Google’s Secret AI Tools You Probably Don’t Know About

Hey there 👋

Google now has dozens of AI tools – not just Gemini.



If you feel lost between Gemini, NotebookLM, Imagen, Veo, Firebase, Vertex, Gemma… this issue of AI & TI is your cheat sheet.

Let’s keep it super simple 👇

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🧠 The Big Brains: 3 Tools You Should Know First

1️⃣ Gemini (the main assistant)

• Chat, write, summarise, code, translate

• Works on web & mobile

• Also getting image & video generation inside

2️⃣ Gemini in Workspace & Gemini Enterprise

• AI inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides & Meet

• Draft emails, rewrite docs, analyse sheets, build slides

• For companies: create internal AI agents for everyday work

3️⃣ NotebookLM (your AI study buddy)

• You upload PDFs, Docs, web pages, YouTube links

• It summarises, explains and answers questions only from your material

• Great for students, teachers, writers & researchers

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🔍 Everyday AI in Your Pocket

📸 Google Lens

• Point your camera → translate, identify, copy text, solve math

🌐 AI Overviews & Search Live

• AI Overviews: quick summaries on top of Google Search

• Search Live: talk to Search using camera + voice like a live assistant

🧭 Gemini in Chrome & Android

• Chrome: summarise pages, help you write replies

• Android: Gemini can replace Google Assistant on many phones

🖼️ Google Photos AI

• Magic tools to remove objects, fix blur, enhance photos in a tap

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🎨 Create with Google’s Generative AI

🖼 Nano Banana / “Gemini Image”

• AI image generator inside Gemini

• Posters, thumbnails, social images, better text inside images

🎨 Imagen

• High-quality text-to-image model

• Better detail, better text rendering on images

🎬 Veo

• Text-to-video model

• Short, HD videos for stories, reels, explainers

🎵 Lyria

• AI for music & sound

• Great for experimental audio, background tracks

🧩 Mixboard

• AI moodboard tool

• Explore ideas, styles and visual directions for projects

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👨‍💻 Build Apps & Agents with Google AI

💡 Google AI Studio + Gemini API

• Playground to test prompts & models

• One click → get code for your app

• Use Gemini, Imagen, Veo, Lyria from a single place

🏢 Vertex AI & Conversational Agents (Dialogflow CX)

• Enterprise platform for AI apps and chatbots

• Build support bots, voice bots, internal assistants

• Connect with Vision, Speech, Translation & Document AI

📞 Contact Center AI & Customer Engagement Suite

• Ready-made stack for modern call centres & customer support

• AI agents + agent assist + analytics

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👨‍💻💻 Power Tools for Developers

⚙️ Gemini Code Assist

• AI coding partner across editors and repos

🚀 Antigravity (agent-first IDE)

• New dev environment where AI agents edit code, use terminal & browser for you

🧪 Gemini CLI & Jules

• Gemini CLI: AI inside your terminal

• Jules: AI “teammate” that fixes bugs, writes tests, prepares PRs

🔥 Firebase AI & Genkit / Firebase Studio

• Add Gemini to your app from Firebase

• Build full-stack AI apps quickly

🧱 TensorFlow, Gemma, AI Edge, MediaPipe

• TensorFlow & Gemma: core ML & open models

• AI Edge & LiteRT: run AI on mobile and devices

• MediaPipe: plug-and-play vision/audio blocks (face, hand, pose, etc.)

📓 Colab & Kaggle

• Colab: free notebooks with GPUs

• Kaggle: datasets, competitions, shared ML projects

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🛡️ Safety & 🔬 Science

🆔 SynthID

• Invisible watermark to mark AI-generated content

• Helps detect images, video, audio, text created by Google AI

🔬 AlphaFold, AlphaCode & SIMA (DeepMind)

• AlphaFold: predicts 3D protein structures

• AlphaCode: AI that solves hard coding problems

• SIMA: AI agent that learns to act inside 3D virtual worlds

These are more research tools, but they show how far Google’s AI goes beyond chatbots.

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🧭 So… Where Should You Start?

Here’s a quick starter map 👇

• 👩‍🏫 Student / Teacher

  • Start with: Gemini, NotebookLM, Lens, AI Overviews

• 👨‍💻 Developer / Techie

  • Start with: Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Code Assist, Colab

• 🚀 Startup / Product Builder

  • Start with: Vertex AI, Conversational Agents, Firebase AI, Vision / Speech / DocAI

• 🧑‍🎨 Creator (design / content / video / music)

  • Start with: Gemini, Nano Banana, Imagen, Veo, Lyria, Photos AI

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💌 Final Note from AI & TI

Google’s AI world looks huge from outside, but once you group things, it’s just a toolbox:

• One main brain: Gemini

• One workspace brain: Gemini in Workspace / Enterprise

• One study brain: NotebookLM

• A bunch of helpers for images, video, code, apps and research

Stay curious, stay ahead.