Jack Krawczyk, who led product development for Google’s Bard and Gemini AI projects, is taking on a new role at Meta. The move comes as Meta introduces its standalone Meta AI app for the first time at its developer conference. On LinkedIn, Krawczyk outlined his perspective on building AI assistants.
Personality is product. People want to talk to someone that resembles a friend or a coach; they don’t want a sanctimonious assistant. Insightful, knowledgeable, non-judgmental, humble, and a little witty are table stakes for excellent interactions. Trust hinges on guiding people to their own informed conclusions—not telling them what or how to think.
NotebookLM’s "Audio Overviews" feature is now available in approximately 75 languages, including less commonly spoken ones such as Icelandic, Basque, and Latin. The audio for each language is generated by AI agents using "metaprompting," with the Gemini 2.5 Pro language model as the underlying system. At the same time, Google is moving to an audio production technology based entirely on Gemini’s multimodality, a development that does not bode well for providers focused exclusively on audio models.


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Download File: https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/notebooklm_50_demo.mp4?_=1As with AI-generated text, audio created by language models can also contain inaccuracies. This issue is especially pronounced in AI-generated podcasts, where large amounts of audio may be produced from minimal source text, and the conversion from text to dialogue constitutes a significant alteration of the original material.