Foundation Models & First-Party Releases

Executive summary Key developments (all reported 2026-07-16): Google announced new consumer and creator-facing features that embed its Gemini Omni capability and personal avatars into Google Vids and expand secure app connections in Search’s AI Mode [1][2]. Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published a joint approach to bioresilience in AI models [3]. OpenAI is being intensively…