Google's I/O 2024 developer keynote just laid out a new, more powerful, and integrated stack for building AI products. The key takeaway isn't just one model or tool, but a cohesive set of components—from a frontier model with a massive context window to a production-ready open source model and a backend framework to wire it all together. For builders, this means it's time to re-evaluate your stack.

a 2m token context window changes the game

The headline feature for many will be Gemini 1.5 Pro entering public preview with a 2 million token context window. This isn't an incremental update. A context window of this size allows an application to reason over entire codebases, multiple large documents, or long videos in a single pass.…