While Everyone Talks About Google’s Flashy GenAI Updates, I’m Geeking Out Over This Quiet Model Garden Drop

The Hype Storm

Over the last few weeks, Google has been shipping GenAI updates like it’s a speed run:

• 🌐 Genie 3 — the most advanced world simulator ever
• 🤔 Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think available to Ultra subs
• 🌍 AlphaEarth — a geospatial model of the entire planet
  🥇 Gemini gold-medal level at the IMO
  🧸 Storybook — books w/art & audio
• 🐙 Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, out of Beta
• 📔 NotebookLM Video Overviews

LinkedIn posts, X threads, YouTube demos — the internet is buzzing. And for good reason: these updates are bold, flashy, and fun.

But Here’s the One Update That Really Caught My Eye

While everyone was watching the fireworks, Google quietly dropped something in Vertex AI Model Garden that made me stop scrolling:

TimesFM 2.0 — a foundation model for time-series forecasting.

It’s not going to generate photorealistic dragons or write you a Shakespearean sonnet.
But if your job involves predicting anything — from retail sales to energy demand to financial markets — this could be your new secret weapon.

The Science: TimesFM in Plain English