Google winds down Opal after a year, folding learnings into Gemini skills
jacalulu · x · 2026-10-01
Google Labs is shutting down Opal, its 0→1 experiment that let users customize AI and build their own workflows. After running it for over a year and watching users build unexpected things, the team is folding those learnings into skills in Gemini, framing Opal as a classic "build to learn" experiment.
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