Google on Wednesday introduced Gemini which it deemed the «most capable and general model» it has ever built. we’ve ever built. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts Google has undertaken as a company.
«We’re taking the next step on our journey (as an AI first company) with Gemini, our most capable and general model yet, with state-of-the art performance across many leading benchmarks,» Pichai said in a foreword to the blog post about the announcement. «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.»
Starting today, the company said Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro which will be available in English in more than 170 countries and territories, including India.
As per the company, Gemini Ultra is the largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, Gemini Pro is the best model for scaling across a wide range of tasks while Gemini Nano is the most efficient model for on-device tasks.
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind said Gemini is the result of large-scale collaborative efforts by teams across Google, including those at Google Research. He said it was built from the ground up to be multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine