Platform overview

0:00 This is a playground style environment, so there's a lot more customization and tools, but that also means it can feel a little overwhelming at first. Don't worry though, it's easy to navigate, just not the prettiest interface. I'll walk through what all of this is throughout the video, but just know you can ignore half of it. And there are four main areas. Chat, which is a standard chat interface, but with some really unique features. Stream, where you can interact in real time using your voice, your camera, or even by sharing your screen.

0:23 Super useful. Generate media, which lets you create images, videos, and audio with prompts. And build, where you can create full apps using just natural language. Gemini writes the code in the background. You can make actual tools or in my case, I built a full game in just a few prompts. No matter how many times I do that, it still blows my mind it's possible. I'm going to start with chat. And before I dive into all the settings and customization options, I want to show you one of my favorite features that you won't find anywhere else.

1:09 Video input. A lot of models are multimodal now. They can handle text, images, and audio, but very few can actually understand full videos as input. This one can. I actually was going to make a whole separate video just about this ability, but the first