Gemini Ultra is claimed to be the most sophisticated AI platform yet
Developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence making news headlines is now increasingly becoming a routine affair with top tech firms trying to outsmart one another. Even as the buzz on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s dramatic exit and return to the organisation is yet to sink in fully, the next big AI news has broken with Google launching its latest AI platform Gemini, claimed to be much bigger and better than even OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai claims that Gemini is ‘their most capable and general model yet with state-of-the-art performance across many leading benchmarks.’ “Our first version, Gemini 1.0, is optimized for different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano. These are the first models of the Gemini era and the first realization of the vision we had when we formed Google DeepMind earlier this year. This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company. I’m genuinely excited for what’s ahead, and for the opportunities Gemini will unlock for people everywhere,” states Pichai in a release.
“Gemini is our most capable and general model yet with state-of-the-art performance across many leading benchmarks.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Introducing Gemini, Demis Hassabis, CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind, says the promise of a world responsibly empowered by AI continues to drive their work at Google DeepMind. “Gemini is the result of large-scale collaborative efforts by teams across Google, including our colleagues at Google Research. It was built from the ground up to be multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video,” he adds.
“Gemini was built from the ground up to be multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video.”
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
Gemini 1.0 is now rolling out across a range of products and platforms as Gemini Pro in Google products. Starting immediately, Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro for more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding and more. It will be available in English in more than 170 countries and territories, and Google plans to expand to different modalities and support new languages and locations in the near future. Gemini will also be brought to Pixel 8 Pro, the first smart phone to run Gemini Nano, powering new features like Summarize in the Recorder app and rolling out in Smart Reply in Gboard, starting with WhatsApp. In the coming months, Gemini will be available in more of our products and services like Search, Ads, Chrome and Duet AI.
Gemini 1.0 is optimised for three different sizes:
Gemini Ultra — Google’s largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks.
Gemini Pro — the best model for scaling across a wide range of tasks.
Gemini Nano — the most efficient model for on-device tasks.
According to Google officials, Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU (massive multitask language understanding), which uses a combination of 57 subjects such as math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics for testing both world knowledge and problem-solving abilities.
With Sam Altman back in OpenAI and Microsoft investing billions and billions of dollars into its AI products, the war for AI supremacy has just about begun.