Context: Recently, Google has launched a project “Gemini,” a new multimodal general artificial intelligence (AI) to exhibit human-like behavior.

Specialties of Google Gemini

• An expert helper or assistant. 
• It is also much more powerful than existing models. 
• Programming Language: Gemini can understand, explain and generate high-quality code in the world’s most popular programming languages, like Python, Java, C++ and Go.
• A Multimodal: 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. 

Three Versions of Google Gemini

• Google Gemini has been optimized for three versions:
  • Gemini Nano: Optimal for mobile devices and will manage on-device tasks.
  • Gemini Pro: Built for scaling across a wide range of tasks.
  • Gemini Ultra: The largest and most capable model, undertaking highly complex tasks.
    • Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on massive multitask language understanding (MMLU).
      • MMLU uses a combination of 57 subjects such as math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics to test world knowledge and problem-solving abilities.

Significance of Google Gemini 

• Quality with Latency Reduction: Google claimed that Gemini performed 40% reduction in latency in English in the U.S.  alongside improvements in quality”.
• On Safety: Google claimed that Gemini has “most comprehensive safety evaluations of any Google AI model to date, including for bias and toxicity”,
  • It has conducted research into potential risk areas like cyber-offense, persuasion, and autonomy. 
  • A diverse group of external experts are also working and identifying blindspots.
• Google Gemini vs ChatGPT 4:
  • More Flexible: Currently, Gemini seems to be more flexible than GPT4 at the moment. 
  • Work with Video: Gemini’s ability to work with video and on devices without Internet gives it an edge. 
    • In contrast, ChatGPT cannot currently work on video, at least not natively.
  • Free to Use: Gemini is now free while ChatGPT4 is only for paid users.

News Source: The Indian Express