Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini in race with OpenAI, Microsoft

Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini in race with OpenAI, Microsoft

Alphabet’s Google rebranded its chatbot and rolled out a new subscription plan that will give people access to its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model, placing it squarely in competition with rival OpenAI. Google’s chatbot, which had been known as Bard and was its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will now be called Gemini. A version … Read more

Google is launching a powerful new AI app for your Android phone

Google is launching a powerful new AI app for your Android phone

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Remember Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT? Well, it is now officially called Gemini. Also, all those fancy AI features that previously went by the name Duet AI have been folded under the Gemini branding. In case you haven’t been following up all the AI development flood, the name is derived … Read more

Samsung to integrate Baidu’s AI model into new Galaxy S24 handsets, as mainland Chinese rivals push new smartphones with similar tech

Samsung to integrate Baidu’s AI model into new Galaxy S24 handsets, as mainland Chinese rivals push new smartphones with similar tech

Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images or videos via hand gestures, with results provided by the Chinese online search … Read more

12 Zodiac Signs: Dates and Personality Traits of Each Star Sign

12 Zodiac Signs: Dates and Personality Traits of Each Star Sign

As a professional astrologer, people ask me all types of questions. Of the most common curiosities is “what are the best zodiac signs?” along with its evil twin, “what are the worst zodiac signs?” While I appreciate any and all astrological inquiries, including zodiac signs compatibility, let me set the record straight: In astrology, there … Read more

Google launches Gemini, upping the stakes in the global AI race

Google launches Gemini, upping the stakes in the global AI race

Gemini’s biggest advances will not come until early next year when its Ultra model will be used to launch “Bard Advanced”, a juiced-up version of the chatbot that initially will only be offered to a test audience. Elon Musk’s xAI start-up seeks to raise US$1 billion in equity The AI, at first, will only work … Read more

Geminid meteor shower and new comet-linked display to illuminate December night sky

Geminid meteor shower and new comet-linked display to illuminate December night sky

In a celestial spectacle set to unfold on the night of December 14, sky gazers are in for a rare double treat as the annual Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak, coinciding with the unexpected debut of a new meteor shower associated with comet 46P/Wirtanen. A recent study by a team of international researchers revealed … Read more

New Google AI Model “Outperforms” ChatGPT in Most Tests

New Google AI Model “Outperforms” ChatGPT in Most Tests

A new Google artificial intelligence (AI) model, referred to as Gemini, reportedly outperforms ChatGPT in most tests and displays “advanced reasoning” across multiple formats. Described by Google as “its most capable model yet”, Gemini is the first to be announced since last month’s global AI safety summit, at which tech firms agreed to collaborate with … Read more