#Product update

AIGoogle Research will demo Co-Director, a hierarchical multi-agent framework that optimizes video generation and consistency for long-form storytelling, at the #COLM2026 Google booth #107 today at 1:00 PM PT. The demo showcases interactive cinematic narratives, and the team's blog post details the approach.

AIvLLM announced day-0 support for EmbeddingGemma 2 from Google DeepMind, a bidirectional omni-modal embedding model that maps text, image, audio, video, and interleaved inputs into one vector space. Users can try it with the latest vLLM nightly build using the command vllm serve google/embeddinggemma-2 --runner pooling. The quoted Google post says the model is built on the Gemma 4 architecture and released under Apache 2.0.

AIGoogle released Nano Banana 2.1, an update to its image generation and editing model, offering higher-quality images and bug fixes from previous versions. The update also comes with a new lower price point. It is available through the API, AI Studio, and the Gemini app.

AIWaymo says its vehicles may begin appearing on Detroit roads this week without a human driver. The company says it is not yet picking up riders and invites users to download the Waymo app to be among the first when service launches.

AIReplicate has made Nano Banana 2.1, Google DeepMind's latest image model, available, optimized for a balance of price and performance. The model offers improved visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency for more natural-looking images.

AIHark Pro is now live on web, iOS, and Android as a new personal agent, and early users reportedly get one free month of Pro. The post says the product is powered by Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, and praises its polished design, detailed animations, and AI-customized cards.

AIand files from those apps can also be opened within Claude. In Google Workspace, Claude appears in a sidebar next to the open file, reads its contents, and edits it in place, with each edit available for user approval before it is applied.

AIGoogle DeepMind's Nano Banana 2.1, Google's latest image generation and editing model, is now available on Design Arena. The model brings improvements in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency, aiming to produce more natural-looking images with greater control across editing workflows.

AIGrok can turn a pasted article or PDF into a podcast where two hosts discuss the content. Each script line is voiced as soon as it is written, so playback begins before the full script is finished. The example code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AIThe xai-cookbook's x-sentiment-tracker lets users pick a topic, then has Grok run one X search per day over the last 10 days and score each post from -1 to +1. The dashboard displays the sentiment split, day-by-day movement, and the posts behind each score.

AICursor has added five apps to its cookbook, all built on the new SpaceXAI TypeScript SDK. The apps cover premise-to-short-film, picture-to-video ads, screenshot-to-React-component, X posts-to-sentiment dashboard, and link-to-podcast conversion. Demos and code are available in the post.

AIAnthropic's Claude Startup Stack combines offers from companies building with Claude, including Linear, Lovable, ElevenLabs, Granola, and Hex. Startups get discounts and credits worth up to $45,000 on tools spanning sales, design, data engineering, and more.

AIKrea has made Nano Banana 2.1 available on its platform, promising better prompt understanding, sharper edits, and stronger subject consistency. The model now supports generations up to 4K resolution.

AIGoogle Flow says it partnered with Divine to create the music video for "Tequila Dance," framing the project as a showcase of how technology can amplify human expression. The post provides no further details about the tools or production process used.

AISGLang now supports EmbeddingGemma 2 from Google DeepMind on day zero. The multimodal embedding model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into one shared 768d space, with 8K context and 100+ languages. Its modular encoders range from a 270M text-only footprint to 740M for all modalities, with Matryoshka embeddings.

AIGoogle says EmbeddingGemma 2, paired with Gemma 4, enables efficient on-device retrieval-augmented generation with a lower memory footprint. In this setup, EmbeddingGemma 2 retrieves local files and Gemma 4 reasons over them to produce grounded answers while keeping data private.

AIElevenLabs has introduced ElevenAgents Architect, which lets team members manage agents from within ElevenAgents or from Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Grok Bot. The post presents this as a way for any team member to manage agents wherever they work.

AIElevenLabs introduces ElevenAgents Architect, which creates a new agent from a user's description and attached context files. The tool is said to configure the agent end to end, covering the prompt, guardrails, and knowledge base.

AIElevenAgents Architect can reason across thousands of your conversations to identify opportunities you might otherwise miss. Each opportunity is returned as a proposal with the fix already built and validated in simulation.

AIElevenAgents Architect is a tool that answers questions about your agents, such as why customers asked for a human agent on refund calls and how to improve resolution rates on account queries. It analyzes your transcripts, suggests improvements, implements them, and can build a test set to keep your agent on brand.

AIElevenLabs introduced ElevenAgents Architect, an expert built into ElevenAgents that helps teams launch and improve AI agents through voice or text. The post describes it as a conversational way to create and refine agents without further technical detail provided.

AIGoogle has released Nano Banana 2.1, its latest image generation and editing model, which it says outperforms previous versions with gains in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency. Paige Bailey shared a pug smile example made with the model and invited users to try it in Google AI Studio.

AIGoogle's Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1) is now available and outperforms the previous Pro model at $0.034 per image, versus $0.134 before. It adds improved instruction following, better in-image text rendering, grounding with Google Image Search, and consistency for up to 5 characters with 14 reference images. It is available in Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Google Cloud, the Gemini app, and Flow by Google.

AIGoogle's Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is now available on fal, offering significantly faster generation than Nano Banana 2. The model adds major gains in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency.

AIMicrosoft's Copilot has a new identity designed around how work actually happens, bringing apps, tools, and context into one connected experience. The post offers a behind-the-scenes look at the redesign but gives no further specifics.

AIGoogle's new multimodal embedding setup processes image, audio, and video entirely offline with zero server calls. Its modular design lets developers drop unused vision and audio components to save memory, and flexible dimension sizes cut local database storage by up to 6x. It can also pair with Gemma 4 to build RAG pipelines with minimal memory and processing requirements.

AIReplit now lets users start a new chat and ask it to locate existing projects, add features, or use one project as a reference for another. The assistant can read project files and run edits as background tasks, with links to review changes and continue work.