Short answer: Jordan Metzner says AI Studio puts many models in one UI: Gemini Pro with Google search for research, Nano Banana for images, Lyria 3 Pro and clip preview for music, plus video, a live voice mode and screen sharing.
Watch this answer from Episode 38 (starts at 10:31) · Episode 38 notes and transcript
From Episode 38: We Built an AI Tool That Replaced a Week of Work, starting at 10:31.
Sam Nadler [10:31]: Cool. Alright. And transitioning a little bit is the Google AI Studio. I know you and I are both, like, huge fans. Do you wanna walk me through anything you've built in Google or how you use Google AI Studio and just, tell me show me a few things you've built.
Jordan Metzner [11:05]: Yeah. Let's jump into it. Yeah. So the website's just ai.studio. I think it resolves to something like aistudio.google.com. You might have to set it up with, an API key so you can pay for your use. It's a little complicated. But once you get it all set up, the reason I like it a lot is that it has a lot of different tools and features kind of all built into the same, like, standardized UI. So, what's cool is over here, can kind of pick your models. So, if I wanted to do something, really quickly, let's just say, like, what is two plus two, I'll get just like a regular chatbot, and it'll it'll respond fine. That's cool, whatever. But if I wanna do deeper research, I can kinda go here and go to, like, Gemini Pro, and then I can, you know, have it do some research. I can add some tools. Like, I can upload some stuff or I can choose to turn on Google search. So kinda like ChatGPT esque features, I think, which might be like, okay.
Jordan Metzner [11:58]: That's that's cool. And then but if you go back a little bit and kinda go back to here, what's cool is you can also do, like, image generation with Nano Banana. So if you go over here, you see, like, Nano Banana is now my selected model, and, make me a clay figure, a black lab dog at the park eating a hot dog. And then, it should basically generate that. So now we've got, like, a Nano Banana in here with all of this, like, preferences that you can kinda come out of with this thing. You can add on Google search. You can add on image search, all these types of things. And again, we're, like, still within, like, the same setting of this, like, AI studio.
Sam Nadler [12:38]: Yeah. Have you used their new music model? I know you and I have both played around a lot with Suno, but I have not used the Google I think it's called Lyria, if I'm not mistaken.
Jordan Metzner [12:50]: Yeah. Lyria. Yeah. So again, this is like another cool thing. So, like, they drop a new model. It's easily available here. This is Lyria three Pro and Lyria clip preview. So clip preview will do thirty second out clips, and then Lyria Pro will do longer than that. I guess, like, the interest of the show, let's just do clip preview. So this is like a really long thing, but, let's just say, like, write a reggae song about the Built This Week Podcast on YouTube. How's that? So that should let us go generate. So this one, again, this is the Lyria Pro preview. So I think this one's the full one. Maybe we'll get a full song out of here. And then just to jump back here, we got the dog with the hot dog in his mouth off of the image generation. And, again, I don't know how long this will take, but hopefully just a little bit. But, yeah, just going back to kind of like all these some of these really cool features inside the studio. You can also go here and do video, so you can do that. You can do more audio features as well like we talked about.
Jordan Metzner [13:50]: There's also a live feature where you can talk to Google. And then I also has this other cool feature that I actually really like a lot where you can share your screen. So if you need help with certain features or you're trying to build a website or something like that, you can kinda go here, share the screen issue, and get Gemini to help you there as well. Alright. Alright. That's enough. It's a fun little tool, and I think it just shows kind of like the diversity of kind of the Google tools that you have at your diversity at your availability. And
