Google launches Gemini, its largest and 'multimodal' AI model, says it performs better than existing rivals

In its most ambitious effort to compete in the rapidly growing field of generative artificial intelligence, Google has introduced ‘Gemini’ as the company’s “largest and most capable AI model”, CNN reported on Wednesday. “This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post, according to CNN. Google’s Gemini model outperformed rival AI models in testing across more than two dozen benchmarks commonly used by AI researchers to evaluate an algorithm’s reading comprehension, mathematical ability, and multistep reasoning skills, the company said. Taking to X, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also shared about the launch of Gemini, posting, “Introducing Gemini 1.0, our most capable and general AI model yet.