Google perfectly timed Gemini’s launch as GPT-4 developer OpenAI is still recovering from internal struggles that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired within a matter of.
In context: Google just launched Gemini, its most advanced AI model. The search giant ranks it better than GPT-4 in almost every benchmark tested, but perhaps we should hold off getting too excited until independent tests come out.
Google perfectly timed Gemini’s launch as GPT-4 developer OpenAI is still recovering from internal struggles that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired within a matter of days. This timing was probably unintentional but advantageous nonetheless since OpenAI will need more than a minute to process and respond to the news.
Meanwhile, Google’s PR hype train is running full-throttle, with the company releasing several videos on YouTube, X/Twitter, and a lengthy post to its blog. That’s not to downplay the AI’s capabilities because the demonstrations developers shared are impressive. Just keep in mind Google is a for-profit company and will display its products in the best possible light.
Disclaimers aside, Sundar Pichai’s X post (above) is probably the best video demonstrating Gemini’s abilities. In it, a Gemini-infused chatbot shows that it understands several types of input–primarily audio and visual in this example. However, Gemini is a “multimodal” model.
