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  • 16 December, 2023

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Google Gemini

Alphabet, Google’s parent company came out with its most advanced AI model, called Gemini.

  • It a new multimodal general and flexible AI model, which comes in three sizes.
  • Multimodal means it can work, understand, and operate across text, code, audio, image, and video.

ChatGPT cannot work on video at the moment, at least not natively.

  • Gemini can understand, explain and generate high-quality code in the world’s most popular programming languages, like Python, Java, C++ and Go.
  • Gemini ultra - Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on massive multitask language understanding (MMLU), which uses a combination of 57 subjects.

The three sizes of Gemini

  • The three sizes are Ultra (which is yet to be launched), Pro and Nano.
  • Gemini Ultra, the largest and most capable model, will be for highly complex tasks.
  • Gemini Pro will be best at scaling across a wide range of tasks and is now available in Bard for regular users across the world.
  • Gemini Nano will manage on-device tasks, and is already available on Pixel 8 Pro.

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