Artificial intelligence - Google: Gemini AI technology open to external developers
In the competition for artificial intelligence, Google is stepping up the pace and lowering prices. The company has opened up access to its latest AI technology to external developers on several levels so that they can write specific programs based on the new technology.
A week earlier, the company had surprisingly presented the model called Gemini. It should not only be faster than the GPT-4 model from Microsoft partner OpenAI, but also significantly more versatile. Gemini can not only generate texts in a chatbot, but can also solve certain problems and make situation-dependent decisions. It can also record information from photos and videos.
Attractive offers for developers
Faster than expected, Google is now giving external developers the opportunity to write their own applications based on Gemini. This includes the Google AI Studio development environment, which can be used to build smaller AI applications.
As an example, Google demonstrated the programming of an app for real estate agents that can write a detailed description of the property based on a video recording of a tour of a house. Gemini applications were also demonstrated in Vertex AI, an AI service from the Google Cloud for companies, as well as in Duet AI, an AI solution for Google's Office applications.
However, the internet company is not only relying on the performance of Gemini technology in the race against Microsoft and OpenAI, but has also launched a price war. Thomas Kurian, the head of Google Cloud, announced a comprehensive price reduction. The technology can be used free of charge up to a limit that is sufficient for many applications. For the enterprise solution Vertex AI, the fees for input will be reduced to 25 percent of the original price (0.00025 US dollars per 1000 letters or 0.0025 US dollars per image) after a free trial period. For text output, the price will be halved to 0.0005 dollars per 1000 characters.
A race in the AI industry
Google was long regarded as the leader in artificial intelligence. But then the internet pioneer fell behind. A year ago, the start-up OpenAI surprisingly took the lead with the release of its chat bot ChatGPT. The software caused quite a stir because it can form sentences like a human. It is trained with huge amounts of data and estimates word by word how a sentence could continue. However, this entails the risk that it may provide completely incorrect information. All the major AI players are currently working on teaching their systems to be more factually accurate.
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Source: www.stern.de
