Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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Gemini: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

Gemini came up in 7 of 89 episodes (8%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 13% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.

7 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

17%May 109 of 5217%Jun 78 of 4610%Jul 57 of 6913%Aug 27 of 5511%Aug 306 of 558%Sep 277 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “Gemini” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 7 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“…to other players including Google and Gemini and XAI etc. But I'm going to go with a a pretty wild card here. I think…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Jan 4 · Watch at 1:02:31 ↗

All-In's 2026 Predictions

“True. I want to ask about your competitors. If you look at the TPU, arguably two out of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini, were trained on TPU. What does that mean for Nvidia going forward? We build a very different thing.”

Dwarkesh Podcast · week ending Apr 12 · Watch at 16:33 ↗

Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?

“…for a long time coherently. But the few things have changed. Google's Gemini models have um are the best at price…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 6:12 ↗

Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…

“Now that people's expectations are increasingly, they ask their AI for stuff. It feels like you should be able to ask your AI, whether that's ChatGPT or Gemini or whether that's Siri or whatever your interface is to AI, it's like,…”

Cheeky Pint · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 1:21:45 ↗

The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash

“That could be open, that could be cloud, that could be that could be Gemini. But and for each of them, I actually use…”

The Tim Ferriss Show · week ending Apr 26 · Watch at 1:20:18 ↗

The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil

“…spend a lot of time talking to Claude chat Gemini you know we uh I think like I'm really…”

How I AI · week ending May 3 · Watch at 25:34 ↗

How a non-technical founder built a $100K ARR meme company | Jason Levin (Memelord CEO)

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“Yeah. There was a there was a demo of a uh Gemini model running like two years ago that was like sped up in post and…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 7:23 ↗

Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EV

“…nobody could even get close to them there was maybe Gemini was just the first version of Gemini had just…”

Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · Watch at 38:49 ↗

Runway’s Bet Beyond Video: World Models, Robotics, and the Neural OS — Anastasis Germanid…

“…advantage. They have a their products, they can tell you, "Hey, go use Gemini." And every time you go search Google. I…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · Watch at 1:02:19 ↗

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

“…pretty satisfied with those. So for a long time we only had like the Gemini enterprise and we were using that and uh…”

How I AI · week ending Sep 6 · Watch at 4:41 ↗

I built a Claude Cowork system that does a week of PM work in a day

“No, it's like people who are like, "Oh, he's acting exactly like a Gemini." It's like people who like say things like…”

My First Million · week ending Aug 23 · Watch at 22:32 ↗

3 low competition businesses with massive demand in America

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
TBPN314
Latent Space28
How I AI14
Lenny's Podcast12
All-In Podcast06
20VC with Harry Stebbings04
The Tim Ferriss Show03
Dwarkesh Podcast02
My First Million01
No Priors01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Gemini” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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