As pressure grows on Google to explain how it plans to monetize artificial intelligence, the company is launching what it believes to be its largest and most capable model.
Three sizes will be available for the large language model Gemini: Gemini Ultra, which is the largest and most capable category; Gemini Pro, which scales across a variety of tasks; and Gemini Nano, which is reserved for specialized tasks and mobile devices.
For the time being, the company intends to license Gemini to clients via Google Cloud so they can utilize it in their apps. Developers and enterprise clients can use Google Cloud Vertex AI or Google AI Studio’s Gemini API to access Gemini Pro as of December 13. Gemini Nano will also be available for use by Android developers. Additionally, Gemini will power Google products like its Bard chatbot and Search Generative Experience (SGE), which attempts to provide conversational-style text responses to search queries (though SGE is not yet generally available).
Businesses and corporations could use it to identify trends for product advertising, as well as for more sophisticated customer service engagement through chatbots and product recommendations. Gemini can also be used for productivity apps that need to produce code for developers or summarize meetings, or for content creation in the case of a business wanting to write blog posts or marketing campaigns.
Pichai said in a blog post, “This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company. I’m genuinely excited for what’s ahead, and for the opportunities Gemini will unlock for people everywhere.”