Google launches Gemini—a powerful AI model it says can surpass GPT-4
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On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini, a multimodal AI model family it hopes will rival OpenAI's GPT-4, which powers the paid version of ChatGPT. Google claims that the largest version of Gemini exceeds "current state-of-the-art results on 30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks used in large language model (LLM) research and development." It's a follow-up to PaLM 2, an earlier AI model that Google hoped would match GPT-4 in capability.
A specially tuned English version of its mid-level Gemini model is available now in over 170 countries as part of the Google Bard chatbot-although not in the EU or the UK due to potential regulation issues.
Like GPT-4, Gemini can handle multiple types (or "modes") of input, making it multimodal. That means it can process text, code, images, and even audio. The goal is to make a type of artificial intelligence that can accurately solve problems, give advice, and answer questions in various fields-from the mundane to the scientific. Google says this will power a new era in computing, and it hopes to tightly integrate the technology into its products.