The tech giant announced the rebranding of its AI chatbot Bard to Gemini and introduced both free and paid mobile applications in the United States.
Google, the tech giant, has officially rebranded its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard to Gemini, alongside launching a mobile app in the United States.
Sissie Hsiao, Google Assistant and Bard’s vice president and general manager, revealed on Feb. 8 that the company’s 11-month-old AI chatbot has officially taken on the same name as its multimodal large language model.
Gemini stands as Google’s pinnacle large language AI model (LLM), referred to as Ultra 1.0. The company asserts that this AI excels in intricate tasks such as coding, logical reasoning, nuanced instruction following, and collaborative engagement in creative projects.
The company’s blog post states that Gemini Advanced, the premium iteration of the chatbot, supports extended, more comprehensive conversations and enhances understanding of context from earlier prompts. It’s designed to act as a personal tutor, assist with complex coding challenges, and facilitate brainstorming for creative endeavors.
Gemini Advanced can be accessed via the Google One AI Premium subscription, priced at $20 per month. It is set to integrate into various Google services, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The newly launched mobile app for Gemini is available on Android and Apple iOS in the United States since Feb. 8, with plans to expand to more locations and languages in the near future.
Gemini’s mobile version excels in generating photo captions, providing article-related answers, making calls, managing smart home devices, and strives to serve as a conversational, multimodal AI assistant.
“Hsiao mentioned, ‘We’re working with local regulators to make sure that we’re abiding by local regime requirements before we can expand.’ In a distinct blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai asserted that the technology powering Gemini Advanced is poised to eventually outperform even the most intelligent individuals when addressing a multitude of intricate subjects.”
The Ultra 1.0, the largest model, is the inaugural AI to surpass human experts in Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU), incorporating a diverse range of 57 subjects spanning math, physics, history, law, medicine, and ethics.
Gemini encounters formidable competition as Microsoft-backed OpenAI introduced the initial version of ChatGPT in November 2022 and later enhanced it with GPT-4 in March 2023.
When Gemini was unveiled in December, Google asserted that its Ultra version attained “state-of-the-art performance” in 30 out of 32 academic benchmarks commonly employed in large language model development.
On Feb. 8, reports emerged that Google is participating in an initiative to create “nutrition labels” for digital content, aimed at disclosing how the content was produced or modified, including the use of AI.
Collaborating with Adobe, BBC, Microsoft, Sony, and other partners, the company plans to establish technical standards for digital credentials through the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
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