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Gemini

● Core

Google's family of multimodal language models, designed to compete with GPT-4 across text, image, audio, and video.

Think of it like

Google's all-in-one AI, bringing their search and ads expertise to the era of LLMs.

Example

Gemini Ultra (2023) matches GPT-4 on benchmarks; Gemini Nano runs on-device; integrated into Google Workspace.

How it actually works

Gemini is multimodal from the ground up (not bolted-on image support like early GPT-4). It's integrated into Google's ecosystem: search, Gmail, Docs. Trained on diverse data including Google's own systems.

For product teams

Leverage: integrated into Google's products and advertising platform. Long-term competitive moat.

For engineers

Multimodal from the ground up; means reasoning across images, video, audio more naturally.

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