Now Google is integrating its advanced AI model into several services.
Now the name Bard disappears. Hereafter you have to deal with Google Gemini.
KameraStein Jarle Olsen / Tek.no
Save
The short version Tick off
- Google is integrating its advanced AI model, Gemini, into several services and changing its interface name from Bard to Gemini.
- Gemini will now be available on mobile, available to download as a separate app for Android users, and iPhone users can use it through the Google app in iOS.
- Global availability is currently limited to English-language, while the European market is expected to follow due to stricter regulations.
- Gemini Ultra, the advanced version of the language model, is now open for use through the product Gemini Advanced, available in 150 countries, including Norway.
- Gemini Advanced is limited to the Google One «AI Premium» subscription at DKK 259/month.
Mer +
It took some time before Google’s artificial intelligence machine really started to gain momentum, but now it’s going so fast that they just as easily throw the name “Bard” on the heap.
For Bard is basically just the name of the interface to the company’s best AI model, whose name is Gemini – and of which we got a proper presentation already in December.
In order to avoid further confusion, they therefore rename the whole Sulamite Gemini. This means that we don’t need to think of the interface or the language model as two different things, and for the average consumer it will probably be fine to only have one term to deal with.
Apart from the fact that Gemini is of course pushed out in several editions and versions.
Gemini was originally presented in three “sizes” – Ultra, Pro and Nano.
KameraGoogle
Can take over for Google Assistant on the mobile
More important news – at least for those living in other English-speaking parts of the world – is that from today Gemini will be available on the mobile phone.
This is the same model that is currently available via the browser, i.e. Gemini Pro.
Google announced that they were already working on this last autumn, and now it is already in place. For Android users, it can be downloaded as a separate app, while you with an iPhone should be able to use it through the Google app in iOS.
On Android, it will be able to completely take over for Google Assistant, but as it works in quite a different way, it is something users must choose to use. As an assistant, Gemini will work across Google apps and take input through text, speech or images.
KameraGoogle
Norwegian users and the Norwegian language are of course not first in line, but the Android version is being released today “globally” in English language guise. The exception is the European market, which has somewhat stricter rules than the rest of the world.
For the iPhone, only the US will now be opened for today’s launch, but as early as next week Gemini should be downloadable in English in other markets as well. With the exception of (you guessed it) Europe.
Until then, we have to make do Gemini in the browser, which came out in Norwegian last week. If we expect approximately the same time delay for Norwegian Gemini on the mobile, this means that we have to expect at least a couple of months’ waiting time before we get to try Gemini as a mobile assistant.
Regarding using Gemini to control smart gadgets or the like, we don’t know more from Google than that it’s still something they’re looking at.
Opens for Ultra 1.0
At the same time, Google is now also opening up the use of Gemini Ultra – i.e. the truly advanced version of the language model.
When the company first unveiled Gemini in December, it claimed that Ultra outperformed both OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model and human experts in the so-called MMLU test. combination of 57 topics, including mathematics, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics. The aim is to test both knowledge and ability to solve problems. (massive multitask language understanding). Then with a score of 90 percent.
Ultra version 1.0 will be available via the product Gemini Advanced, which from today will be released in 150 countries and markets – albeit only in English. The good news is that Norway is actually on that list.
The bad news is that Gemini Advanced is only available via Google One– the “AI Premium” subscription for DKK 259/month.
However, the subscription also offers 2 TB of cloud storage and a number of other benefits, and also comes with a 2-month free trial right now.
Furthermore, Google promises that this subscription will eventually ensure that Gemini is integrated into Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Meet and the like, but it does not come for free.
Oh yes, they’ve also set an 18-year age limit on Gemini Advanced, so for now this really isn’t something for everyone.
Will you pay for Google One “AI Premium”?