Google is on the brink of unveiling its highly anticipated conversational AI software, known as ‘Gemini,’ in a move set to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, according to a recent report by The Information.
In response to the emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google has significantly increased its investment and funding in the field of generative AI. This investment was evident in August when the tech giant integrated generative AI into its Google Search platform, benefiting users in Japan and India with enhanced visual and text results, along with summarization capabilities. Additionally, Google made its AI tools accessible to enterprise users for a monthly subscription fee of $30.
What is Gemini?
Gemini has similarities to OpenAI’s capabilities as it is a group of large language models that can generate texts using what the users would like to read such as news, stories, music lyrics and email drafts. Likewise, the AI software can summarize long texts for users.
The report also highlights that Gemini will assist software engineers in writing codes and generating images based on the input of the user. Built and designed with multimodal processing, Gemini can generate context-sensitive texts and images in response to prompts.
Google plans to make the AI software available to firms via Google Cloud Vertex Artificial Intelligence service.
Gemini is GPT-4’s competitor
Google explicitly positioned Gemini as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4. Notably, Google’s modern TPUv5 chips power Gemini, enabling seamless operation across a staggering 16,384 chips simultaneously. While only a relatively large version of the software will be initially available to developers, Google is diligently working on a larger iteration, asserting that it will be poised to compete with GPT-4 on an even playing field.
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