The Deep View: Conversations

This is a special episode of The Deep View Conversations podcast, recorded at Google I/O on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. 
AI smart glasses have quietly built momentum over the past several years, promising to put artificial intelligence directly in your line of sight. Now, Google has shown us the final product of its first AI glasses, which appear to have a clear competitive edge. 

Juston Payne, Google's director of product management for XR, joins The Deep View Conversations straight from Google I/O, where the company pulled the curtain back and gave the world a first look at two of the pairs that will lead the collection when they launch in the fall: a pair from Gentle Monster and one from Warby Parker. 

Juston discusses how the AI smartglasses came to be, including the collaboration between Samsung, Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster. In addition to discussing details of the new launch, including design, product choices, functionality, the roadmap, and more, Juston also sheds light on the broader AI glasses market and why people should give them a shot. 

Topics covered:
+ The thought put into the aesthetics and comfort of smart glasses
+ What products will be available for users to purchase at launch
+ How the glasses act as an equivalent of a touchscreen on a phone for interacting with Gemini
+ The computation offloading strategy that leverages the user’s smartphone 
+ The choice to first launch with an audio-only product rather than in-lens displays
+ How Google is approaching privacy concerns with the cameras on the glasses
+ Real-world use cases for AI smart glasses 

If you want to understand how AI glasses are reshaping the way people connect, this conversation will leave you much more knowledgeable about Google's strategy. 

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In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Robert Brooks IV, chief commercial officer at Lambda, to talk about the massive AI infrastructure buildout now underway.

Lambda’s mission is to build supercomputers for superintelligence. But Brooks argues that the story is bigger than GPUs, data centers, and rising demand. It is about why compute is becoming one of the most strategically important resources in the AI economy, and why Lambda believes compute is not a commodity.

The conversation goes deep on Lambda’s vision for democratizing AI, why the company invests in research, and how its experience building physical infrastructure shapes what it can offer AI labs, hyperscalers, enterprises, and researchers.

Topics covered include:
+ Why Lambda thinks “one GPU per person” is achievable
+ The hidden complexity behind modern AI data centers
+ Why compute demand keeps surprising the industry
+ His $40,000 robot experiment and what it taught him about the future of work
+ How AI is changing the way leaders spend their time

If you want to better understand the physical and economic foundations powering the AI boom, this conversation is worth your time.

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Android’s latest AI update is less about flashy demos and more about solving everyday problems.

In this special episode of Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Sabrina Ortiz sits down with Mindy Brooks, VP of Product Management for Google Android, for an exclusive interview on Gemini Intelligence for Android.

Brooks explains why Google is focusing its Android AI strategy on saving users small amounts of time across daily tasks. The conversation explores how Android is evolving from an operating system into a more personalized, context-aware "intelligence system" powered by Gemini.

Topics covered include:
+ Rambler for Gboard, Google’s new AI-powered voice dictation system to rival Wispr Flow
+ The expansion of Task Automation across more apps
+ How Create My Widget uses AI to generate custom widgets on demand
+ How Intelligent Autofill is powered by Gemini's Personal Intelligence
+ The Android AI feature Brooks personally uses the most

If you want to understand where mobile AI is headed next, and why Google believes utility matters more than spectacle, this conversation breaks it down.

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What happens when AI moves from cloud-only to running everywhere, including on your laptop, your phone, and other devices around you?

In this episode of Deep View Conversations, senior reporter Sabrina Ortiz sits down with Olena Zhu, who leads AI for the client computing group at Intel, to explore one of the biggest shifts underway in AI: the move toward accessible, affordable, and privacy-first AI systems.

Zhu explains why the economics and infrastructure demands of cloud-only AI may not scale indefinitely, and why on-device AI could become a critical part of the industry's future. She also reflects on the evolution from traditional AI systems to LLMs and now to agentic AI, and why this wave feels fundamentally different from the hype cycles that came before it.

The conversation also dives into how AI is changing the way people work, learn, and experiment, including the surprising mindset Zhu believes helps people get the most value from AI tools today.

Topics covered include:
+ Why cloud-only AI has limits
+ The future of on-device and edge AI
+ AI affordability, energy use, and data sovereignty
+ How agentic AI changed Zhu’s workflow
+ Why experimentation matters more than expertise
+ Intel’s vision for privacy-first AI systems
+ The hidden infrastructure challenge behind AI growth
+ Why AI adoption may depend on trust and accessibility

If you're concerned about the affordability, accessibility, and privacy of AI, you don't want to miss this episode.

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In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Alex Rinke, co-founder and co-CEO of Celonis, to unpack one of the most overlooked truths in enterprise AI.

Rinke and his co-founders started Celonis 15 years ago in Munich with just $15,000. What followed was a grind, including thousands of handwritten letters to land early customers, and a steady evolution from process simulation to what is now known as process intelligence.

Today, Celonis works with roughly half of the world’s 200 largest companies. Its platform acts like an MRI for the enterprise, creating a digital twin of how work actually happens across fragmented systems.

Rinke’s core argument is simple and provocative: there is no enterprise AI without process intelligence. Companies that deploy agents without understanding their underlying processes risk automating inefficiency at scale.

We also cover:
+ How Celonis re-engineered itself for the AI era
+ What the co-CEO model works like in practice and why it can be a competitive advantage
+ How hiring is changing inside AI-native companies
+ The tools Rinke uses to run his own workflow

If you want to understand where AI actually delivers results inside large organizations, don't sleep on this conversation.
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