Gemini - The Google Challenger to ChatGPT.

Google has announced 3 major updates to chatbot Bard:

It’s rebranding to ‘Gemini’,

it will now also be accessible via a new app for Android,

and a more complex version (Gemini Advanced) will be available under a new paid subscription. 

Key Points: 

• Google has rebranded Bard to ‘Gemini’, to reflect the technology it’s built on, but it will still be available in all the same places, and will still have all the same capabilities.

• They’ve also launched an app to make ‘Gemini’ features easier to access for Android users (iPhone users can access ‘Gemini’ via the iOS Google app).

• Finally, they’ve introduced ‘Gemini Advanced’, powered by Gemini Ultra 1.0 (their most powerful AI model), that can complete complex tasks, like coding and logical reasoning.

• ‘Gemini Advanced’ is available for $20p/m, under a “Google One AI Premium” subscription (which includes 2TB of storage and other perks), which users can use without paying, for 2 months.

Why should you care: These updates are a move by Google to create an eco-system of AI-powered models to make it easier for users to access and collaborate with Google AI, no doubt set to challenge its biggest rivals in AI, namely OpenAI.