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Google’s Bard AI chatbot gets a major makeover and rebrand as Gemini

02/08/202402/07/2024 L. Green

The constant evolution of the technology has led the company to rerelease it in an upcoming launch. The days of Google’s Bard AI chatbot are numbered, as reports indicate the tech giant will be dumping that name and rebranding as Gemini for an upcoming release. The new name was chosen from the powerful artificial intelligence model powering the tech. The new Gemini AI chatbot will be launching in coming days as a premium subscription. It will also be part of a heavier push into smartphones with Googe’s own Pixel 8…

Artificial intelligence scientists leave Google to launch their own startup

01/25/202401/24/2024 L. Green

The startup is called Holistic upon its creation and could focus on developing a new AI model. Two artificial intelligence scientists from DeepMind, Google’s AI subsidiary are reportedly in talks with investors to launch their own AI startup in Paris. According to Bloomberg News, Karl Tuyls and Laurent Sifre are considering the startup over Google. The two artificial intelligence scientists had already announced that they would be leaving DeepMind by the time this article was written. They are in negotiations in a financing round for a startup that could bring…

Google to stop geofence warrants by letting users store location data on devices

12/20/202312/19/2023 Stephanie Beck

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Law enforcement have been accessing location data stored in massive amounts by tech giants. Google will soon be providing users with the opportunity to store their location data on their devices instead of on its own servers, putting to the end the geofence warrants trend it played a large part in creating. Use of these warrants has recently taken off. This will effectively cease a surveillance practice that has long existed and that has permitted law enforcement such as police to be able to access the company’s massive stores of…

Will Google’s Gemini take artificial intelligence to the next level?

12/18/202312/15/2023 Jesse Collins

Though OpenAI has been the solid leader in generative AI technology, Google aims to change that. Google is hoping that its Gemini generative artificial intelligence will be a game changer in the category that has been led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT by a large margin since 2022. ChatGPT has been leading the way by a considerable amount since it was first introduced. The latest version of GPT-4 is the latest LLM of OpenAI and is widely thought of as the most capable generative artificial intelligence model currently available. That said, Google…

Google and OpenAI both announce artificial intelligence delays

12/06/202312/05/2023 Julie Campbell

The companies that had been pushing forward as fast as they could are slowing things down. Google first unveiled its Gemini AI project at I/O 2023, intending the technology to be an artificial intelligence rival to GPT-4 from OpenAI. Google has now canceled the launch events for Gemini AI scheduled for this month. Beyond the cancellation of the launch events, Google has delayed the launch of the artificial intelligence competitor to GPT-4 in January 2024. At I/O 2023, the company called Gemini a foundational model that had “impressive multimodal capabilities,”…