Google Wherefore Art Thou
The first GPT-4 beating model
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Here’s today at a glance:
🧬 Google Gemini Pro 1.5 Roundup
Just to be clear, Gemini Pro 1.5 (hereafter referred to as “Gemini”) is not Bard and is also not Gemini Ultra, the subscription ChatGPT competitor launched last week. Instead, Gemini is currently a developer preview API of a very competent multi-modal language model.
TLDR
Gemini can take in lots of data—text, audio, and video—into its context window
Can retrieve single facts from the data near flawlessly
Can retrieve and make sense of multiple facts from data quite well
Given its strength in long context, you can give it lots of examples on how to do something, and its corresponding performance increases
It’s better than GPT-4 for many business use cases
It’s slow (up to 90 seconds for inference)
Most of its strengths and weaknesses stem from the long context
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