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Google aims to relaunch Gemini AI image tool in a few weeks

Google aims to relaunch Gemini AI image tool in a few weeks

By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) -Google plans to relaunch in the next few weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said on Monday. Alphabet’s Google began offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month. Some users, however, flagged on social media that it generated historical images which were sometimes inaccurate. “We have taken the feature offline… Source link

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Google announces multi-modal Gemini 1.5 with million token context length

Google announces multi-modal Gemini 1.5 with million token context length

One week after announcing Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Google announced additional details about its next generation model, Gemini 1.5. The new iteration comes with an expansion of its context window and the adoption of a “Mixture of Experts” (MoE) architecture, promising to make the AI both faster and more efficient. The new model also includes expanded multimodal capabilities. With the ability to process up to 1 million tokens, it dwarfs the capabilities of its competitors and even its own… Source link

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Introducing Gemini 1.5, Google’s next-generation AI model

Introducing Gemini 1.5, Google’s next-generation AI model

Introducing Gemini 1.5 By Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, on behalf of the Gemini team This is an exciting time for AI. New advances in the field have the potential to make AI more helpful for billions of people over the coming years. Since introducing Gemini 1.0, we’ve been testing, refining and enhancing its capabilities. Today, we’re announcing our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5. Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance. It represents a step change in our approach,… Source link

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Gemini 1.5: Google’s next-gen AI model is almost ready

Gemini 1.5: Google’s next-gen AI model is almost ready

Barely two months after launching Gemini, the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry, the company is already announcing its successor. Google is launching Gemini 1.5 today and making it available to developers and enterprise users ahead of a full consumer rollout coming soon. The company has made clear that it is all in on Gemini as a business tool, a personal assistant, and everything in between, and it’s pushing hard on that plan. There are a lot of… Source link

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We tested Google’s Gemini chatbot — here’s how it performed

We tested Google’s Gemini chatbot — here’s how it performed

Image Credits: TechCrunch Gemini, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, is here. Is it any good? While it’s a solid option for research and productivity, it stumbles in obvious — and some not-so-obvious — places. Last week, Google rebranded its Bard chatbot to Gemini and brought Gemini — which confusingly shares a name in common with the company’s latest family of generative AI models — to smartphones in the form of a reimagined app… Source link

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Gemini Advanced is most impressive when it’s working with Google

Gemini Advanced is most impressive when it’s working with Google

Chatbots occupy a tricky space for users — they have to be a search engine, a creation tool, and an assistant all at once. That’s especially true for a chatbot coming from Google, which is increasingly counting on AI to supplement its search engine, its voice assistant, and just about every productivity tool in its arsenal. Right now, the ultimate version of Google’s AI is Gemini Advanced, which launched last week for users willing to pay $20 per month for the privilege — the same… Source link

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Don’t tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice

Don’t tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice

Maria Diaz/ZDNET The Gemini app, formerly known as Bard, is poised to become the next-generation digital assistant on Android devices. This new AI-centric landscape promises to make interacting with your smartphones and other devices considerably smarter and easier. But those AI apps come with a risk, which Google’s new privacy warning illustrates perfectly. Also: The 3 biggest risks from generative AI – and how to deal with them This warning comes by way of the Gemini Apps Privacy Hub and… Source link

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Google’s Gemini assistant is fantastic and frustrating

Google’s Gemini assistant is fantastic and frustrating

I don’t know how to say this, but sometimes the emotional labor of opening another app on my phone and typing in some text is just too much. I need to gather details about an Airbnb reservation from two different confirmation emails and send them to my friends. Or I want to figure out when to leave this coffee shop to get home by a certain time via bus. These aren’t hard things to do, but they require enough tapping around different apps or tabbing between screens that I start to think,… Source link

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Google introduces free AI app Gemini in place of Bard chatbot

Google on Thursday introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will enable people to rely on technology instead of their own brains to write, interpret what they’re reading and deal with a variety of other task in their lives. With the advent of the Gemini app, named after an AI project unveiled late last year, Google will cast aside the Bard chatbot that it introduced a year ago in an effort to catch up with ChatGPT, the chatbot unleashed by the Microsoft-backed startup… Source link

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Google is rebranding its Bard AI service as Gemini. Here’s what it means.

Google is rebranding its Bard AI service as Gemini. Here’s what it means.

Google is introducing a free artificial intelligence app called Gemini that will enable people to rely on technology instead of their own brains to write, interpret what they’re reading and perform a number of other tasks in their lives. The advent of Gemini, named after an AI project unveiled late last year, means that Google is retiring the Bard brand that it introduced a year ago. Bard, a chatbot, was an effort to compete with ChatGPT, the rival app unleashed by the Microsoft-backed… Source link

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