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Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price.

Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on. We are working with the government to get to general availability as fast as we can.

I think it is quite reasonable to roll out models--especially as they reach significant new levels of capability--in this way. It fits with our long-held strategy of iterative deployment. But this isn't quite the process that we think is optimal.

Now we will with the government to attempt to get to a transparent, reliable process for early access, and to ensure that as long as our safeguards work as intended we can release widely. We want to be a reliable, dependable partner that works with all stakeholders, and we also want to live by our mission of benefiting all of humanity. I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation.

We will work as quickly as we can to get this model in your hands and we hope you will love it.

GPT-5.6 Sol preview — it's a good model: https://t.co/UihzcpfR22

oh and also...750 token/sec coming to 5.6 sol in july!

We’re sharing the next major milestone in our non-invasive brain-to-text decoder research: Brain2Qwerty v2.

Building on v1, which was published today in @Nature, Brain2Qwerty v2 is the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from raw brain signals. It advances beyond character-level performance to decoding words and semantics, enabling accuracy for overall communication.

We believe this research has the potential to make a real difference for the millions of people who suffer from brain lesions or disorders that prevent them from communicating.

🧵👇

We trained Brain2Qwerty v2 on ~22,000 sentences from 9 volunteers, each recorded for 10 hours wearing an MEG device while typing.

By using end-to-end deep learning on raw brain signals from MEG devices and fine-tuning LLMs, the system effectively bridges the gap between noisy neural data and coherent language.

The results are promising:
- Avg word accuracy of 61% across participants
- 78% word accuracy and 50%+ of sentences decoded with ≤ 1 word error for the top-performing participant
- Performance scales log-linearly with data volume

Here's something everyone should do: Record a video interview with your parents. Ask about their childhood adventures. Their worst regrets. Their hopes, dreams, and fears. Advice they wish they learned earlier. Our time with them is finite, but the recordings last forever.

“Loop engineering” is a hot buzzphrase after mentions of it by Boris Cherny (Claude Code’s creator) and Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw's creator) went viral on social media. Loops are now a key part of how we get AI agents to iterate at length to build software. In this letter, I’d like to share my 3 key loops, shown in the image below, for building 0-to-1 products. These loops guide not just how I build software, but also how I decide what software to build.

Agentic coding loop: Given a product specification and optionally a set of evals (that is, a dataset against which to measure performance), we can have an AI agent write code, test its work, and keep iterating until the code is bug-free and meets its specification. This idea of closing the loop took off around the end of last year, and it has been a game changer in enabling coding agents to work longer productively without human intervention. For example, over the weekend, I was building an app for my daughter to practice typing, and my coding agent could easily work for around an hour, using a web browser to check what it had built multiple times before getting back to me, without needing my intervention.

The engineering loop executes quickly. Every few minutes, the coding agent might build and test a new version of the software. I hear frequently from developers who are finding new ways to engineer more effective engineering loops. This is an active area of invention!

Developer feedback loop: In this loop, a developer examines the current product and steers the coding agent to improve it. Last year, a lot of developers (including me) were acting as the QA (quality assurance) function for our coding agents, manually finding bugs and then asking the agent to fix them. But with coding agents much more able to test their own code, the amount of time we need to spend on this function has decreased significantly. This allows us to make higher-level product decisions, such as what key features to offer, where the UI needs improvement, and so on.

The developer-feedback loop operates over time intervals between tens of minutes and hours — that's how frequently a developer might review a product and give feedback. In the case of the typing app, I changed my mind a few times about the visual design, what cat costumes she can unlock as she learns (she loves cats), and the user flow for a grown-up to log in and steer the child's learning experience.

When a developer has a clear vision for what to build, it is still a lot of work to translate that vision into a specification for a coding agent to implement. Further, after the developer has seen an implementation, they might update (or perhaps clarify) the spec to steer it toward what they want. If you find that the system repeatedly runs into certain problems, building a set of evals for the agent becomes useful.

AI-native teams are increasingly using AI to help shape product direction, for example, automating the gathering and analysis of usage data, summarizing written and verbal customer feedback, or carrying out competitive analysis. However, for pretty much all the products I’m involved in, I see humans as having a significant context advantage over current AI systems — we know a lot more than the AI system about the users and the context the product has to operate in — and thus humans play a critical role. Many people describe this human contribution as “taste,” but I prefer to think of it as humans having a context advantage, since that gives us a clearer path to helping AI systems get better. This also speaks to why this step can’t be automated: So long as the human knows something the AI does not, human-in-the-loop is needed to to inject that knowledge into the system.

External feedback loop: This includes a wide range of tactics like asking a few friends for feedback, launching to alpha testers, or putting the code into production with A/B testing. These tactics are usually slow, rarely taking less than hours and sometimes taking days or even weeks. This data informs the developer vision, which in turn continues to drive the detailed product spec, which in turn drives the coding agent.

With coding agents speeding up software development, more engineers are starting to play a partial product management role. For many engineers who are growing into this role, the hardest part is shaping the product vision and striking a balance between building (bridging the gap between vision and spec) and getting user feedback to evolve the vision. It is important to do both!

I will write more about how to do this in future posts, but for now, I find it encouraging that engineers are playing an expanded role (just as product managers and designers now do more engineering).

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We’re shipping two major updates to streamline your creative workflow, allowing you to generate high-speed images with one model and then instantly animate them with the other—all at a fraction of the cost 🍌⚡️

1️⃣ Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite: Our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini Image model yet delivers text-to-image outputs in under 4 seconds. Now available via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, and rolling out soon across @NotebookLM, @FlowbyGoogle, @geminiapp, @stitchbygoogle, Google Search and @GooglePhotos.

2️⃣ Gemini Omni Flash in Public Preview: Our natively multimodal model for cost-efficient video generation and conversational editing. Now available via the Gemini API, @googleaistudio, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform so you can integrate the model into your workflow.

While exciting on their own, the real magic happens when you build using these models together.

Watch how our interior design demo integrates Nano Banana 2 Lite and Omni to instantly reimagine any space. Upload a photo, swipe through tailored design concepts, and see Omni bring the details to life in cinematic motion.

Try out the demo app in AI Studio: https://t.co/EjYC2oHIDG

Introducing Nano Banana 2 Lite 🍌 and Gemini Omni Flash 🔮, our new generative media models in the Gemini API and AI Studio!

Nano Banana 2 Lite is extremely fast (<4s image) & cheap ($0.034 / 1K image).

Omni Flash is SOTA at video editing at $0.10 / sec, same as Veo 3.1 Fast! https://t.co/qDxRpqpX5E

Bridgewater, one of the worlds largest hedge funds, a Tinker customer talks through how they've carefully fine-tuned a model focused on what makes interesting financial news.
Their fine-tuned model is more effective and cheaper than any frontier model. https://t.co/8Q26Qr2oZT

As generative AI tools continue to evolve, we believe it's more important than ever to know what's AI-generated and what isn't. That’s why @GoogleDeepMind launched SynthID in 2023—a technology that adds a hidden digital watermark to AI content.

Here’s a summary of SynthID’s journey and where the provenance technology (the documented history and origin of digital content) is today:

— SynthID watermarking was originally built for images, but now supports video, audio, and text.

— The technology has watermarked over 100 billion images and videos, alongside 60,000 years of audio.

— You can now verify content with SynthID directly in Google Search, Gemini in Chrome, and the @GeminiApp, where it has been utilized over 50 million times.

— We’ve also adopted C2PA Content Credentials across a growing number of our generative AI tools. This includes the images and videos created within the Gemini app. So now, in addition to the SynthID watermark, you can also see where an image or video originated and how it’s been altered.

— We have open-sourced our text watermarking technology, and we are working with companies like @OpenAI, @NVIDIA, and @Apple to apply SynthID to generative media.

Let us know what you think of the tool so far!

There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean.

And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating:

Mass consumption of electricity and water is a growing bottleneck for data centers.

So by moving offshore, it eliminates both problems -- the ocean provides unlimited cooling, and the waves provide unlimited power.

There are also no engines, so the data centers drive themselves to their destination by using the shape of their hull to propel through waves.

Called Panthalassa.

I put together a new article on setting up local coding agents with open-weight models. Everything runs 100% locally.

I thought it might be useful putting this together because many people asked me about my setup in the past, and I thought it would also motivate people to get started tinkering with local models for serious work (yes, things got incredibly capable this year with better LLMs and better harnesses).

So, here's a walkthrough of how to connect a local LLM to a local coding harness (could be Claude Code or Codex, which you may already be familiar with).

I also included some assessment notes that are useful as a checklist to select between and consider certain LLMs over others:

- Checking RAM usage at long contexts to see if the model is suitable for real work
- Measuring prefill and decoding tok/sec to see whether it's fast enough to not be annoying
- Making sure the model has sufficient tool-calling capabilities in theory
- Assessing whether the model can solve some more challenging tasks when used in a coding harness.

Of course, there are always more specialized tools that can squeeze a bit more performance out of things, but I hope this is a good starter kit that stays flexible; that is you can easily switch to newer models as they are released or even tap into cloud models in your familiar harness if the current ones are not sufficient enough for a given task.

Have been taking different local open-weight LLMs for a test drive in different harnesses (Qwen-Code, Codex, Claude Code).

30B Mixture-of-Expert models are kind of a nice sweet spot and can solve challenging problems. And they get roughly 40 tok/sec on a Mac or DGX Spark, which is similar to GPT 5.5 in a Pro subscription and totally useable for everyday work.

More interesting is also the harness choice! Claude Code seems to be using 2x many tokens as Codex.

Gemma 4 E2B is here just for reference to show that the tasks can't be trivially solved by smaller models.

Just finishing a longer write-up about this and will share soon (likely tomorrow)!

Introducing GeneBench-Pro — testing whether models can handle the kind of judgment-heavy analysis that real-world computational biology requires.

Problems would take a human expert around 20-40 hours to complete.

GPT-5.6 Sol is a big step forward. https://t.co/JV5zztNQkk

This will hopefully unlock a new wave of better entries. Check it out!