Étiquette : google gemini

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. An independent 2025 benchmark put Claude Sonnet […]

Only two flagship AI Pro tiers currently offer a public free trial in May 2026: Google AI Pro (30 days, card required, renews at $19.99/month) and Microsoft Copilot Pro (1 month, card required, renews at $20/month). Cursor quietly removed its Pro trial earlier in 2026, ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro have never offered a public […]

NotebookLM is Google’s free AI research tool, and you use it in six steps. Sign in, create a notebook, and upload up to 50 sources. Then ask questions, check the inline citations, and open the Studio panel to generate study guides, an audio podcast, or a narrated video. Unlike a normal chatbot, NotebookLM grounds every […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more […]

The smart glasses race just got real. Google and Samsung unveiled their Android XR glasses at Google I/O 2026 on May 19, with a confirmed Fall 2026 ship date, partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and Gemini AI built into every interaction. Apple’s answer, code-named N50, is still roughly a year away, with Bloomberg’s […]

On May 6, 2026, Mindtrip launched the first all-in-one agentic AI flight booking experience, where you describe a trip in plain language, the AI compares fares across airlines, and you check out with PayPal inside the same chat. That single launch tells you everything about where travel apps went in 2026: away from form fields, […]

Google launched Gemini Spark on May 19, 2026 at I/O, and the press spent the next 24 hours calling it “Google’s answer to Claude Cowork.” That framing matters because Anthropic already shipped Cowork in general availability on April 9, 2026, which means Gemini Spark vs Claude Cowork is the only AI-agent comparison most knowledge workers […]

NotebookLM pricing in 2026 spans seven SKUs tied to Google AI subscriptions: Standard at $0/month, Plus at $7.99/month via Google AI Plus, Pro at $19.99/month via Google AI Pro, and Ultra at $99.99 or $200/month via the two new Google AI Ultra tiers, plus a student deal at $9.99/month, Workspace Business Standard at $14/user/month, and […]

Google now sells Gemini four different ways, and the price map just changed at Google I/O 2026. Google AI Ultra was cut from $249.99 to a new entry price of $99.99 per month, while Google AI Plus stays at $7.99 per month and Google AI Pro at $19.99 per month. On the API side, Google’s […]

Google just launched Gemini 3.5. The first model in the family, Gemini 3.5 Flash, went live on May 19, 2026 at Google I/O 2026, and it does something Google has never done before. The cheap, fast “Flash” tier now beats the previous flagship. Gemini 3.5 Flash outscores Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), MCP […]