Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Checkout OutSkills for their first Claude-Athon: 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: youtube.com/@samwitteveenai
Sam on X: twitter.com/Sam_Witteveen
LINKS:
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/
9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-io-2026-news
techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-introduces-gemini-spark-a-24-7-agentic-assistant-with-gmail-integration
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/
venturebeat.com/infrastructure/the-ai-scaffolding-layer-is-collapsing-llamaindexs-ceo-explains-what-survives
factory.ai
https://adk.dev/
github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent
techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24621
money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-05-12/google-backed-isomorphic-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-driven-drug-discovery
https://goo.gle/google-for-developers
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00:00 Models to Products Shift
04:38 Acquisition Signals from Usage
05:54 Gemini Flash 3 5 Impressions
08:35 Pricing and Token Economics
11:08 RL Environments and Training
11:32 Sponsor Break Claudathon
15:06 Frameworks to Harness Engineering
18:39 Local Models Catch Up
27:34 Gemini Flash Token Costs
34:43 Who Is Winning Race
Checkout OutSkills for their first Claude-Athon: 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: youtube.com/@samwitteveenai
Sam on X: twitter.com/Sam_Witteveen
LINKS:
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/
9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-io-2026-news
techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-introduces-gemini-spark-a-24-7-agentic-assistant-with-gmail-integration
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/
venturebeat.com/infrastructure/the-ai-scaffolding-layer-is-collapsing-llamaindexs-ceo-explains-what-survives
factory.ai
https://adk.dev/
github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent
techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts
arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24621
money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-05-12/google-backed-isomorphic-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-driven-drug-discovery
https://goo.gle/google-for-developers
My voice to text App: whryte.com
Website: engineerprompt.ai
RAG Beyond Basics Course:
prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag
Signup for Newsletter, localgpt:
https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0
Let's Connect:
🦾 Discord: discord.com/invite/t4eYQRUcXB
☕ Buy me a Coffee: ko-fi.com/promptengineering
|🔴 Patreon: patreon.com/PromptEngineering
💼Consulting: calendly.com/engineerprompt/consulting-call
📧 Business Contact: engineerprompt@gmail.com
Become Member: tinyurl.com/y5h28s6h
💻 Pre-configured localGPT VM: bit.ly/localGPT (use Code: PromptEngineering for 50% off).
Signup for Newsletter, localgpt:
https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0
00:00 Models to Products Shift
04:38 Acquisition Signals from Usage
05:54 Gemini Flash 3 5 Impressions
08:35 Pricing and Token Economics
11:08 RL Environments and Training
11:32 Sponsor Break Claudathon
15:06 Frameworks to Harness Engineering
18:39 Local Models Catch Up
27:34 Gemini Flash Token Costs
34:43 Who Is Winning Race
