The Google AI Mental Map

Open Google's AI page and you're met with a wall of names — Gemini, Veo, Nano Banana, DeepMind, AI Studio, Antigravity, Flow. Most of that confusion isn't you falling behind — it's Google's own branding leaving research names, product names, and business-unit names tangled together with no clear line between them.

This episode builds a working mental map: what's a research division, what's an actual product, and which one is built for you — sorted by whether you're a consumer, a creator, a developer, or an enterprise, rather than whatever internal codename happened to ship.