Google has spent around $2.7 billion to bring AI expert Noam Shazeer back to the company. Shazeer, co-author of a groundbreaking AI research paper, left Google in 2021 to start his own company, Character.AI. When that ran into trouble, Google offered the large sum – officially for a technology license. In reality, however, the main … Read more
Google today announced major updates to its Gemini AI platform. The Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002 models have been improved and now offer higher quality for mathematical tasks, long contexts, and visual applications. At the same time, Google is reducing the price of Gemini 1.5 Pro by more than 50% while significantly increasing the limits. A major … Read more
Google is starting to roll out Gemini Live outside of the “Advanced“ plan on Android. This feature allows natural conversations with the AI assistant, including the ability to interrupt answers. It’s similar to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, which was introduced months ago but is still not available to all users. As Abner Li reports for … Read more
Google is launching its AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature. The new feature, based on the Gemini AI model, allows users to use complex natural language queries to find photos. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the feature will initially be available to select customers in the US. With “Ask Photos,” users can search for the best … Read more
Google is adding AI-powered features to its Chromebook Plus devices. In addition to a writing assistant and wallpaper generator, users will get easy access to Google’s Gemini chatbot. In the future, Chromebooks will also get AI-powered reading summaries, improved continuity between devices, and a focus mode.
Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, … Read more
As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, … Read more
We reported on Google’s AI offensive under the “Gemini” banner, but soon after, it was the integrated image generator that made the headlines: It had apparently been steered too much in favor of diversity. What is generally a good idea makes no sense if, for example, you want a picture of the “founding fathers” of … Read more
Google has visibly accelerated AI development. At the same time, the company is unifying its activities under the “Gemini” brand. The ChatGPT competitor Google Bard is now called Google Gemini and the proprietary AI models are also called Gemini. Until now, Google’s chatbot used the “Gemini Pro” AI model, but now “Gemini Ultra” is also … Read more