“Google Lens, one of the fastest growing products out there.”
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Google Lens
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“where she worked on Google Lens, search, shopping, augmented reality, AI assistant, and a lot more.”
“this is what we kind of like looked at in Google lens back back then”
“something I already do kind of through a bunch of duct-taped methods of Google image search, Google Lens.”
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