The most sophisticated artificial intelligence model that Alphabet has released can process text, audio, and video data, among other types of information.

The much awaited AI model from Google’s owner, named Gemini, can comprehend information more deeply and with higher sophistication than Google’s previous technologies, the company stated.

“This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post.

Ever since the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT around a year ago, Google has been vying to develop AI software that can compete with that of the Microsoft-backed startup.

Google announced plans to deliver its most advanced version of Gemini through Bard early next year. On Wednesday, Google incorporated some of the new Gemini model technology to its AI assistant Bard.

According to Alphabet, there will be three iterations of Gemini, with varying processing power requirements. The business stated that the lowest version will function well on mobile devices while the most powerful version is intended to work in data centres.

Although Gemini is the largest AI model that the company’s Google DeepMind AI section has assisted in creating, Eli Collins, vice president of product at DeepMind, told reporters that it is “significantly” less expensive to offer to customers than the company’s previous, larger models.

“So it’s not just more capable, it’s also far more efficient,” Collins said. The latest model still requires a substantial amount of computing power to train, but Google is improving on its process, he added.

A new generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), or custom-built AI chips, was also announced by Alphabet. The Cloud TPU v5p is assembled in 8,960 chip pods and is intended for training massive AI models.

Large language models can be trained on the company’s new customer processors almost three times faster than on previous iterations. According to the business, developers can now access the new chips in “preview” form as of Wednesday.

(Adapted from TBSNews.net)