🧙🏼 ChatGPT gets live video + screen sharing

Howdy wizards,

In case you missed it, iOS 18.2 with Apple Intelligence is officially out – including the ChatGPT integration in Siri. Owners of a relatively-new iPhone, iPad, and Mac can upgrade and start using it.

Here’s what’s brewing in AI today.

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1. ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode gets vision

OpenAI is bringing live video + screensharing to Advanced Voice Mode. This means you can share real-time visual context with ChatGPT to make it more useful.

• The live video functionality lets you share context from your back or front camera on your phone in real-time with ChatGPT. Here’s a demo of using it to learn how to make pour-over coffee.

• The screenshare functionality lets you broadcast your phone’s screen to ChatGPT while you’re using Advanced Voice mode. Here’s a demo of using it to help respond to a message.

Plus & Pro users will have access within the week in the ChatGPT mobile app – with the exception of EU users which will launch “as soon as we can”.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ This will open new use cases for ChatGPT in real-time: think guided tasks, technical support, “explain what you see”, and similar.

I’m equally if not more excited about screen-sharing as I am about live video, though. And once it gets desktop support? That will be powerful for work.

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2. Google launches Gemini 2.0

OpenAI weren’t the only ones with holiday surprises this week: Google launched Gemini 2.0 yesterday – its new flagship AI model designed for the “agentic era.”

• Gemini 2.0 Flash is both better and cheaper than it’s bigger, older brother Gemini 1.5 Pro. It also has real-time capabilities — text, voice, video, and even screen-sharing — all at once. It can also generate images, handle multiple languages in audio output, and process text, code, images, and video seamlessly.

• A new Multimodal Live API allows Gemini to do real-time video and screen sharing, as well as real-time audio. You test it yourself inside AI studio.

• Available in Gemini Advanced, Deep Research is an agentic feature that can do powerful reasoning; it can do more sophisticated problem-solving and offers better support for complex, long-context queries. It can also gather info from around the web, like scanning dozens of websites.

If you want to see it in action, this tweet has demos of people using the new Gemini – including the screen-sharing features.

Google also let us in on a sneak peak on its work on AI agents:

• Project Mariner: An early prototype of a browser-based agent that can complete tasks. Sounds like an agentic assistant similar to Claude’s Computer Use and what OpenAI might also launch soon.

• Project Astra: A prototype for a general assistant with better memory, tool access (can use Google Search, Lens and Maps), and conversational abilities.

• Jules: Currently only available to a group of early testers, Jules is an experimental code agent that integrates directly into Github and can assist developers directly in their workflow.

• Agents in Games: Google is developing new gaming-focused agents that understand and guide gameplay in real time.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ With Google’s Multimodal Live API, you can actually share your desktop screen with Gemini. Could be just me but I generally don’t use Gemini as I feel its less reliable and helpful than ChatGPT and Claude, but the feature itself is pretty cool.

Also, with Project Mariner, we now have OpenAI, Anthropic—and Google—openly going big on browser-based agentic capabilities, albeit none have launched this feature for the masses yet. That’s likely to change in the near future, though, with agents expected to be the thing in AI for 2025.

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