Google has begun bringing a native understanding of video, audio and photos to its Bard AI chatbot with a new model called Gemini. Google Pixel 8 phone owners will be among the first to tap into its new artificial intelligence abilities. The first incarnations of the new technology arrived Wednesday in dozens of countries through Google Bard's Gemini update, but only in English. It can provide text-based chat abilities that Google says improves A abilities in complex tasks like summarizing documents, reasoning and writing programming code. The bigger change with...

Google launched a pared-down version of what it calls its “largest and most capable” AI model, Gemini, in its AI chatbot Bard on Wednesday, while the most advanced version of Gemini is expected in 2024—adding fuel to the race among tech giants to lead AI development. Gemini is multimodal, meaning it can recognize and understand different types of information such as text, code, audio, image and video at the same time, Google said. The first version of Gemini comes in three sizes: Gemini Ultra, for “highly complex tasks,” Gemini Pro,...

Google’s most anticipated large language model, Gemini, has been officially announced today. During a virtual press conference, the leaders from Google DeepMind and Google Cloud showcased the capabilities of the new LLM while also sharing the roadmap. Initially announced at Google I/O 2023 by Sundar Pichai, Gemini is the most capable LLM that succeeds PaLM 2, the current foundation model from Google. It is one of the first language models to score over 90% on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding, or MMLU benchmark, which covers 57 subjects across STEM, the...

Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that’s likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils. The rollout will unfold in phases, with less sophisticated versions of Gemini called “Nano” and “Pro” being immediately incorporated into Google’s AI-powered and its Pixel 8 Pro smartphone. With Gemini providing a helping hand, Google promises Bard will become more intuitive and better at tasks that involve planning. On the Pixel 8 Pro,...

The version of Gemini launching this week, Gemini Pro, is essentially a lightweight offshoot of a more powerful, capable Gemini model set to arrive… sometime next year. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Yesterday in a virtual press briefing, members of the Google DeepMind team — the driving force behind Gemini, alongside Google Research — gave a high-level overview of Gemini (technically “Gemini 1.0”) and its capabilities. Gemini, as it turns out, is actually a family of AI models — not just one. It comes in three flavors: • Gemini...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. Google is launching what it considers its largest and most capable artificial intelligence model Wednesday as pressure mounts on the company to answer how it'll monetize AI. The large language model Gemini will include a suite of three different sizes: Gemini Ultra, its largest, most capable category; Gemini Pro, which...

Alongside its Gemini generative AI model, Google this morning took the wraps off of AlphaCode 2, an improved version of the code-generating AlphaCode introduced by Google’s DeepMind lab roughly a year ago. AlphaCode 2 is in fact powered by Gemini, or at least some variant of it (Gemini Pro) fine-tuned on coding contest data. And it’s far more capable than its predecessor, Google says — at least on one benchmark. In a subset of programming competitions hosted on Codeforces, a platform for programming contests, AlphaCode 2 — coding in languages...