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I added up everything Google gives developers for free after I/O 2026. It's kind of absurd (opens in new tab)

This is a submission for the I added up everything Google gives developers for free after I/O 2026. It's kind of absurd. Most of the I/O 2026 coverage is about whether AI is coming for our jobs. I went looking for something more practical and, honestly, more fun: how much can you actually build without paying Google a cent? I expected "a free trial and then a paywall." What I found, after poking around AI Studio and the docs, is that you can build a genuinely real AI app — multimodal, grounde...

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