Google's AI model Gemini to power Bard, enterprise and cloud products - report
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Google's next-generation artificial intelligence, or AI, foundation model Gemini, which has the ability to generate conversational text and imagery will launch this fall, The Information reported.
The Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit aims for Gemini to power services ranging from its chatbot Bard, which competes with Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT, to enterprise apps such as Google Docs and Slides, the report added.
In May, the tech giant had said that Gemini was still in training and was created to be multimodal, highly efficient at tool and API (application programming interfaces) integrations, and built to enable future innovations, like memory and planning. The company had noted that they were seeing impressive multimodal capabilities not seen in prior models and once fine-tuned and tested for safety, Gemini would be available at various sizes and capabilities.
Generative artificial intelligence, or AI, services have taken the world by storm, since the launch of ChatGPT. Companies around the world have launched their own large language models, or LLMs. Baidu's (BIDU) Ernie Bot, Alibaba's (BABA) Tongyi Qianwen and Tongyi Wanxiang, Google's Bard, OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney Inc.'s Midjourney are to name a few.
In July, Meta introduced Llama 2, in collaboration with Microsoft, for free research and commercial use. Meta made Llama 2 available in the Azure AI model catalog, allowing developers using Microsoft Azure to build with it and use their cloud-native tools for content filtering and safety features.
Earlier in this month, Meta unveiled its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft which enables users to generate audio and music from text prompts.

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