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Google is following the old Silicon Valley mantra of “move fast and break things” to make up for lost time in the artificial intelligence race.
Google recently released Gemini 1.5, which takes it to the next level! This version deposed Anthropic's brief reign as the leading Foundation mode. But as you read this, OpenAI will also be making announcements about improvements to ChatGPT. Now it's become a perpetual leapfrogging problem, which is good for us as users, but also makes it hard for us to keep up! Note: I will follow up with a post about ChatGPT/DALL-E updates.
Here's why it's important…
1 million tokens: It's interesting. I imagine Dr. Evil raising his pinky finger to his mouth and saying, “One million tokens.” Gemini 1.5 has a significantly increased context window, capable of handling up to 1 million tokens. Treat markup as input in a single contextual window, either as a word or as part of a word. This is a huge increase from previous models such as Gemini 1.0 (32k tokens) and GPT-4 (128k tokens). It also surpassed Anthropic’s contextual record of 200,000 tokens.
One million token context windows enable Gemini 1.5 to understand and process large amounts of data. This unlocks multi-mode super tips and higher quality output. 1 million token context windows can support extremely long books, documents, scripts, code libraries, video/audio files, specifically:
1 hour video 🎥
11 hours of audio🎶🎙️
30,000 strokes of code🧑💻
700,000 words of text⌨️
Google's Gemini 1.5 surpasses Anthropic's 200k token support, with the ability to support a massive 1 million tokens.
That's…
1 hour of video 🎥
11 hours of audio 🎶 🎙️
30,000 lines of code 🧑💻
700,000 words of text ⌨️Here's a visual reference guide… pic.twitter.com/Axfr5eS199
— Brian Solis (@briansolis) May 11, 2024
This long context capability enables entirely new use cases that were previously impossible, such as analyzing complete books, long documents, or movies.
Chrome support: As Google's long dominance of web search fades into confusion (more on the future of search here), Google is at least integrating Gemini prompts directly into the Chrome browser. How is this done 👇
🚨Google Chrome just received an AI upgrade.
You can now prompt Gemini directly in the search bar. I recorded this video to help…
Step 1: Open a new browser tab/window
Step 2: Type "@"
Step 3: PromptThat's it!
Let me know what you think. pic.twitter.com/ClHK0kaD94
— Brian Solis (@briansolis) May 5, 2024
More countries, more languages supported: Gemini 1.5 has been launched in an additional 100 countries and now supports 9 additional languages. Supported languages include English, Japanese and Korean: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German , Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Sri Lanka Lovinian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Google has conducted a rigorous security assessment of Gemini 1.5 to analyze potential risks and hazards before release. Novel security testing techniques were developed specifically for 1.5's long context functionality.
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