Google Gemini represents a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence, now being integrated across a range of Google products and platforms to enhance user experience and developer capabilities. This innovative AI model is designed to bring more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding, and more to billions of users worldwide.
Gemini Pro: Powering Advanced Features in Google Products
Gemini Pro, a fine-tuned version of Gemini, marks the most substantial upgrade to Bard since its inception. Starting today, Bard is leveraging Gemini Pro to deliver enhanced reasoning and comprehension in English across over 170 countries and territories. Google plans to expand Gemini Pro’s capabilities to include different modalities and support new languages and locations soon.
The integration of Gemini extends to Pixel devices, with Pixel 8 Pro becoming the first smartphone engineered to run Gemini Nano. This on-device implementation powers features like Summarize in the Recorder app and Smart Reply in Gboard, initially supporting WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk, with plans to include more messaging applications in the coming year.
Looking ahead, Gemini’s reach will broaden to encompass more Google services, including Search, Ads, Chrome, and Duet AI. Experiments are already underway in Search, where Gemini is accelerating the Search Generative Experience (SGE), resulting in a 40% reduction in latency for English queries in the U.S., alongside improvements in search quality.
Building with Gemini: Empowering Developers and Enterprises
Developers and enterprise clients can now harness the power of Gemini Pro through the Gemini API, accessible via Google AI Studio and Google Cloud Vertex AI starting December 13.
Google AI Studio offers a complimentary, web-based platform for developers to rapidly prototype and deploy applications using an API key. For those seeking a fully-managed AI platform, Vertex AI enables the customization of Gemini with comprehensive data control, enhanced by Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade security, safety, privacy, data governance, and compliance features.
Android developers can also leverage Gemini Nano, Google’s most efficient model for on-device tasks, through AICore. AICore is a new system capability available in Android 14, starting with Pixel 8 Pro devices. Developers interested in exploring on-device AI capabilities can sign up for an early preview of AICore.
Gemini Ultra: The Horizon of AI Capabilities
Gemini Ultra, the most powerful iteration of the Gemini family, is currently undergoing rigorous trust and safety evaluations, including red-teaming by external experts. Google is further refining Gemini Ultra through fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to ensure its readiness for broad availability.
As part of this meticulous process, Gemini Ultra will be selectively available to customers, developers, partners, and safety experts for initial experimentation and feedback before a wider rollout to developers and enterprise customers early next year.
Furthermore, early next year will witness the launch of Bard Advanced, a new premium AI experience providing access to Google’s most advanced models and capabilities, starting with Gemini Ultra. This will offer users a cutting-edge AI interaction, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
