The Download: Google’s Gemini is here, and Sundar Pichai talks AI

Hype about Gemini, Google DeepMind’s long-rumored response to OpenAI’s GPT-4, has been constructing for months. Now, the corporate has lastly revealed what it has been engaged on in secret all this time. Was the hype justified? Sure—and no.

Gemini is Google’s largest AI launch but—its push to tackle rivals OpenAI and Microsoft within the race for AI supremacy. There isn’t any doubt that the mannequin is pitched as best-in-class throughout a variety of capabilities—an “all the things machine.”

However whereas it’s an enormous step for Google, however not essentially a large leap for the sphere as an entire. Judging from its demos, it does many issues very nicely—however few issues that we haven’t seen earlier than. Read the full story.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Gemini and the approaching age of AI

This final yr has largely been outlined by the AI releases from one firm: OpenAI. The rollout of DALL-E and GPT-3.5 final yr, adopted by GPT-4 this yr, dominated the sector and kicked off an arms race between startups and tech giants alike

Now, with the discharge of Gemini, Google has thrown its hat into the ring. The brand new AI mannequin displays years of efforts from inside Google, overseen and pushed by its CEO, Sundar Pichai.

Our editor-in-chief Mat Honan sat down with Pichai at Google’s places of work in Mountain View, California, on the eve of Gemini’s launch to debate what it can imply for the corporate, its merchandise, AI, and society writ giant. Read the full interview.

How carbon removing expertise is sort of a time machine

By burning fossil fuels, we’ve launched greenhouse gases by the gigaton. There’s rather a lot we will (and have to) do to sluggish and finally cease these planet-warming emissions. However carbon removing expertise has a unique promise: turning the clock again.