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Gemini Ultra is, in Google’s words, “far more capable at highly complex tasks with a range of applications like coding, logical reasoning, following nuanced instructions and creative collaboration, amongst many others”. It allows for longer prompts, improved context understanding and is multi-modal (can engage in chats about images you upload).

Gemini Advanced is the rebranded Bard chatbot, now powered by the latest Gemini Ultra model. It is also part of Google One, meaning subscribers will get 2TB of storage and the rest of Google’s One features.

Notably, it will soon also included Gemini in Google Workspace apps like Docs, Slides, Sheets and Meet, replacing the Duet AI brand which already had similar features inside these apps.

The pricing for Gemini Advanced is on the same level as ChatGPT Plus (20$/month). There’s also a 2-month free trial if you’re already a Google One subscriber. The free version of Gemini is still powered by Gemini Pro 1.0.

The rebrand isn’t really surprising considering the mediocre performance of Bard compared to ChatGPT (particularly GPT-4). The company likely considers it easier to start “from scratch” than recovering customer perceptions of Bard as a second-rate chatbot.

Gemini Advanced will be available in 150 countries and only in English in this first version. The company lists Japanese and Korean as upcoming languages on the roadmap for the chatbot.

I’ve just subscribed to Gemini Ultra and will be using it extensively over the next weeks. I’m as excited as you are to see if it lives up to the hype and how it compares to ChatGPT. Stay tuned for my thoughts and comparisons.

Why it matters: Since Bard was the second-biggest chatbot for productivity, Gemini is now ChatGPT’s largest competitor.

Gemini Ultra has been touted as Google’s very best LLM to date, reportedly outperforming GPT-4 on several benchmarks.

Since many people are already Google One users (like myself), upgrading to AI Premium is actually cheaper than paying for ChatGPT plus. So in this sense, Google has the upper hand on pricing, which might get a lot of new customers in the door.

Thus, OpenAI’s next move might hinge on the performance of the model and how well users receive the new chatbot. If Gemini Ultra performs well and/or wins market share quickly, it might push OpenAI to release new updates and models (like GPT-5) sooner. On the contrary, if it flops (like Bard arguably did), it’ll reinforce the number 1 position of OpenAI.

Kristian from All About AI has done some quick tests on Ultra vs GPT-4 on some fairly simple tasks. He wasn’t too impressed with the new model, and even questioning whether or not his Gemini Advanced account had actually been updated with the new Ultra model.

Keep in mind that this was just a quick test/early impressions of Ultra by one person, and not a comprehensive test where any conclusions can or should be drawn about which model performs best.

Some of his takeaways:

My thoughts: I’ve played around with Gemini Advanced for a 15 minutes. While I wasn’t particularly impressed with the image generation, it worked. In other words, the issue above seems to happen only for some users.

However, I kept getting the “I’m just a language model, I can’t do that”-type of response A LOT, even for simple text-based tasks like “rewrite this paragraph”.. Let’s hope this is related to some early bugs that Google is currently fixing.

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