Google announces Gemini, its new multimodal AI model now available at Bard

Today Google unveiled Gemini, its new “bigger and more capable” artificial intelligence model. It is built from the start to be multimodal and therefore can generalize and understand different types of information (text, images, audio, video and code) at the same time. This allows him to better analyze nuances and better answer questions related to complicated topics. Therefore, it is particularly useful for explaining reasoning in complex topics such as mathematics and physics.

It comes in three “sizes”: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. Ultra is “the largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks,” Pro is the “best model to accommodate a wide range of tasks,” while Nano is the “most efficient model for on-device tasks.”

Gemini Ultra can understand, explain and generate high-quality code in Python, Java, C++ and Go. It can work across languages ​​and reason about complex information. It excels in several coding benchmarks, including HumanEval and Natural2Code, Google’s internal dataset, which uses author-generated sources instead of web-based information.

Google’s Bard AI now uses a “refined version” of Gemini Pro, whatever that means. This should provide “more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding, and more,” Google says. Will it make it better than ChatGPT? Your guess is as good as ours, but Google would definitely want you to think so.

In fact, it boasts that the Gemini Pro outperformed GPT-3.5 in six of the eight benchmarks run. Additionally, Google ran some blind evaluations with third-party evaluators and found that “Bard is now the preferred free chatbot over leading alternatives.” No, we don’t even know what “alternatives” Google is talking about, because it didn’t name them.

Anyway, today you can try Bard with Gemini Pro for English text instructions in 170 territories but not in Europe (which will be available soon), while early next year Gemini Ultra will be ported to “a new Bard Advanced experience.”

But wait, there’s more! The Pixel 8 Pro is, surprisingly, the first smartphone “designed for Gemini Nano,” whatever that means. And yes, you read that right: only the Pixel 8 Pro, not the Pixel 8 as well. As it turns out, the Pros’ Summary in Recorder and Smart Reply features in Gboard already use the Gemini Nano.

The company is also “starting to experiment with Gemini in Search,” making the experience faster. And, “over the next few months,” Gemini will power features in more Google products and services, “such as Ads, Chrome, and Duet AI.”