals — so you can focus on what matters.
• Switch between languages, ask Gemini Live to talk in a specific speed or tone, or even have it act out things in character.
• We’re also extending our free year of Google AI Pro to U.S. college students, ensuring they have access to the best of Google AI, including Gemini 3.

Find out even more on the Gemini Drops Hub.

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Stay organized while you plan

• 1. Make a holiday party planner Gem in Gemini
     A Gem is a custom expert you can make for any task within the Gemini app (where our latest Gemini model, Gemini 3 Pro, is rolling out globally). You can give your Gem unique context and revisit your AI expert as you plan. Try instructions like, “You’re an experienced party planner who can help me host a creative holiday dinner for 10 of my closest friends.” Then you can ask for help with punny menu names, invitation wording, themed playlists or icebreakers and more. Each time, the Gem will use that earlier context to inform its response. You can even ask Gemini to help you with instructions for your Gem and share your Gem with other people — perfect if you’re co-hosting!
• 1. Chat with Gemini Live on the go
     If you find yourself wondering about decoration DIYs when you’re at the craft store, you don’t have to tap at your screen — just open up Gemini Live in the Gemini app to brainstorm together. Thanks to its camera and screen sharing capabilities, you can have a back-and-forth conversation with Gemini Live about anything you see, and Gemini Live can offer visual guidance as it responds. You can even interrupt if you want to add more details or change the topic.
• 1. Use Nano Banana Pro for creative pics
     Nano Banana Pro, our latest image generation and editing model, can help you put a funny, personal touch on your gathering. Use it in the Gemini app or AI Mode in Search to prep invitation materials, like a photo showing you inside a snowglobe, or put your pet in a festive outfit for party reminders.

  Nano Banana Pro can help you (and your guests) get in the holiday party spirit with visuals for party invitations and reminders with a prompt like “Create a claymation scene showing a dog dressed up like an elf in a winter wonderland.”

• 1. Dream up decor ideas with Mixboard
     Mixboard is an AI experiment from Google Labs that helps you visualize and explore your ideas. Let’s say you want to make a holiday-themed tablescape but aren’t sure what it should look like — Mixboard can help you expand and refine the different possibilities using both images and text.
• 1. Reference planning info with Pixel Screenshots
     Use Pixel Screenshots on Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 to quickly and easily search your screenshots and find the info you need. You can even create collections of screenshots for easier party planning. So if you’re hosting a get-together, create a collection for that event and save helpful screenshots of recipes, DIY ideas and texts from people you’ve invited. Then, you’ll be able to search things like “ingredients,” “craft supplies” or “arriving late” and find the relevant information from the respective screenshots.
• 1. Research ideas with Gemini in Chrome
     Gemini in Chrome has tons of features to make party planning easier. It can work across multiple tabs to consolidate information, like which of the recipes you’re considering are gluten-free. It can also help you quickly find webpages you previously visited, so you don’t have to go digging for inspiration you stumbled upon. And it works with your favorite Google apps without changing tabs, making it easier to do things like create events in your Calendar without leaving the page.
• 1. Use Search to shop for decor and party favors
     A big shopping upgrade to Search means you can shop more conversationally — tell AI Mode what decorations or favors you’re looking for as you would to a friend. When you know what you want, you can use agentic capabilities in Search to call local stores on your behalf and see what products are in stock nearby, or let you know when an item online has fallen within your budget — and even buy it for you if the merchant is eligible.

Simplify the cooking process

• 1. Rely on Gemini for Home as your right-hand helper
     Gemini for Home replaces Google Assistant on your smart displays and speakers and also upgrades devices in your home like your cameras and doorbells. There are plenty of ways to use it for holiday hosting. Just say “Hey Google,” then ask Gemini to add ingredients for a cozy appetizer to your shopping list or set timers as you get to work in the kitchen. (You can even do this with your Pixel Watch 4 using its Raise to Talk feature if your hands are full.) And if you want to have an even more free-flowing conversation while you cook, you can say, "Hey Google, let's chat," to talk to Gemini Live.
• 1. Get quick visual cooking help from Google Lens
     With Google Lens, you can take a photo of ingredients sitting in front of you and ask your question out loud. For example, you can take a photo of your onions and ask “exactly what kind of onions are these and what’s the best way to cook them?”
• 1. Use Gemini to navigate dietary restrictions
     To make sure your guests don’t leave hungry, ask your Gem for help finding recipes everyone can enjoy based on dietary restrictions. Or try double-checking with Gemini Live that a specific ingredient really is gluten-free before you start whisking!

Enjoy the party with your guests

• 1. Solve party emergencies with AI Overviews
     Spills don’t have to be a disaster: AI Overviews in Search can get you instant solutions when every second counts. Search for something like "is salt or baking soda better for stain removal?” to get the information you need with links to learn more — helping you save the day and get back to your guests in no time.
• 1. Handle logistics in the Google Home app
     Our redesigned Google Home app lets you keep the good vibes going from your phone. The app houses your favorite Nest and other smart home devices and features: You can adjust your Nest Thermostat; unlock the front door as guests arrive and lower the lights to set the mood.
• 1. Use Magic Cue to quickly answer texts
     No need to field the same questions over and over as the party gets underway — Magic Cue on Pixel 10 anticipates your needs and links information across your apps. So instead of typing the same response to every “what’s your address again?” text, Magic Cue can offer a helpful suggestion with the answer so you can get back to hosting.
• 1. Grab the perfect group photo with Pixel
     It’s very possible that you’re going to be the one corralling everyone into a group photo and taking the picture. Luckily, Pixel 10 has lots of features to help you take stellar group pics, like Add Me, which can combine two pictures taken during the same session and in the same scene so everyone — including the person who took the original shot — is in the photo.

Tie it all up in a bow

• 1. Make easy Google Photos edits to perfect your pics
     New AI features in Google Photos can help you touch up party pictures before sharing them with your guests. With personalized edits, you can request fixes like opening people’s eyes mid-blink. You can also make edits simply by asking — describe the edits you want using your voice or text.
• 1. Craft thank you cards with Pixel and Google Photos
     After all the work you put into your gathering, you deserve the lightest-lift thank you cards possible. For just one idea, use “Help me edit” in Google Photos’ editor to add a festive background to party pictures!

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SynthID verification in the Gemini app

We are increasing content transparency by introducing the ability to verify if an image was generated or edited by Google AI right in the Gemini app.

At Google, we’ve long invested in ways to provide you with helpful context about information you see online. Now, as generative media becomes increasingly prevalent and high-fidelity, we are deploying tools to help you more easily determine whether the content you're interacting with was created or edited using AI.

Starting today, we’re making it easier for everyone to verify if an image was generated with or edited by Google AI right in the Gemini app, using SynthID, our digital watermarking technology that embeds imperceptible signals into AI-generated content.

We introduced SynthID in 2023. Since then, over 20 billion AI-generated pieces of content have been watermarked using SynthID, and we have been testing our SynthID Detector, a verification portal, with journalists and media professionals.

How it works

If you see an image and want to confirm it has been made by Google AI, upload it to the Gemini app and ask a question such as:
"Was this created with Google AI?" or “Is this AI-generated?”

Gemini will check for the SynthID watermark and use its own reasoning to return a response that gives you more context about the content you encounter online.

What’s next

This launch builds on our history of providing context about images in Google Search and exploring new research innovations like Backstory from Google DeepMind. Looking ahead, we will continue to invest in more ways to empower you to determine the origin and history of content online. Soon, we’ll expand SynthID verification to support additional formats beyond images, such as video and audio, and bring these capabilities to more surfaces, such as Search.

In addition to our own tools, we are collaborating with industry partners to advance content transparency and authenticity standards across our product ecosystem — including YouTube, Search, Pixel and Photos — through our role on the steering committee of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

As part of this, rolling out this week, images generated by Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) in the Gemini app, Vertex AI and Google Ads will have C2PA metadata embedded, providing further transparency into how these images were created. We look forward to expanding this capability to more products and surfaces in the coming months.

Over time, we will also extend our verification approach to support C2PA content credentials, meaning you'll be able to check the original source of content created by models and products that exist outside of Google’s ecosystem.

This work is central to our commitment to bold and responsible AI. We look forward to further contributing to the future of AI transparency.

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