When AI-generated content has become so realistic, how do we verify what's made by human, machine, or nature?
We explore the vital role of provenance – and how imperceptible watermarking can safeguard both digital media and biological designs – on our podcast. ↓
Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 What is a watermark?
04:35 SynthID
15:16 Images and video
19:28 SynthID Bio
28:00 Future of resilience
As AI accelerates scientific discovery, we’re helping researchers keep pace by quickly authenticating if biological designs are created with built-in safeguards, without stalling crucial work. 🔬
We’re releasing these tools on an open basis for research use to strengthen safeguards → goo.gle/3VmICLk
Acting like a digital ID card, the watermark can help DNA labs verify synthetic proteins and keep sequence databases accurate.
As these requests increasingly scale, verifying if designs come from AI with built-in safeguards will help labs automate and strengthen biosecurity. 🛡️
SynthID Bio is our new family of watermarking methods made for AI-generated biological designs.
In a world first, we can now embed an imperceptible signature directly into protein sequences without affecting their biological function. 🧵
With a 1M token output limit, Argon adds a deeper level of reasoning to tackle long, multi-step problems in one go.
Feedback from early testers will help us strengthen our systems before we roll out more broadly to developers, enterprises, and consumers soon.
Find out more → goo.gle/4rZBiSd
Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model.
It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.
Fine-tune the delivery line by line, shaping pacing, emotion, and cues like laughs or pauses.
All generated audio is watermarked with SynthID so it can be reliably identified as AI-generated.
Start building with the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio. Find out more → goo.gle/4dw40ns
Create and deploy custom audio with our new text-to-speech models:
🔵 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Design unique voices with distinct accents and characteristics.
🔵 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Built for efficiency and scale, choose from your created styles or our expansive production-ready library.
These discoveries are just the beginning.
AlphaGenome Atlas is freely accessible to empower researchers everywhere to decode the genetic causes of disease. Explore the database → goo.gle/4heuCvn
Every second, millions of genome switches dictate how our cells function and adapt. 🧬
Working with @ScienceStowers, Atlas mapped 2,500+ regulatory patterns uncovering the DNA sequences that act as biological switches and volume dials to turn gene activity up or down across hundreds of cell types.
ALT Fluorescent microscope view of numerous blue cell nuclei scattered against a black background.
In collaboration with the @UniofExeter, researchers used AlphaGenome Atlas to analyze data from 54,000+ @uk_biobank participants. They found:
📈 A 22%+ boost in detecting rare genetic signals
🎯 It uncovered new DNA variants influencing the abundance of PLA2G7, a protein linked to metabolic health.
ALT Top-down view of a laboratory centrifuge rotor with numbered sample slots.
Scientists at @BroadInstitute search for the underlying causes of unexplained rare disease cases, but the list of possible mutations is vast.
Using Atlas, researchers pinpointed a critical mutation in the DNM1 gene, which was confirmed and validated in the lab.
ALT A pipette tip dips into clear liquid within a petri dish. Colorful DNA bands are visible below the surface in the background.
Researchers at @BroadInstitute, @UniofExeter, and beyond are already using AlphaGenome Atlas to better identify potential disease-causing DNA variants and interpret their role. 🧵
ALT Glowing pink DNA double helix against a dark blue, starry background, with one highlighted orange base pair.
Watch how we used 3.8 Live Extended Thinking to act as a programming tutor.
Both models feature:
🔵 Upgraded reasoning
🔵 Near real-time visual understanding
🔵 Automatic detection for 97 languages
🔵 Background tool calling without disrupting your chat
For your most difficult tasks, 3.8 Live Extended Thinking adds increased performance and precision – narrating task progress to keep the conversation going.
Try it now in Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp or start building with the Gemini API via @GoogleAIStudio.
Find out more → goo.gle/4xWn2vo
We’re introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking – our best conversational AI.
The models talk, think, and handle tasks in the background without breaking your flow. 🧵
Giving teams a look ahead at rapidly changing weather helps them balance power grids and match clean energy to everyday consumer demand. 🌍
Find out more about WeatherNext 3 → goo.gle/4zQe5Fc
Because conditions can shift quickly, WeatherNext 3 updates every single hour:
💨 For wind farms: Predicts speed and direction at turbines as high as 100m to project power generation.
☀️ For solar farms: Forecasts cloud cover and radiation to estimate sunlight levels reaching solar panels.
Weather forecasts play a critical role in the transition to renewables.
WeatherNext 3 provides grid operators as well as wind and solar power producers with predictions for turbine-height wind speeds and solar radiation, enabling smarter, cleaner energy planning. 🧵