Google rebrands Bard to Gemini, launches a paid version based on a more powerful AI model

A year ago to the day Google announced Bard – its AI-powered ChatGPT rival. Bard was powered by the LaMDA model, but Google switched to Gemini in December. Now the service will adopt the name of the model that powers it. Goodbye, Bard. Hello, Gemini.

Gemini is now powered by the Gemini Pro 1.0 model. It is available in over 230 countries and knows over 40 languages. This is available through a web interface – here’s the link – but you can also use the new Gemini app.

It’s a chat bot and you can talk to it over text or voice. However, Gemini is “mulit-modal”, meaning that you can also...


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