Google has granted a select group of companies early access to its artificial intelligence program called “Gemini,” according to reports from The Information, this move is seen as Google’s effort to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, which has garnered significant support from Microsoft and attracted substantial investment.
For Google, the stakes are high as it seeks to ramp up its investments in generative AI this year to catch up with the technological revolution set in motion by OpenAI’s ChatGPT last year.
The report suggests that Gemini encompasses a range of large language models designed to handle various tasks, from chatbots to summarizing text or generating original content based on user input, such as drafting emails, song lyrics, or news articles.
Gemini is also expected to assist software engineers in writing code and creating original images based on user requests.
Currently, Google is granting developers access to a relatively large version of Gemini but not the largest one under development, which will be on par with GPT-4.
Google plans to make Gemini available to businesses through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service. Last month, the company introduced generative AI technology to its search tool for users in India and Japan, offering textual or visual outputs for queries, such as summaries, Google also made its AI-powered tools available to enterprise customers for a monthly fee of $30 per user.
