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Episode 9 · May 26, 2026 · 09:06

New Google AI updates are INSANE!

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New Google AI updates are insane. Google just dropped new AI tools at once and each one does something that felt impossible a year ago. Project Genie, Gemini Omni, Google AI Studio Build Mode, Google Stitch, Google Picks, plus a new way to search called Ask YouTube. I'm going to walk you through every single one, show you what it does, and show you exactly how a normal business owner can use it.

No coding, no tech degree, just simple tools that do the hard work for you. Let me start with the one that made people stop and stare. Project Genie. Here's what it does.

You type a few words and Genie builds a whole world you can walk through. Not a picture, not a video. Living, moving, 3D place that you control. You move forward and it builds the path ahead of you in real time right as you go.

Now here's the part that made my jaw drop. Google plugged Genie into Google Street View. You know Street View right? Those photos of real streets all over the world.

Google has 280 billion of those images from 110 countries. So now you can pick a real spot on the map, type a prompt, and Genie reimagines it. Want your hometown as a snowy winter scene? Done.

Want a desert version of a busy city? Done. This rolled out on May 19th to Google's top tier subscribers in the US and it's spreading to more countries now. It's still an early prototype so it's not perfect.

The world's run at 720p and 24 frames a second. Sometimes the physics look a little off. Google's being honest about that which I respect. But think about where this is going.

Waymo, the self-driving car company, is already using Genie to train their cars on rare road situations. Robots can learn to move through these worlds before they ever touch the real one. That's huge. Now let me ask you something.

If Google can build entire worlds from a sentence, what do you think it can do with video? That brings me to number two. Gemini Omni. This one is a new kind of model.

Google calls it a world model. And here's the simple version. You feed it anything. Photo.

Sound. Video clip. Text. Any mix of those.

And it creates a high quality video back. Video that actually makes sense because it understands how the real world works. Demis Hassabis who runs Google DeepMind made a point about this on stage. He said Omni doesn't just glue your inputs together.

Reasons over them. It thinks about them and then makes something that holds together as one piece. That's the difference. And the editing is the magic.

Most AI video tools, if you want to change one small thing, you have to start over and pray. The Omni, you just talk to it. You say what to change and it changes that part. Nothing else gets wrecked.

Right now, Omni is live inside YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app. This isn't a someday thing. People are using it today. Here's a simple way to use it.

Make a short video that explains what the AI profit boardroom is, just from a few photos and a quick text prompt, then tweak it by talking. That's a full promo done in minutes, not days. And look, this is exactly why I keep telling people not to wait. The tools are moving fast, really fast.

And the gap between people who know how to use them and people who don't is getting wider every week. That's the whole reason the AI profit boardroom exists. If you want to learn how to use tools like Gemini Omni to make videos for your business, save hours every week and pull in more leads without hiring a big team, that's what we do inside. We've got four live coaching calls every week where you can ask about your exact setup.

We've got daily step-by-step tutorials walking you through these new Google tools the moment they land. And we've got a roadmap so you're never guessing what to do next. Links in the comments in the description or just go to aiprofitboardroom.com. Okay, let me keep going because number three is one a lot of you have been waiting for.

Google AI studio build mode. Here's the deal. Build mode lets you make a real app by just describing it. You type what you want in plain English and it builds it.

No writing code line by line. You talk, it builds. And at i-slash-o-2026, Google made it bigger. Now you can build native Android apps right in your browser.

There's even a little phone emulator built in so you watch your app come to life as you go. When you're happy, you can push it live to Google Cloud Run with one click. Runs on the new Gemini 3.5 flash model which is fast. Google says it's about four times faster at spitting out results than their last big model.

Not sitting there waiting. You describe, it builds, you see it. Now I'll be straight with you. Still some catch-up work happening.

Some of the back-end pieces, the stuff that stores your data and handles logins, aren't fully baked in yet. A browser-built app still needs a bit of extra work before it's a full finished product. Google's being upfront about that too. The direction is clear.

A year ago, building an app meant hiring someone or learning to code for months. Now you describe it and watch it appear. Here's how you'd use it. Build a simple members-only app for the AI profit boardroom where people can see the next coaching call and tap to join.

Just describe it and build mode does the heavy lifting. So if apps can be built by talking, what about design? What about the look of your website, your flyers, your whole brand? Google's coming for that too.

Two tools. Let me show you both. Number four, Google Stitch. Stitch is a design tool.

Not the kind you're used to. You don't drag boxes around for hours. You describe the screen you want and Stitch designs it. Whole web page or app screen laid out, colored, ready.

And the new version is wild. They added something called voice canvas. So now you can just talk to it. You say what you want and the AI design agent talks back.

It asks you smart questions about your goal, gives you feedback, suggests other options you didn't think of. Then it makes the changes live while you watch. It's also an infinite canvas now so you can lay out a whole app screen by screen all connected. And when you're done, you can send your design straight into AI studio or antigravity to turn it into a working site.

Export it to Figma or as ready to use code. The best part, Stitch is free. You go to stitch.withgoogle.com, sign in with your Google account and you're in. Here's a real use.

Tell Stitch to design a landing page for the AI profit boardroom that shows off the coaching calls in the community. Then refine it just by talking. Page that used to take a designer days done in an afternoon. Now stay with me because number five pairs perfectly with this.

Google pics. If Stitch is for app and web screens, pics is for everything else. Posters, flyers, social media graphics, invitations, marketing images. You type what you want and pics makes it.

No design skills needed at all. It's built on Google's newest image model called nano banana. And here's the clever bit. Pics treats every piece of your image as its own object.

So if you get something that's almost perfect but you want to swap one thing like change the color of a button or move a person, you just edit that one part. You don't have to start over and rewrite the whole prompt. That's been the biggest headache with AI images for years and pics fixes it. Google built this for regular people, teachers, small business owners, folks who don't have a designer on call.

It's basically Google taking on Canva. And by the way every image gets a hidden watermark called synth ID so people can tell it was made with AI. That's a nice touch for staying honest. Pics is in testing now with a small group and it rolls out to Google's paid subscribers in workspace this summer.

Here's the last one and this one changes how you find information every single day. It's YouTube. You know how you go to YouTube to learn something but there are a hundred videos and you don't know where to start? YouTube fixes that.

You type a real question, a full question and Gemini searches across all of YouTube. Then it gives you an answer plus the exact videos that match. Here's the part Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO pointed out on stage. It doesn't just hand you a video, jumps you to the exact part of the video that answers your question.

No more scrubbing through 20 minutes to find the one bit you need. It takes you right there and it handles follow-up questions so you can ask one thing then ask more and it keeps the thread going like a real conversation. Right now it's being tested and it's rolling out wider across the US this summer. It's for YouTube premium members first.

So let me pull this all together because when you step back you see the bigger picture. Check Genie builds worlds from words. Gemini Omni makes video from anything. Studio build mode makes apps from a sentence.

Stitch designs your screens by voice. Pix makes all your marketing images and Ask YouTube finds you any answer in seconds. Notice the pattern. Single One takes a job that used to need a specialist and hands it to a regular person.

You don't need to code, you don't need to design, you don't need a film crew. You describe what you want and the tool does it. A year ago most of this was a dream. It's live or rolling out in weeks.

That's how fast this is moving and I get it. It can feel like a lot. New tools every week and you're busy running your actual business. You don't have time to test every shiny new thing and figure out which ones matter.

That's fair. That's exactly why having a guide matters right now. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom we do that work for you. The moment a tool like Google Picks or Stitch goes live we make a step-by-step tutorial showing you how to use it to get more customers and save time in your business.

Got four coaching calls every week where you can bring your questions and your screen and get real answers. We've got a community of 2,800 business owners all figuring this out together so you're never stuck alone. We've got a prompt library so you don't have to guess what to type and we've got a member map so you can connect with people near you doing the same thing. Links in the comments in the description or head to AIProfitBoardroom.com and if you want the full notes from this video plus over 100 AI use cases like the ones I just showed you come join the AI Success Lab.

It's our free community. You'll get all the video notes and you'll be in there with 67,000 members who are doing great things with AI every day. Links are in the comments in the description.

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