This Week in Startups is cooking with oil today as @Jason and @alex interview Aarush Selvan, the product lead behind Google Geminiβs Deep Research.
Key highlights:
1οΈβ£ Google Gemini's Deep Research: Your personal AI-powered research agent. Aarush demos its potential to automate
Today we are launching our next agent capable of doing work for you independentlyβdeep research.
Give it a prompt and ChatGPT will find, analyze & synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report in tens of minutes vs what would take a human many hours.
Today weβre announcing the next iteration of Deep Research. Itβs now powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, which makes it better at every part of its research. Also, weβre making it free to try for all Gemini users!
Today, weβre making big upgrades to the performance and availability of our most popular Gemini features, and adding a new feature that will make Gemini even more personal and helpful: goo.gle/3R2NZK6
Letβs break down todayβs updates π§΅β¬οΈ
We just put out Deep Research powered by Gemini 2.5 pro. It's only available to Advanced users for now but is a step-change improvement in capabilities of this feature. Excited to see how people will use it
π£ Deep Research is now powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, our most intelligent AI model. β¨
This upgraded Deep Research is now even better at:
π Finding & synthesizing information
π Providing more insightful reports
π§ Analytical reasoning
Gemini Advanced users can access the new
Update from the weekend: the upgraded Gemini Deep Research is now ramped to all iOS and Android phones. Also we doubled the usage limits for all free users π
Life update: About a month ago I joined @OpenAI to work on Search. Iβll miss working with many amazing friends and mentors on @GeminiApp but Iβm equally excited to collaborate with @nickaturley, @adamhfry, @cristina_scheau and many others to transform how users access knowledge.
Today we are announcing Canvas, a new way of collaborating with Gemini to write and refine documents or code. It's got a ton of nifty features (inspired by some of our other popular collaboration tools), is free and is available in all languages and countries where @GeminiApp is
With Canvas in Gemini, you can:
β¨οΈ Write, iterate & preview React/HTML code
π Draft & edit comprehensive documents
π¨ Build interactive prototypes, games & visualization
β¦and more.
Simply select βCanvasβ in your prompt bar and you can write and edit documents or code, with
Favorite Deep Research query: "You are tasked with building out a business case for a new robotaxi business in the UK - a JV between waymo and uber. Build a discounted cash flow model for the value of the business after 3 years, assuming they start today". Check it out:
We are also enabling you to create Audio Overviews from within the @Geminiapp, thanks to a little help from the @NotebookLM team. What this now means is that you can turn your Deep Research reports into an audio overview and listen on the go.
I'm the PM for Deep Research. We have a dedicated YT Extension in Gemini for doing Q&A over videos based on the transcript. However, this tool isn't supported in Deep Research yet since this has not been a major use case. General web browsing can get us pretty far (including some
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