Google debuts powerful Gemini generative AI model in strike at OpenAI, Microsoft
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Wednesday debuted its new Gemini generative AI model. The platform serves as Google’s answer to Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI’s GPT-4, and according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis it's the company’s “most capable and general model” yet.
Gemini is what is referred to as a natively multi-modal model, meaning it can analyze text, audio, video, images, and code. While other multi-model offerings exist, Google says Gemini stands apart because the model was designed to take all of those mediums into account from the beginning.
Other platforms, the company says, train separate models to tackle things like text, video, and photos and then string them together into a single model.
