Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JNAY)
Gemini is still new -and it's already getting an upgrade. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor. Google is launching Gemini 1.5 today and making it available to developers and enterprise users ahead of a full consumer rollout coming soon. The company has made clear that it is all in on Gemini as a business tool, a personal assistant, and everything in between, and it's pushing hard on that plan.
There are a lot of improvements in Gemini 1.5: Gemini 1.5 Pro, the general-purpose model in Google's system, is apparently on par with the high-end Gemini Ultra that the company only recently launched, and it bested Gemini 1.0 Pro on 87 percent of benchmark tests. It was...