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Google Gemini Ai Gets Upgrade

Ai developments at Google are certainly happening at pace with several new upgrades on its Gemini AI platform announced this week. These include Gems, personalized AI assistants, and Imagen 3, an improved image generation model. With Gems, subscribers can create their own specialised assistants that will be able to perform tasks such as writing, planning, coding, learning, and

Google Gemini Ai Gets Upgrade

Google Gemini Ai Gets Upgrade

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Ai developments at Google are certainly happening at pace with several new upgrades on  its Gemini AI platform announced this week.

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These include Gems,  personalized AI assistants, and Imagen 3, an improved image generation model.

With Gems, subscribers can create their own specialised assistants that will be able to perform tasks such as writing, planning, coding, learning, and content creation, and also provides a 1 million token context window capable of handling up to 1500 pages, the largest context window available today.

These new innovations will likely provide further impetus for business applications and adaptions within corporate structures by addressing limitation issues and user ease faced by other LLM Ai models. The adoption of the personalised assistants is expected to irradiate problematic errors or responses that are common in several gen Ai models.

Google is also upgrading its image generation capabilities with Imagen 3. The image creating tool will be available to all Gemini subscribers and the new version provides better image  creation from text prompts. Google has also included human image generation functionality, with restrictions, in the new model.

Other safe-guards concerning deep-fake imagery are included in the model and Google has incorporated SynthID watermarking technology into the platform. With much concern over ethical Ai usage, security is of critical importance moving forward.

The SynthID toolkit watermarks and identifies AI-generated content. These tools embed digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text or video. In each modality, SynthID’s watermarking technique is imperceptible to humans but detectable for identification.

The overall impact of the new upgrades is significant, making a definite competitive edge and will set a new standard in the Gen Ai marketplace.

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Greg Stewart

Reporting for Business Tech Africa on the funding, tools and strategy shaping the continent's founders and SMEs.

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