Google debuts powerful Gemini generative AI model in strike at OpenAI, Microsoft
Google (GOOG,
GOOGL) on Wednesday debuted its new Gemini generative AI model. The platform serves as Google’s answer to
Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI’s GPT-4, and according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, it's the company’s
“most capable and general model” yet.
Gemini is what is referred to as a natively multimodal
model, meaning it can analyze text, audio, video, images, and code. While other multimodal offerings
exist, Google says Gemini stands apart because the model was designed to take all of those mediums into
account from the beginning.
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Another example showed how parents can use Gemini
to help their children with their homework. Not only is the AI able to read a student’s written answers
to math questions, but it is also able to tell if they are correct or not and explain where the student
went wrong and why.
On the coding front, Google said Gemini is one of the leading models for
coding around, claiming that the AI can understand programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, and
Go.