KEY FACT: Google Boss, Sundar Pichai, has unveiled AI model Gemini and its unique capabilities. The AI will soon appear in Gmail, YouTube, and the company’s smartphones.

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Sundar Pichai at Google I/O 2024. Source: Google

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Google Boss Unveils The Gemini Era

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, has revealed that Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini is being integrated into much of Google's products and offerings. This revelation was made in his keynote speech at the company’s I/O 2024 developer conference on May 14.

Sundar Pichai revealed some of the upcoming places its AI model will appear, such as Gmail, Search, YouTube, and the company’s smartphones. This will give an entirely new outlook to users of Google products.

While delivering his 110-minute keynote address at the conference, Pichai mentioned AI 121 times which majorly centered on Gemini from its launch in December 2023 and covering several updates to the present model. He labeled the present season of innovations in AI within Google as "The Gemini Era".

A year ago on the I/O stage we first shared our plans for Gemini: a frontier model built to be natively multimodal from the beginning, that could reason across text, images, video, code, and more. It marks a big step in turning any input into any output — an “I/O” for a new generation. Since then, we introduced the first Gemini models, our most capable yet. They demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on every multimodal benchmark. Two months later, we introduced Gemini 1.5 Pro, delivering a big breakthrough in long context. It can run 1 million tokens in production, consistently, more than any other large-scale foundation model yet. - Source

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The major integrations in Gemini that would change user interaction are improved app interactions, Gemini in Gmail, Gemini Live, and Gemini in Google Search, among others.

On improved app interactions, users will be able to call Gemini to interact with apps, such as dragging and dropping an AI-generated image into a message. Moreover, YouTube users will also be able to tap “Ask this video” to get specific information from the AI within the video.

Gemini Live was unveiled where users can have “in-depth” voice chats with the AI on their smartphones. Gemini Live is built such that the chatbot can be interrupted mid-answer for clarification, and it will adapt to users’ speech patterns in real-time.

Gemini AI has been integrated into Gmail. With this integration, users will be able to search, summarize, and draft their emails using Gemini. In this new model, the AI assistant will be able to take action on emails for more complex tasks.

Sundar Pichai harped that one of the most exciting transformations with Gemini has been in Google Search. The integration would offer a Search Generative Experience which allows users to Search in entirely new ways, asking new types of questions, longer and more complex queries, even searching with photos, and getting back the best the web has to offer.

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Other significant additions to the Gemini are Ask Photos, Audio outputs in NotebookLM, Gemini 1.5 Pro in Workspace, AI agents

Despite the massive innovations and investments around Gemini, Pichai maintained that Google is still in the early days of the AI platform shift. He expressed that there is so much opportunity ahead, for creators, developers, startups, and everyone.

The power of Gemini — with multimodality, long context, and agents — brings us closer to our ultimate goal: making AI helpful for everyone.

The AI technology is revolutionalizing many things and Google is forging ahead to make the experience amazing for its users. What are your expectations in the coming weeks?

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