Google renames Bard AI service to Gemini. Here’s what it means

Google is releasing Gemini, a free artificial intelligence app, which will allow individuals to write, read aloud, and perform out various other tasks in their life without using their own brains.

With the release of Gemini, a name inspired by an AI project that was revealed towards the end of the previous year, Google is discontinuing the Bard brand that it debuted a year ago. Google announced on Thursday that Bard, a chatbot, will now be known as Gemini, which “represents our most capable family of models.” Bard was an attempt to compete with ChatGPT, the rival system released by the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI in late 2022.

Google is launching a stand-alone Gemini app on the web and for cell phones running its Android operating system right now.

The launch of Gemini increases the battle between Google and Microsoft to control emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which the companies market as offering new opportunities for individuals to express their creativity, handle jobs like debugging code, or even get ready for job interviews. Google offers two free months to encourage users to try out its premium model, which costs $20 per month in addition to the free version of Gemini.

Prior to Thursday’s presentation, Sissie Hsiao, a Google general manager in charge of Gemini, told reporters, “We think this is one of the most profound ways we are going to advance our mission.”

The features of Gemini will be included into Google’s current iPhone search app, however Apple would prefer that users use its Siri voice assistant for a variety of tasks.

How can Google Gemini be used?

According to the Mountain View, California-based startup, Gemini is such an advanced kind of AI that it can instruct students, give engineers advice on computer programming, come up with project ideas, and then create the material for suggestions that a user finds most appealing.

Google has stated that its voice assistant, Gemini, will be in use for years to come. However, executives at the business expect Gemini to take the lead in helping consumers utilize technology for planning, creating, and thinking.

It is Google’s next step toward its original mission of “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” while also taking the company down a novel potentially perilous avenue.

Where can you get Gemini?

The Gemini app will be available in English first in the United States and will be available in Japanese and Korean starting next week, when it expands to the Asia-Pacific area.

Google Gemini: Is it free?

There is a $20/month Gemini Advanced option that will be powered by an AI technology called “Ultra 1.0” in addition to a free version. The roughly 100 million global users that Google claims it has already drawn, the majority of whom pay $2 to $10 per month for extra storage to back up images, documents, and other digital content, will be added to by the $20/month service.

Google now charges $10 per month for 2 terabytes of storage, therefore the company feels the AI technology is worth an extra $10 per month for the Gemini Advanced membership.

What does this mean for Google?

As part of a trend started by Google with the introduction of its most recent Pixel smartphones last autumn and adopted by Samsung with the release of its most recent Galaxy smartphones last month, the launch of the Gemini applications highlights the building moment to bring more AI to smartphones — gadgets that accompany people everywhere.

It is also expected to increase the high-stakes AI competition between Google and Microsoft, two of the biggest corporations in the world vying for control over a technology that has the potential to completely transform entertainment, the workplace, and maybe humanity itself. Since the end of 2022, the conflict has already helped to boost the combined market values of Microsoft and Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, by $2 trillion.

Google CEO Sundar Puchai stated in a blog post that Gemini Advanced’s technology will be able to tackle many complex problems and outsmart even the most intelligent people.

“Ultra 1.0 is the first to outperform human experts on (massive multitask language understanding), which uses a combination of 57 subjects — including math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics — to test knowledge and problem-solving abilities,” Pichai stated.

What is Microsoft doing with AI?

Microsoft, on the other hand, is promoting its Copilot app during Sunday’s Super Bowl to highlight how the AI-powered tool can foster creativity and facilitate a variety of tasks.

With the introduction of increasingly sophisticated AI, the technology can naturally malfunction, misbehave, or be used by humans for nefarious purposes, such as spreading political misinformation or torturing opponents. There are growing concerns that it may be manipulated by This potential has already led to the adoption of rules to monitor the use of AI in Europe and is influencing similar efforts in the United States and other countries.

The next generation of Google products, according to Google, have been put through rigorous testing to guarantee their safety and compliance with its AI principles, which include being socially useful, avoiding unfair biases, and being accountable to people.