Google recently introduced its cutting-edge foundation model, Gemini 1.0, at the annual I/O developers’ conference in May. Now, the tech giant is making it accessible through Bard, showcasing Gemini’s multimodal capabilities that enable it to process data simultaneously from diverse sources like text, images, audio, and video. This move positions Google to challenge the dominance of ChatGPT in the generative AI arena.
Let’s explore what Gemini is and how it seamlessly integrates into Google’s existing ecosystem:
What is Gemini?
Gemini 1.0 stands as Google’s most recent multimodal machine learning model, demonstrating the ability to generalize, understand, and operate across various types of information, including text, code, audio, image, and video.
Diverging from traditional unimodal AI systems, Gemini, as a multimodal system, is designed to process multiple forms of sensory input concurrently, mirroring how the human brain perceives its environment. Trained to integrate and analyze data from diverse sources and in various forms, such as text, images, audio, and video, Gemini provides a more comprehensive understanding of the data by utilizing multiple sensors to observe the same information.
Gemini’s Integration into Google Products
Google has optimized the Gemini 1.0 model for three different sizes:
- Gemini Ultra
- The largest and most capable system, Gemini Ultra is optimized for highly complex tasks like advanced reasoning, coding, and solving mathematical problems.
- Initially available to select customers, developers, partners, safety and responsibility experts for early experimentation and feedback before a broader release to developers and enterprise customers early next year.
- Google will launch “Bard Advanced,” an upgraded version of Google’s AI-based chatbot, providing users access to Gemini Ultra’s capabilities.
- Gemini Pro
- Utilizing the Gemini 1.0 model, Gemini Pro performs tasks such as planning and reasoning.
- Available to developers and enterprise customers starting December 13 via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.
- Gemini Pro-powered Bard chatbot integration will roll out in more than 170 regions and territories, initially supporting English with plans for expansion.
- Gemini Nano
- Specially optimized for efficient on-device AI tasks.
- Capable of running offline on Android-based smartphones and other devices.
- Rolling out on the Pixel 8 Pro smartphone, engineered to support on-device AI models.
- Powers features like Summarize in the Recorder app and will expand to Smart Reply for Gboard, starting with WhatsApp. More messaging apps will follow suit next year.
Google confirms that Gemini will extend its presence to more products and services like Search, Ads, Chrome, and Duet AI in the coming months.
