What’s Going On With Google Gemini Deep Research? | E2072
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Today’s show: Jason and Alex interview Aarush Selvan, lead PM at Google Gemini Deep Research, and discuss their groundbreaking work. They also took a moment to cover TikTok’s dire situation and AI investment to start the year.
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(1:26) Jason Calacanis shares his Japan skiing experience (6:18) Arush Selvan from Google Gemini team background discussion (9:26) PrizePicks. TWiST listeners, download the app today and use code TWIST to get $50 instantly after you play your first $5 lineup! Go to: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/TWIST PrizePicks - Run your game. (14:23) Deep research demonstration and server resource usage (19:42) Coda. TWiST listeners get 6 months at https://www.Coda.io/twist (22:11) Google's business model and AI-generated research reports (29:55) Fitbod. Get 25% off your Fitbod subscription or try out the app for FREE when you sign up: fitbod.me/TWIST (32:00) Personalized data integration and content permissions in AI tools (34:22) Differentiation and hallucinations in AI-generated content (44:11) Business models for AI search engines and OpenAI's new task feature (54:30) Synthesia's AI-generated video tool demo and privacy in biometric payments (59:36) Investments in AI companies and TikTok's potential ban (1:04:17) Chinese government influence and US rule of law in tech (1:07:29) Irony of migrating to Little Red Book and upcoming inauguration (1:08:02) Staying updated with This Week in Startups
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| 0:00.0 | Deep research is designed to be your personal AI research agent. The way it works is you sort of give |
| 0:05.6 | your query. It'll first break it down into a research plan. And by the way, we should totally just |
| 0:10.9 | share my screen. Actually, I can just talk while we're on this. Okay, perfect. Awesome. And then it |
| 0:16.8 | researches the web. First step is it's going to put together this research plan. The plan looks pretty |
| 0:20.6 | good. So I'm just going to go ahead and start the research. |
| 0:22.4 | How does it make the plan while we're sort of sitting here watching you do the research, |
| 0:27.1 | which I find these queries take five minutes or so, which makes me feel good. |
| 0:31.1 | I don't know if it's actually taking you 10 seconds and you're making me wait four and |
| 0:35.4 | a half minutes just to make me feel like you're doing a better job and it's more worth it. |
| 0:40.7 | No, no, it takes us the full five. |
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| 1:28.3 | It is Wednesday, January 15th, 2025, and we're back. |
| 1:33.5 | I'm back from Japan, and I had the most wonderful trip. |
| 1:40.0 | My second time, Alex, going skiing in an area known as Hokkaido. |
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