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Google I/O 2026 Breakdown - What you Missed

2026-05-21 Science & Technology
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Checkout OutSkills for their first Claude-Athon: https://links.outskill.com/PROEN I sat down with Sam Witteveen at Google I/O 2026 to break down everything that shipped and the bigger industry trend hiding underneath it. Sam plants a flag early: the era of "bigger models" is ending, and products are now where the action is. We go through Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark, Antigravity 2.0, ADK, Gemma 4, and the trend most people are missing; the rise of RL environments and harness engineering as the real moat. Sam Witteveen: https://www.youtube.com/@samwitteveenai Sam on X: https://twitter.com/Sam_Witteveen LINKS: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/ https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-io-2026-news/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-introduces-gemini-spark-a-24-7-agentic-assistant-with-gmail-integration/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-launches-antigravity-2-0-with-an-updated-desktop-app-and-cli-tool-at-io-2026/ https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/ https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/the-ai-scaffolding-layer-is-collapsing-llamaindexs-ceo-explains-what-survives https://factory.ai/ https://adk.dev/ https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24621 https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-05-12/google-backed-isomorphic-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-driven-drug-discovery My voice to text App: whryte.com Website: https://engineerprompt.ai/ RAG Beyond Basics Course: https://prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0 Let's Connect: 🦾 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/t4eYQRUcXB ☕ Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/promptengineering |🔴 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PromptEngineering 💼Consulting: https://calendly.com/engineerprompt/consulting-call 📧 Business Contact: [email protected] Become Member: http://tinyurl.com/y5h28s6h 💻 Pre-configured localGPT VM: https://bit.ly/localGPT (use Code: PromptEngineering for 50% off). Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0

Top Comments (8)

@Anselm243 2026-05-21

Been watching you both for that last year and a half, didnt know you guys knew each other. Haven’t watched yet but already know this going to be a great conversation

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@GNARGNARHEAD 2026-05-21

the dynamic duo return! 😁

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@RoyaltyInTraining. 2026-05-21

It's kinda embarrassing how expensive 3.5 flash is. More expensive per tokens and more tokens per query. I'm just gonna stick with chinese models.

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@boloshabashe 2026-05-21

MASHALLAH

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@aaronmiller3032 2026-05-21

Like others, I've been following you guys for a while without knowing you were friends. Great collab!

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@thenoblerot 2026-05-21

I went to Sam's channel and was surprised there was no Google I/O content 😂

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@MountainDude-y5m 2026-05-23

RL environments as moat? Only if we fix spec fragility and runtime monitoring. Otherwise it's reward hacking with extra steps.

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@shApYT 2026-05-22

And yet the default model on gemini is now flash lite which is on par with gemma 4 26b.

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