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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video

Last week Google introduced Gemini Pro 1.5, an enormous upgrade to their Gemini series of AI models.

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Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 (via) The big news here is about context length: Gemini 1.5 (a Mixture-of-Experts model) will do 128,000 tokens in general release, available in limited preview with a 1 million token context and has shown promising research results with 10 million tokens!

1 million tokens is 700,000 words or around 7 novels—also described in the blog post as an hour of video or 11 hours of audio. # 15th February 2024, 4:17 pm

Google’s Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications. Ethan Mollick reviews the new Google Gemini Advanced—a rebranded Bard, released today, that runs on the GPT-4 competitive Gemini Ultra model.

“GPT-4 [...] has been the dominant AI for well over a year, and no other model has come particularly close. Prior to Gemini, we only had one advanced AI model to look at, and it is hard drawing conclusions with a dataset of one. Now there are two, and we can learn a few things.”

I like Ethan’s use of the term “tasting notes” here. Reminds me of how Matt Webb talks about being a language model sommelier. # 8th February 2024, 3:10 pm

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