How Google Labs Builds AI Products: Lessons from Google Labs' Kelly Schaefer
Deployed: The AI Product PodcastShow Notes
On this episode of Deployed, we talk with Kelly Schaefer, a Product Director at Google Labs and who’s been recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in AI. Kelly has led a portfolio of experimental AI products like NotebookLM and the Jules coding agent. The Google Labs team helps turn DeepMind research into real products that can work at Google scale. She shares what actually works when shipping AI features, from how her teams use evals to drive product quality, to why speed matters more than pe...
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