Google Ships Real-Time AI in Meet

Nano Banana, the Gemini 2.5 Flash–based model behind 5B+ image edits, is now embedded across Search, Lens, NotebookLM and shortly Photos. Lens on iOS and Android gets a brand new Create mode for real-time image generation and transformations.

NotebookLM now uses Nano Banana to auto-illustrate video overviews in six styles and might generate Transient clips that compress dense documents into narrated, visual capsules.

Search and Discover are moving into real-time surfacing. Discover now pushes expandable previews of trending topics linking straight to articles and a “What’s recent” feed for player and team lookups, mixing live stats with media pulls. Gmail’s recent Help me schedule parses draft intent and calendar availability to surface suggested slots inline and auto-issue invites once accepted. One-to-one just for now.

AI Studio now has a live token/rate dashboard and an unreleased “I’m Feeling Lucky” generator that assembles random prompts using Gemini modules like Nano Banana. Model selector hints at variant unlocks.

And Google Meet now has virtual makeup that really tracks your face, powered by real-time face landmark models, and stays put even whenever you move. It’s off by default but rolling out on web and mobile, finally catching as much as Teams and Zoom. Read more.

The corporate has launched its Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, a panel of eight specialists in psychiatry, psychology, and human-computer interaction, to advise on protected AI usage. Council insights are already shaping ChatGPT and Sora, powering parental controls and an age-prediction system that robotically applies teen-appropriate settings and alerts parents if a toddler shows signs of distress. This comes amid an FTC inquiry and lawsuits questioning the protection of AI interactions for minors.

For adult users, a significant December update will let ChatGPT feel more human and expressive. Verified adults can engage in erotic conversations, customize tone, personality, and magnificence, and use emoji-enhanced responses. OpenAI has deployed automatic moderation via gpt-5-chat-safety, switching models when users enter sensitive emotional or mental-health topics, while restoring the friendlier, more personable traits from GPT-4o.

A brand new Walmart partnership lets users browse and buy products, including Sam’s Club items, directly in-chat via OpenAI’s Quick Checkout. This replaces clunky search bars with a more interactive, multimedia shopping experience and positions Walmart to compete with Amazon’s AI tools. OpenAI’s latest streak of massive deals show Sam Altman is selling a vision of a world-changing product with financial engineering to fuel the corporate’s $1 trillion project ambition. Read more.

Nvidia’s ultra-compact ‘personal AI supercomputer’ lands today. DGX Spark, starting at $3,999, squeezes a petaflop of FP4 performance right into a 2.6-pound chassis. At its heart, the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip fuses a 20-core Arm Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU, RTX 5070 class CUDA cores, and fifth-generation Tensor Cores.

The system packs 128GB of unified LPDDR5x memory, 4TB of NVMe storage, NVLink-C2C delivering 5× the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5, and an Ubuntu-based DGX OS preloaded with CUDA libraries, NIM microservices, frameworks, and pretrained models.

DGX Spark handles inference on models as much as 200B parameters and native fine-tuning on models as much as 70B. OEMs including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI will ship branded desktops, while a bigger GB300-based DGX Station is coming. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang personally delivered the primary unit to Elon Musk at SpaceX, right next to a Starship pad.

Nvidia also unveiled its “gigawatt AI factories” with the Vera Rubin NVL144 rack server. Liquid-cooled and open-standard, it scales modularly with expansion bays, 800V DC power, and 45°C liquid-cooled busbars. NVL144 supports as much as 576 upcoming Vera Rubin GPUs, cableless NVLink-C2C networking, a central PCB midplane, and ConnectX-9 800GB/s links, while Meta and Oracle adopt Spectrum-X Ethernet for high-speed AI training. Together, these launches bridge desktop experimentation and enterprise-scale AI workloads. Read more.