S2-E9: Google AI announcements and legal challenges

In this episode Nikhil and Piyush discuss Google's recent AI announcements from the Google Pixel event and the recent antitrust ruling in the US declaring Google to be a monopolist. We discuss new AI capabilities in Google Pixel such as Gemini Live, multimodal AI, and the challenges of integrating LLMs into AI assistants. We then discuss the Google antitrust ruling and its implications for Google and Apple. The conversation also touches on the power dynamics of big tech companies, the future potential of AI to expand human sensory consciousness and the implications for AGI!

=== ⏰ CHAPTERS ===
- 00:00 Google Pixel event: AI features & Gemini
- 07:25 Google Gemini vs. Apple Intelligence
- 27:55 Google antitrust ruling
- 46:54 Future of AI: tech giants vs. startups

=== 🧠 KEY CONCEPTS ===
- AI in Google Pixel: Google announced the launch of new Pixel phones with AI features centered around Gemini Live. However, there was no mention of any third-party app integrations that were announced in Apple Intelligence.
- Gemini Live: Gemini Live allows real-time interaction with the Google AI model, combining voice input with access to the camera, screen, and app information.
- Multimodal AI: Integrating different modalities, such as text, image, audio, and video, into AI models is a complex challenge that researchers are working on. The ultimate goal is to develop multimodal models that can process and generate information in various formats, similar to human sensory consciousness.
- Google's monopoly status: A US judge ruled that Google is a monopolist in an antitrust case, which has implications for Google, Apple, and raises questions about the power dynamics of big tech companies and the future of AI.