The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) Google I/O 2025 Special Edition - #733
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May 28, 2025 
Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick from Google DeepMind dive into groundbreaking advancements from Google I/O 2025. They discuss the Gemini API's impressive features like thinking budgets and thought summaries, enhancing voice AI’s expressiveness with native audio output. The duo shares insights on the challenges of building real-time voice applications, including latency and voice detection. They also send a playful wish list for next year's event, dreamily aiming for enhanced language capabilities to foster global inclusivity.
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One Unified Gemini Model
- Google focuses on creating one comprehensive Gemini model with multiple capabilities integrated.
- This approach avoids splintering into many separate models, enabling powerful combined functionalities.
Control with Thinking Budgets
- Thinking budgets and thought summaries give developers control over reasoning in Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- These features aim to balance reasoning needs and transparency for developers.
Native Audio and URL Context
- Native audio output enables expressive, multilingual voice AI with realistic switching.
- URL Context tool adds in-depth webpage information retrieval for research agents.