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🏠 AI's New Gem(ini)

🏠 AI's New Gem(ini)

Sorry OpenAI, it's Google's time now

Stephen Flanders
September 18, 2023

Gm. If you spend any amount of time on TikTok, then you are probably familiar with the question sweeping the internet: how often do you think about the Roman Empire? Personally, I think about it at least once a week, which made my girlfriend stare at me in confusion for a solid 30 seconds. Make sure to respond to today’s poll so that I can show her I’m not alone here.

— Stephen Flanders

🏠 AI

Gemini Grows Closer

We’ve spent a lot of time in recent months covering Google’s Gemini AI model, and for good reason:

It could very well exceed GPT-4 in performance due to Google’s treasure trove of advanced GPUs.
It combines the text powers of a GPT-4 with the image powers of a Midjourney or Stable Diffusion.
It is the next shot fired in the increasingly entertaining and competitive AI wars.

Thankfully, some very exciting news is coming out of The Information: Gemini is close. So close that Google is now allowing a small number of companies to give it a spin.

And the early returns for Gemini appear to be positive, with one early tester saying that Gemini generates fewer incorrect answers than GPT-4 due to Google’s disgusting amounts of proprietary data (read: data from Search).

This is nothing but good news for Google, which has a lot riding on Gemini’s success:

They’ve poured a metric ton of resources into developing Gemini.
They are banking on it to power all of its AI products, including the chatbot Bard and a GitHub Copilot competitor.
They also want to use it to bring AI to “regular” products, like Google Cloud.

If you didn’t already know, now you do: the AI race is fully underway.

The Big Picture: Gemini is a big moment for Google, but competition is fierce with GPT-4, Claude, and Llama all lurking about.