Alphabet’s Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of Gemini, its conversational artificial intelligence software, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Sept 14 (Reuters) - Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of Gemini, its conversational artificial intelligence software, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Gemini is intended to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, according to the report.
For Google, the stakes of Gemini’s launch are high. Google has intensified investments in generative AI this year as it plays catch-up after Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT last year took the tech world by storm.
Gemini is a collection of large-language models that power everything from chatbots to features that either summarize text or generate original text based on what users want to read like email drafts, music lyrics, or news stories, the report said.
It is also expected to help software engineers write code and generate original images based on what users ask to see.
Google is currently giving developers access to a relatively large version of Gemini, but not the largest version it is developing which would be more on par with GPT-4, the report said.
The search and advertising giant plans to make Gemini available to companies through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service.
Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Last month, the company introduced generative AI to its Search tool for users in India and Japan that will show text or visual results to prompts, including summaries. It had also made its AI-powered tools available to enterprise customers at a monthly price of $30 per user.
Wow, this looks like it would be the first all in one then? As far as I’m aware there’s not yet an AI software that is able to do text and image based respomses? (Of course, the AI scene has moved so fast that I could have missed it entirely)
I think the implications near the end there is that it has the capability to index images somehow and serve them as search results. This could be an independent CLIP type image tagging system or it could be some internal version maybe.
Imagine you’re a construction business and he wants to feed this thing job site photos and let you search for something specific later because your organizational skills are a wreck. This sounds like it will do that.
“OK AI, show me the end of job safety report for that one job where the forklift still had a Christmas wreath on it last year” – or whatever
