Be in the know of what’s next

Ani Baddepudi, Gemini Model Behavior Product Lead, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into Gemini’s multimodal capabilities. Their conversation explores why Gemini was built as a natively multimodal model from day one, the future of proactive AI assistants, and how we are moving towards a world where “everything is vision.” Learn about the differences between video and image understanding and token representations, higher FPS video sampling, and more.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Why Gemini is natively multimodal
2:23 - The technology behind multimodal models
5:15 - Video understanding with Gemini 2.5
9:25 - Deciding what to build next
13:23 - Building new product experiences with multimodal AI
17:15 - The vision for proactive assistants
24:13 - Improving video usability with variable FPS and frame tokenization
27:35 - What’s next for Gemini’s multimodal development
31:47 - Deep dive on Gemini’s document understanding capabilities
37:56 - The teamwork and collaboration behind Gemini
40:56 - What’s next with model behavior