Google Lens

Lenny's Podcast · Oct 10

Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein

Lens visual searches grow 70% year over year and are already in the billions. People photograph shoes, homework or a bookshelf and ask follow-up questions.

Lenny's Podcast · May 18

Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

Day one was a plant detection tool, but by day 15 the tech looked best at translating foreign languages. It rode deep learning plus people photographing everything, making the camera a keyboard for the real world.

Tips

• Look for two of three inflection points before starting a zero-to-one product▶ 41:56Google Lens had deep learning plus the rise of photos taken of everything. Robinhood had phones as the main device plus zero fees. Search had the second price auction and CPCs.
• Solve the problem before you scale it▶ 38:25Google Lens went from a plant detection idea on day one to foreign language translation by day 15, once the tech proved good at that.