Google unveils ‘Gemini’, AI tech trained to behave like humans

Subject: Science and Tech

Section: AWARENESS IN IT,COMPUTER

Context:

Google Gemini, a new multimodal general AI model is now available to users across the world.

What is Google Gemini?

Google Gemini comes in three sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano.
It is being seen as Google’s answer to ChatGPT which has been ahead of the gameso far when it comes to GenAI.

Gemini is multimodal, which means it is not limited to the type of information it can process and can work understand and operate across text, code, audio, image and video.
In contrast, ChatGPT cannot work on video at the moment.
It is also much more powerful than existing models.
Gemini can understand, explain and generate high-quality code in the world’s most popular programming languages, like Python, Java, C++ and Go.

What is the need of launching Gemini in three sizes?

Gemini will be available in different sizes to scale it as per the need.
Gemini Ultra, the largest and most capable model, will be meant for highly complex tasks.
Gemini Pro will be best at scaling across a wide range of tasks for regular users across the world.
Gemini Nano will manage on-device tasks.

About ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot capable of natural language generation, translation, and answering questions.
GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer.
GPT-3 was the largest language model in existence at the time of its 2020 launch, with 175 billion parameters.
The latest version, GPT-4, accessible through ChatGPT Plus or Bing Chat, has one trillion parameters.