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Welcome to the Friday edition of our newsletter. We spend Friday’s going deeper into tools and trends related to generative AI (and Tuesdays sharing news updates). This week we’re giving a sneak peak of Monday’s AI Lunch Club (sign up here)

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🍔 FREE AI Lunch Club events

Our AI Lunch Club series returns this spring with four FREE virtual events to help you better understand generative AI tools. Click each link to get more info and to register:

• Feb. 16 - Google Gemini, Nano Banana and NotebookLM

• Feb. 23 - Building Microsoft Copilot Agents

• March 4 - Vibe coding with Claude, ChatGPT and Lovable

AL Lunch Club events are offered free thanks to a sponsorship from technology and management consultancy, Lean TECHniques.

Overview of Gemini Tools

On Monday, Feb. 16, we’ll be holding our next AI Lunch Club session, where we’ll be serving up an overview of Google Gemini tools. Here’s a preview of what we’re planning to cover in the session.

Gemini LLMs

Gemini is Google’s family of large language models built to help you write, research, plan, code, and reason through complex problems. Different versions fit different needs: Flash for speed, Pro for everyday work, and Deep Think for deeper analysis.

It also includes tools like Deep Research, Canvas for drafting and editing, and Gems so you can create custom AI assistants tailored to your specific tasks or roles.

Feature you won’t want to miss: Build your own “Gem” that acts like a personal assistant trained to think and write the way you do.

Google Workspace

Gemini is built directly into Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Meet, and Chat, bringing AI help into the tools you already use every day.

Draft emails, summarize meetings, generate slides, analyze spreadsheets, and turn rough notes into polished content, all without leaving your workflow.

Feature you won’t want to miss: Instantly turn a meeting transcript or brainstorm into a clean summary, action plan, or slide deck.

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NotebookLM

NotebookLM is best described as a source-grounded AI research assistant or "thinking partner."

While traditional AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini are designed to pull from the entire internet to answer questions, NotebookLM is designed to focus exclusively on the specific information you give it - PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, images, etc.

Then use NotebookLM to turn those files into slides, video overviews, infographics and more.

Feature you won’t want to miss: Use Notebook LM to create a podcast-style, conversational AI audio summary of any file.

🍌 Nano Banana

Nano Banana takes AI image generation to a new level, helping you visualize any idea and design anything - from prototypes, to representing data as infographics, to turning handwritten notes into diagrams.

Features include a accurate text rendering, consistent characters across different scenes and accurate infographics and diagrams.

Feature you won’t want to miss: We’ll show you how to turn an old family recipe into a comic strip explaining how it’s made.

Veo

Veo is Gemini’s state-of-the-art generative video model. It creates high-fidelity, 1080p video content that adheres closely to your creative vision.

For example, describe a scene in natural language, and Veo will generate a video based on that prompt. It also natively generates synchronized audio to match the action in the video.

Feature you won’t want to miss: We’ll demo how far AI video has come in just the last year.

Sign up for Monday’s AI Lunch Club to learn more. The free virtual event starts at noon Central time. If you can’t make it but want to get the slides, fill out this form.