On December 6, local time, Google announced the launch of Gemini, the “largest, strongest, and most versatile” new large-scale language model. Gemini will be the first large-scale model to run directly on the phone, being used in the Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone and the chatbot Bard. Google plans to license Gemini to customers through Google Cloud and will integrate it with other products within Google services in the coming months.

Google has invented many computer science concepts that make generative AI applications possible, but it was once left in a passive position due to the chatbot ChatGPT released by OpenAI last year. Faced with the threat posed by OpenAI and one of Google''''s biggest competitors, Microsoft, Google launched its own chat robot Bard in September this year. Soon after, OpenAI released a more powerful AI software, GPT-4, which became a major benchmark in the AI field. Now, in response to GPT-4, Google launches Gemini