Google launches AI project Gemini, and the stock pops 6%

The wait for Gemini felt a bit like waiting for Godot this year. #google #ai #gemini #news #richtv #richtvlive #richtvlivepodcast - December 7, 2023

Google launches AI project Gemini, and the stock pops 6%

OpenAI, a relatively small upstart company, seriously upstaged Google when it fatefully released ChatGPT in November 2022.

When would the tech giants, particularly Google, follow?

Now we know.

On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis introduced the world to Gemini, Google's new generative AI model, which it describes as its "most capable and general model yet."

It's early, but initial reactions suggest Gemini is putting in a good showing against GPT-4, the latest large language model powering ChatGPT.

First, some numbers that illustrate Gemini's performance chops.

Google says its most powerful Ultra model, rolling out next year, "exceeds current state-of-the-art results on 30 of the 32 widely-used academic benchmarks" to assess large language models.