Intelligence is Getting MORE Expensive (Google I/O 2026, with Sam Witteveen)

Checkout OutSkills for their first Claude-Athon: https://links.outskill.com/PROEN I sat down with Sam Witteveen at Google I/O 2026 to break down everything that shipped and the bigger industry trend hiding underneath it. Sam plants a flag early: the era of "bigger models" is ending, and products are now where the action is. We go through Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark, Antigravity 2.0, ADK, Gemma 4, and the trend most people are missing; the rise of RL environments and harness engineering as the real moat. Sam Witteveen: https://www.youtube.com/@samwitteveenai Sam on X: https://twitter.com/Sam_Witteveen LINKS: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/sundar-pichai-io-2026/ https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-io-2026-news/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-introduces-gemini-spark-a-24-7-agentic-assistant-with-gmail-integration/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-launches-antigravity-2-0-with-an-updated-desktop-app-and-cli-tool-at-io-2026/ https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/ https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/the-ai-scaffolding-layer-is-collapsing-llamaindexs-ceo-explains-what-survives https://factory.ai/ https://adk.dev/ https://github.com/nousresearch/hermes-agent https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24621 https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-05-12/google-backed-isomorphic-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-driven-drug-discovery My voice to text App: whryte.com Website: https://engineerprompt.ai/ RAG Beyond Basics Course: https://prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0 Let's Connect: 🦾 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/t4eYQRUcXB ☕ Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/promptengineering |🔴 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PromptEngineering 💼Consulting: https://calendly.com/engineerprompt/consulting-call 📧 Business Contact: [email protected] Become Member: http://tinyurl.com/y5h28s6h 💻 Pre-configured localGPT VM: https://bit.ly/localGPT (use Code: PromptEngineering for 50% off). Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0 00:00 Models to Products Shift 04:38 Acquisition Signals from Usage 05:54 Gemini Flash 3 5 Impressions 08:35 Pricing and Token Economics 11:08 RL Environments and Training 11:32 Sponsor Break Claudathon 15:06 Frameworks to Harness Engineering 18:39 Local Models Catch Up 27:34 Gemini Flash Token Costs 34:43 Who Is Winning Race