“Gemini”: With this AI model, Google wants to trump ChatGPT

In the artificial intelligence race, Google wants to take the lead with its new Gemini language model. The AI ​​system must not only keep up with, but also surpass, the GPT4 language model of competitor OpenAI.

On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke quite bluntly about the Gemini announcement: The change we are currently experiencing with AI is the “most profound in our lifetimes,” it is “much bigger than the move to mobile phones or the Internet before that.”

As a multimodal AI model, Gemini is able to interpret and generalize information from different sources. This included texts, images, audio recordings, videos and programming languages.

What can Gemini do?

Gemini can not only generate texts in a chatbot, but also solve specific problems and make situation-dependent decisions. It can also record information from photos and videos.

Google demonstrated the system with a video chat in which Gemini immediately recognized and correctly classified drawings and hand gestures from its human counterpart.

Who is this for?

Bard will now be available in English in more than 170 countries. However, Google plans to support new languages ​​and locations in the near future.

“We’re bringing Gemini to billions of people through Google products,” announced Google DeepMind head Demis Hassabis.

The Google subsidiary DeepMind was created in April 2023 from the British start-up of the same name, which was acquired in 2014, and Google’s internal AI department.

By integrating the start-up, which previously operated largely independently, Pichai wanted to bundle the AI ​​efforts within the Google Group in order to compete more effectively with OpenAI.

What exactly is being launched?

Google will roll out the new system in three different versions for different products and services: Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro and Gemini Nano.

Twin Ultra is the largest and most powerful model for very complex tasks. This variant is mainly aimed at business customers.

Gemini Pro will focus on a broad audience and, for example, teach the Google Bard chatbot “advanced thinking, planning, understanding and more”. “This is the biggest upgrade for Bard since launch,” said Hassabis.

Twin Nano brings the AI ​​system to the top model of Google’s Pixel smartphones.

In the coming months, Gemini will be available in other Google products and services, such as search, advertising and the Chrome browser.

How is Gemini integrated into Pixel phones?

“The Pixel 8 Pro is the first smartphone with Gemini Nano,” Hassabis announced. For example, the Recorder app can record not only spoken language from a long meeting, a lecture or an interview and convert it into written language in real time.

With the help of Gemini Nano, the pixel can then create a compact summary without any delay.

Pressure from competition

Google has been working on applications based on artificial intelligence for years, but is currently under pressure to reveal more.

A year ago, the startup OpenAI unleashed new competition in the field of artificial intelligence when it made its chatbot ChatGPT public.

The software caused a stir because it can form sentences like a human. Training takes place with enormous amounts of data and estimates, word by word, of how a sentence might proceed. This entails the risk that it may provide completely incorrect information.

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