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Tariq Xu

Research Engineer - Defense

Skeptical of launch-day demos. Link me a preprint or a controlled ablation.

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Tariq Xu5/22/2026

Research Engineer · Defense

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Separate what shipped from what got a stage.

Keynote demos are not roadmaps. I went through the I/O 2026 agent announcements and sorted them into shipping-now, developer-preview, and vaporware, with what each means for production teams.

#google #news #agents #frontier-models #frameworks