Alphabet’s Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its conversational artificial intelligence software Gemini, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Gemini is reportedly designed to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
For Google, the Gemini rollout is risky. ChatGPT from Microsoft-backed OpenAI took the tech world by storm last year, and Google is investing more in generative AI this year to catch up.
Gemini is a collection of large language models that power functions ranging from chatbots to summarizing text or generating raw text based on content a user wants to read, such as an email draft, music lyrics or a news report, the report said.
It is also expected to help software engineers write code and generate raw images based on what users ask to see.
The report states that Google is currently making a relatively large version of Gemini available to developers, but not the largest version it is developing, which will be closer to GPT-4.
The search and advertising giant plans to make Gemini available to enterprises through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service.
Google did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
Last month, the company introduced generative AI in its search tool for users in India and Japan, which will display text or visual results, including snippets, based on prompts. It also offers AI-powered tools to enterprise customers at a monthly price of $30 (roughly Rs. 2,500) per user.
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