Goodbye, Bard. Hello, Gemini. There has been a changing of the guard in the artificial intelligence (AI) world.
Alphabet’s Google unit hasn’t just renamed its generative AI app that was initially launched last year in a bid to play catchup with OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT. It also replaced the underlying large language model (LLM) with its most powerful AI model so far — Gemini.
This new LLM comes in three sizes. Gemini Nano can run locally on devices. Gemini Pro powers the free version of the app that used to be called Bard. Gemini Ultra is the largest model with capabilities to handle highly complex tasks. It went head-to-head with GPT-4, the LLM underneath OpenAI’s most advanced version of ChatGPT, and came out on top on most benchmarks.
