Gemini 1.5 Flash is optimized for high-volume tasks, while Project Astra represents Google's vision for future human-like AI assistants.
Google announced a collaboration between DeepMind AI research division and Google Research on project LearnLM.
Google announced new AI models Gemini 1.5 Flash and Project Astra at Google I/O 2024.
Google extended the context window of its 1.5 Pro model to process more information at once.
YouTube now features AI-generated quizzes for educational videos to make learning interactive and engaging.
Google I/O 2024: A Breakdown of Google's AI Announcements
Google held its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2024, on May 14th where the tech giant announced several new developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Here is a breakdown of some of the key announcements:
Google Introduces New Models: Gemini 1.5 Flash and Project Astra
Google unveiled two new models as part of its Gemini family, 1.5 Flash and Project Astra.
1.5 Flash is a faster and more efficient model optimized for high-volume tasks at scale.
Project Astra represents Google's vision for the future of AI assistants that can understand and respond like humans do.
Longer Context Window in 1.5 Pro Model
Google extended the context window of its 1.5 Pro model to 2 million tokens, allowing it to process more information at once.
AI-Generated Quizzes on YouTube for Educational Videos
YouTube now features AI-generated quizzes for users watching educational videos, making learning more interactive and engaging.
Collaboration Between DeepMind AI Research Division and Google Research: LearnLM
Google announced a collaboration between its DeepMind AI research division and Google Research on a project called LearnLM. The goal of this project is to develop large language models that can understand context, generate human-like text, and answer complex questions.
These announcements demonstrate Google's continued commitment to advancing AI technology and making it more accessible to users.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Gemini 1.5 Flash at the Google I/O developer conference.
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Gemini 1.5 Flash can quickly summarize conversations, caption images and videos, and extract data from large documents and tables.
The new model is faster and more cost-effective than its predecessors according to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind.
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Google’s latest AI models provide consumers with advanced and creative ways to access online information compared with traditional web search.
OpenAI recently launched GPT-4o, a new AI model that is twice as fast and half the cost of GPT-4 Turbo.
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Google announced a multimodal version of Gemini Nano at Google I/O 2024, allowing the on-device processing-powered AI model to recognize images, sounds, and spoken language in addition to text.
Those multimodal capabilities are coming to the Android accessibility feature TalkBack.
Google demoed video search during its I/O conference which allows you to search by speaking over a video clip and provides suggestions based on AI recognition.
Gemini introduced new models 1.5 Flash and Project Astra.
1.5 Pro model context window was extended to 2 million tokens.
Project Astra is Google’s vision for the future of AI assistants that can understand and respond like humans do.
1.5 Flash is a faster and more efficient model optimized for high-volume tasks at scale.
]1.5 Pro[ was significantly improved with enhancements in code generation, logical reasoning, planning, multi-turn conversation, audio and image understanding.]
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1.5 Pro model context window was extended to 2 million tokens.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Gemini 1.5 Pro offers the longest context window of any foundational model yet.