By Eberechi Obinagwam
Google has introduced Gemini Advanced as the new name for Bard.
Google Bard now Gemini is an AI-powered chatbot tool designed by Google to simulate human conversations using natural language processing and machine learning.
Google in a release said its mission with Bard has always been to give users direct access to AI models, and Gemini represents their most capable family of models. It has been the best way for people to directly experience our most capable models.” To reflect this, Bard will now simply be known as Gemini.”
It said Bard now Gemini is available in 40 languages on the web, and is coming to a new Gemini app on Android and on the Google app on iOS.
The version with Ultra will be called Gemini Advanced, a new experience far more capable at reasoning, following instructions, coding, and creative collaboration. For example, it can be a personal tutor, tailored to your learning style. Or it can be a creative partner, helping you plan a content strategy or build a business plan. You can read more in this post.
Anyone can start using Gemini Advanced by subscribing to the new Google One AI Premium plan, which offers the best of Google’s AI features in a single place.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, stated that for years, they have been investing deeply in AI as the single best way to improve Search and all of its products. “We are excited by the progress, for example with our Search Generative Experience, or SGE, which you can try in Google Labs. AI is also now central to two businesses that have grown rapidly in recent years: our Cloud and Workspace services and our popular subscription service Google One, which is just about to cross 100 million subscribers.”
Explaining more about the new state of art, he said: “In December, we took a significant step on our journey to make AI more helpful for everyone with the start of the Gemini era, setting a new state of the art across a wide range of text, image, audio, and video benchmarks. However, Gemini is evolving to be more than just the models. It supports an entire ecosystem — from the products that billions of people use every day, to the APIs and platforms helping developers and businesses innovate.
The largest model Ultra 1.0 is the first to outperform human experts on MMLU (massive multitask language understanding), which uses a combination of 57 subjects — including math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics — to test knowledge and problem-solving abilities. Today we are taking our next step and bringing Ultra to our products and the world.”
