Google AI

Teased in December as its most capable AI model, Google is rolling out Gemini Ultra 1.0 today. To mark this occasion, Google Bard is being renamed to Gemini on the web, while it’s now available on Android and iOS.

Announced as Assistant with Bard alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro last October, Google today is rolling out Gemini to provide an optimized mobile experience that integrates with Android, while it’s now part of the Google app on iOS.

In a somewhat surprising move, it seems that Google is ditching the “Bard” branding altogether across the web app and the upcoming phone experience, switching entirely to “Gemini.”

Generative AI is coming to Google Maps and will let you find places in a conversational manner.

The year in Bard updates is starting today with Gemini Pro now available in “all supported languages and places.” Google is also adding an image generator to Bard and announcing “ImageFX.”

Besides Recorder Summarize and Magic Compose in Google Messages, Gboard Smart Reply is the other feature that Gemini Nano powers on the Pixel 8 Pro. After initially just supporting WhatsApp, Google has quietly added support for two more apps.

Project IDX, Google’s all-in-one web-based, AI-enhanced app development suite, is delivering on some of its early promises. Among other improvements, developers can now access a full iOS simulator and Android emulator directly from the browser, enabling iOS development without a Mac.

At the start of 2018, Google introduced Art Selfie to match your face with existing works and find your doppelgänger. For Art Selfie 2, Google is leveraging generative AI to actually place you in paintings.

Google is rolling out Chrome 121 today with “experimental” generative AI features like “Tab Organizer” and a theme maker.

Google has begun experimenting with bringing the equivalent of the Super Res Zoom feature of Pixel phones to Chromebooks.

While Google has yet to announce a firm launch date for its AI-enhanced Assistant with Bard, the Google app has been updated with some new designs, including our best look yet at its popup window and an interesting tab switcher. The company is also tweaking its recently launched stocks and finance widget.

Google Arts & Culture released “Say What You See “in November as a fun little game that lets you learn about the “art of image prompting” and makes for good practice.

Announced at I/O 2023, Google started rolling out Magic Compose at the end of May. After initially being limited to the US, Magic Compose in Google Messages is now seeing some international availability.

Over the past year, Google has been working to add generative AI to its products. The latest application of that is a new “AI support assistant” live on some Google Help pages.

With Gemini now in the wild, Google’s next task is to integrate the foundational model into its various products. A new report today describes hardware efforts like a “Pixie” AI assistant that could launch with the Pixel 9.

Following last week’s consumer-facing announcement, Google is launching Gemini Pro for developers and enterprises through AI Studio and Vertex AI.

After 14 years of providing a space to showcase thought-provoking projects built on Google’s tech, Experiments with Google is shutting down, encouraging users to share on Google Labs instead.

Generative AI has taken the world, and Google’s products by storm over the past year. Now, Google Chrome is preparing a new feature that creates custom themes for the browser using AI.

Large language models (LLMs) will make possible a slew of new capabilities in consumer apps over the coming years. Google has explored creating a personalized chatbot that can “answer previously impossible questions” about your life by setting LLMs loose on your Google Photos library and other sources.

Google this week launched Gemini, it’s new AI model that powers Bard and will do a whole lot more in the future. And, to show of the capabilities of Gemini, Google produced a truly impressive demo that, really was too good to be true. And, well, it was, but Google is showing off exactly how it was made.

At I/O 2023 in May, Google demoed an “AI-first notebook” that was originally called Project Tailwind. NotebookLM is now seeing a general release in the US, and – like Bard – will now be powered by Gemini Pro.