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How Google’s Agent2Agent protocol could transform business
In my last 25 years of building products with technology, I've learned one truth as a CTO: the most profound innovations aren't the ones that dazzle us with flash and spectacle, but those that quietly reshape how our systems connect. I implemented this principle with early web services, with cloud infrastructure, and now I'm preparing for it again with Google's Agent2Agent protocol—a development that might seem like just another API spec at first glance but carries the DNA of business transformation. This week, I watched several Google AI agent demonstrations, including Agent2Agent (A2A). Dr. Fran Hinkelman, Developer Relations Engineering Manager...
read Apr 12, 2025Can a machine out dream us? Google Gemini’s bold leap into thought
Decades ago, I read a book that felt like a dispatch from the future—The Age of Intelligent Machines, where a thinker named Ray Kurzweil imagined a world of computers not just crunching numbers but reasoning, creating, dreaming like us. In its pages, penned through the late 1980s, he saw machines weaving patterns of thought, turning silicon into poets and problem-solvers. That vision, born in an era of clunky computers and carried forward by Kurzweil and others at Google since 2012, wasn’t just a prediction; it was a question about what intelligence could mean. I recall those questions now, and marvel...
read Dec 4, 2024How DeepMind’s Genie 2 Research Allows A Game That Builds Itself
When I was a kid, I used to draw elaborate mazes on graph paper, imagining them as living, breathing video game worlds. I'd close my eyes and picture my stick figure hero jumping across platforms and battling monsters. But that's where it ended - on paper, in my imagination. Later in life I was able to work with games engines like Epic's Unreal Engine to make more elaborate games. Today, DeepMind has unveiled something that makes those childhood dreams seem quaint: Genie 2, an AI system that can turn a single image into a fully playable 3D world. Think of...
read May 23, 2024A Google AI Agent That Can See
Google Project Astra: A New Frontier for AI-Powered Visual Search https://youtu.be/nXVvvRhiGjI?si=Vp9V5gNvQoT0c1j6 Google Astra video demo We were really impressed with the Google Astra video demo we watched at the 2024 Google I/O event. Google DeepMind introduced us to Project Astra, an innovative AI-powered visual search tool that could revolutionize how businesses interact with the world around them. Here's what you need to know: What is Project Astra? Imagine having a personal AI assistant that can answer questions about anything you see. That's the idea behind Project Astra. It's a visual chatbot that combines Google Lens' capabilities with advanced AI. By...
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