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Blogs / Educational Bytes / Google Gemini: Google's Most Advanced AI Model
Ananya Dasgupta
02 Jan 2024
Google Gemini: Google's Most Advanced AI Model
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Google Gemini is the first model of multimode artificial intelligence (AI) large language models that have an understanding of language, audio, code, and videos. Google Gemini emerged as a significant outcome of extensive collaborative efforts between Google Researchers, Google’s DeepMind unit, and its parent company, Alphabet.
In the present day, it is undoubtedly in the word-of-mouth amongst Tech Experts and Reviewers. Enterprises and businesses across various industries have been waiting for months for its release.
Now that it has rolled out, you must be keen to know about this advanced AI innovation and its perks and pixels. That’s exactly what we shall talk about in this blog! So, stay tuned till the end.
What Is Google Gemini? Who Were The Big Brains Behind Its Development?
The latest group of powerful multimodal AI LLM (large language model) brought about by Google is what we call Google Gemini. It’s a unique system built following the diverse ways people engage, interact and perceive the surrounding world. Therefore, Gemini can not just acknowledge texts. But it can also interpret and reason complex codes, videos, images, and all other multimodal data. Indeed, it’s not a mere chatbot but the mastermind that allows a chatbot and other generative tools to function seamlessly across various verticals.
Google Gemini emerged as a significant outcome of extensive collaborative efforts between Google Researchers, Google’s DeepMind unit, and its parent company, Alphabet. Demis Hassabis, the Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, says that – it’s the “most flexible model” in recent times that can work efficiently on any mobile device and data center and holds advanced abilities to boost the process of scaling AI functionalities.
Are There Many Versions of Google Gemini?
To date, there is only one version of Google Gemini out in the market for exploration: Gemini 1.0. However, within this particular version itself, three different sizes stand optimized. Here they go!
Gemini Nano
This Google Gemini model is meant for several on-device activities requiring proficient AI processing but without the need for any external server, be it for summarizing a longer text or suggesting related queries. It can work on any smartphone and more efficiently on Google Pixel 8 Pro because it’s already embedded within this device!
Gemini Pro
Meant for enhanced AI scalability across multiple tasks, the Google Gemini Pro model operates on Google’s server. It has remarkably made its way into Google Bard, powering the chatbot to comprehend complex questions and deliver a faster response. Since December 2023, this model has also been integrated into Google’s AI Studio, AlphaCode 2, and Cloud Vertex AI.
Gemini Ultra
This model of Google Gemini, built for highly complicated tasks, is the most powerful and efficient of the lot. Although it’s in the testing phase and yet to showcase its caliber in front of the public eye, Google claims that Gemini Ultra is a technological boon ready to take the field of industry-related research and development to the next level.
How Can Google Gemini Serve You?
No wonder Google Gemini is capable of performing myriads of tasks across various modalities. In other words, it can manage numerous forms of inputs and outputs. How? Discover below!
Text Summarization, Translation, and Curation
First and foremost, Google Gemini can summarize texts from diverse data sets, translate them into nearly a hundred different languages, and curate applicable content based on the prompts you give. In fact, by availing of this model, users can derive texts from a question-and-answer type conversational AI interface.
All Video and Audio Processing Tasks
The next way Google Gemini can serve you is by recognizing speech in around a hundred international languages and further translating them into an appropriate description. Likewise, it can also read and process various video clips, framing suitable answers to your queries.
Analysis and Generation of Diverse Codes
Whether in Python, C/C++, JavaScript, SQL, Go, Swift, R, or TypeScript, Google Gemini can analyze and subsequently generate all popular coding languages! They can certainly offer developers a breakthrough for complex high-level codes.
Image Recognition and Captioning
Another notable way Google Gemini can serve is by deciphering images and thereby captioning them or prompting answers to the user’s questions. It can recognize a vast array of visuals, from shapes, charts, and diagrams to icons, human representations, and caricatures.
Cross-Modal Reasoning
Furthermore, Google Gemini’s key strength lies in cross-modal reasoning. By this, I mean it can examine and determine the output for a particular prompt by mixing different types of data sets.
How Can You Use Google Gemini?
Well, the use of Google Gemini is likely to vary as per the version or size type you intend to avail of! Of course, the easiest way to explore and leverage its state-of-the-art capabilities is via Google Bard, the famous conversational AI of today!
However, if you’re a Pixel 8 pro owner, you can identify its benefits on the Gboard keyboard or even for your WhatsApp conversation. In the case of the latter, whenever someone texts you, a few suggestive replies shall pop up on your screen, and you can effortlessly use it to send to your respective contact. Besides, the recorder app available on this device utilizes the power of Gemini to abstract recorded conversations, and that too, without any internet connectivity.
On the other hand, if you’re an app developer looking to build a prototype through the power of Google Gemini, the web-based tool in Google AI Studio must be your call! You can even see hints of Gemini power in the Google Search Engine. This is because Google tends to use it to offer users improved search generative experiences.
Now, to sum up, I would like to add that – although Google Gemini stands designed with safety and responsibility to the core, it has yet to unleash its complete potential. Perhaps you may have to wait a little longer to experience its utmost efficiency across various platforms and fetch the robust AI of your imagination that can dramatically change everything around you.