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Gemini Is Here

I don’t know what the hell happened to Google between Monday and Thursday, but whatever it is, I’ll take two please.

On Monday, I talked about Google’s Gemini AI model getting postponed to January. But, on Thursday, we wake up to Gemini being released. January in December, I guess.

So, here’s the low down on Google’s surprise bombshell:

• It’s actually 3 separate models. Gemini Nano is for phones, Gemini Pro is for Google’s services (mainly Bard), and Gemini Ultra is for data centers and enterprises.

• It is the first model to score 90% on the 57-subject MMLU (massive multitask language understanding) test, outperforming human experts.

• In a test of 32 benchmarks, Gemini outperformed GPT-4 on 30 of them.

• It’s particularly strong on images and videos, which makes sense considering Google really emphasized Gemini’s multimodality.

• It is run with Google’s in-house designed TPUs, which Google says will enable Gemini to be extremely reliable, scalable, and fast.

A lot to digest there, but the TLDR is that Gemini Ultra (the beefiest model) is the new state-of-the-art AI model.

You can start playing around with Gemini in Bard or on the Pixel 8 Pro, with Gemini Ultra coming out sometime next year.

Short Lived? With GPT-5 and/or Q* presumably coming sometime relatively soon, it’s unclear how long Gemini will enjoy pole position.

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AI

• Meta’s (kinda weird) AI characters are now live.

• Grok has arrived.

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