Veo 3 API updates 🎥 - price drops! Veo 3 is $0.40 / second, a ~46% decrease and Veo 3 fast is $0.15 / second, a ~62% decrease) - support for 1080p videos - support for vertical videos (mobile) Veo 3 is also stable now and ready for scaled production use :)

I once again learned something new from Karl Weinmeister. LiteLLM (YC W23) looks like a nice proxy in front of multiple LLMs in Google Cloud Vertex AI. Karl shows how you could invoke this directly, in Cline or Roo Code, and as a persistent background service.

Build in AI Studio and deploy to Cloud Run to enter the challenge:

As AI reaches new heights of capabilities, and of scale, it is critical that you are taking advantage of the most optimized systems for inference performance. Check out what you can achieve with Google Cloud and especially with TPUs. Google Cloud cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Want to speed up your 3D gaming projects? Check out how Google Cloud and Common Sense Machines tools for character creation can help you build faster and smarter. Learn more ↓

ABSOLUTE JOY Camryn Rogers is gold again. 2023 Worlds - Gold 2024 Olympics - Gold 2025 Worlds - Gold She is unstoppable. And she is from Canada.

Big, BIG deal. Trust is built, not given. Here's a new universal protocol that provides a trusted foundation for agent-driven payments. Who's bought in? Payments companies like Amex, Mastercard, PayPal, and Coinbase. Ecommerce companies, SaaS vendors, and more. 👇

CANADIANS ARE QUALIFIED It was an anxious, gut-wrenching wait for Jerome Blake, Aaron Brown and Andre De Grasse — who had to wait at our broadcast spot to learn if they were advancing. And they all are. Just barely. But onto the 200m semifinals. Here’s their reaction.

Excited to expand our work together with @paypal to make online transactions simpler and more secure.

The world is not zero sum It's amazing that both a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 and Y Combinator are coming to Toronto and Waterloo This is not an affront to 🇨🇦 — this is game seeing game When Nicolas Dessaigne Andrew Miklas Christopher Golda Harshita Arora said you HAVE TO MOVE TO SF, I ran back up on stage

The Accelerate AI with Cloud Run tour is headed to Europe! 👉 Register at goo.gle/accelerate-ai Join me, Remigiusz Samborski , Shir Meir Lador, and the Google team in a hands-on developer workshop near you! 📍 Dublin: Oct 29 📍 Munich: Oct 31 📍 Paris: Nov 4

Uh, Matthew, I’d like to introduce you to a little app called NotebookLM

I'm looking at Cloud Run adoption numbers right now:📈 While the majority of deployments are directly to Cloud Run, a lot are also coming from Google AI Studio or Firebase. 🚀

It should be as easy to develop and deploy an app on Google as it is to write and share a Google doc. We have work to do.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Paul Jankura’s most capable model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, on Vertex AI. cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Today, we're proud to announce a new partnership with University of Waterloo to explore the intersection of AI and the future of work and learning. Our partnership will fund a new Research Chair and hands-on learning labs, bringing together our expertise in AI with Waterloo’s innovative

No surprise to see Shopify here 👊🏽

Burgers for Thanksgiving? If they’re the best burgers in the country and the country is Canada, damn straight! 🇨🇦🦃

Check out how to leverage Apigee with #kubernetes and GKE Inference Gateway for AI serving workloads developers.googleblog.com/en/apigee-oper…

Introducing grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, bringing data about 250 million places and Gemini together to create all new experiences 🗺️! So powerful to connect things like maps + search together in a single experience : )