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Nathan Labenz: uncertainty

20 May 2026 The Cognitive Revolution The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

“Is it going to be available via the API and is it going to be I've noticed with, I mean, Gemini's been the only API that's accepted video for a while now, but I don't know exactly how it works under the hood, obviously, but I do feel that it's sort of kind of down-sampled, or maybe there's like frames taken out of it historically.”

— Nathan Labenz

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Nathan Labenz
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20 May 2026
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The Cognitive Revolution

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…You know, I love that you're saying that, because that is our tagline for it. And I didn't even have to say it. Great. And by that, I mean that there's a deep integration between language and reasoning and pixel space understanding. I have that kind of vision in my head from the nano banana launch of like, here's a woman and here's like her breakfast and a cup of coffee and now they're all in one image and they all look like they did before. And clearly that's not something that was done through a lossy language intermediary. The model understands images. So we're going to see that now, I guess, for video. That sounds cool. Is it going to be available via the API and is it going to be I've noticed with, I mean, Gemini's been the only API that's accepted video for a while now, but I don't know exactly how it works under the hood, obviously, but I do feel that it's sort of kind of down-sampled, or maybe there's like frames taken out of it historically. Is this going to be a... There's an FPS parameter if you want. You can change how many, but it does down-sample the number of frames, but you can control it.…

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