Google’s Gemini AI chatbot has quickly become one of the major players in the generative AI space. Despite its rocky start, Gemini is one of the only true competitors to ChatGPT. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
What is Google Gemini? Google first introduced its AI endeavor as Bard in March 2023 in a free and experimental capacity. The chatbot was originally run on the LaMDA large language model (LLM). In August 2023, it introduced Google Duet as an enterprise option featuring AI-inundated Workspace apps, including Gmail, Drive, Slides, Docs, and others.
However, in December 2023, Google upgraded the Bard language model to the Gemini LLM. By February it unified Duet and Bard into a single product and rebranded all of its AI options under a single name: Gemini. As of June 2024, Gemini is available on Android in 29 languages for any device running Android 10 or newer and has at least 2GB of RAM.
iOS users can access the service through the Gemini tab in the Google app. Like ChatGPT, Google Gemini is an AI chatbot that can generate text and answer questions, and it can do just about anything that ChatGPT can do. Google is marketing its Gemini generative AI as especially powerful because of its multimodal capabilities that allow it to perform tasks such as generating text, images, video, audio, and code within the same platform.
Gemini supports several large language model (LLM) options that are available for different tiers of purpose and expertise, including Gem.
