What Is Google Gemini (Formerly Bard)
Search Enterprise AI, Thursday, June 6th, 2024
Google Gemini -- formerly known as Bard -- is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot tool designed by Google to simulate human conversations using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning.
In addition to supplementing Google Search, Gemini can be integrated into websites, messaging platforms or applications to provide realistic, natural language responses to user questions.
Google Gemini is a family of multimodal AI large language models (LLMs) that have capabilities in language, audio, code and video understanding.
Gemini 1.0 was announced on Dec. 6, 2023, and built by Alphabet's Google DeepMind business unit, which is focused on advanced AI research and development. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is credited with helping to develop the Gemini LLMs, alongside other Google staff.
At its release, Gemini was the most advanced set of LLMs at Google, powering Bard before Bard's renaming and superseding the company's Pathways Language Model (Palm 2). As was the case with Palm 2, Gemini was integrated into multiple Google technologies to provide generative AI capabilities.