At its Google I/O developer showcase on Tuesday, Google unveiled a slew of new artificial intelligence tools as well as AI models. AI was so central to Google I/O that CEO Sundar Pichai counted the number of times someone said “AI,” which came out to a generous 121. Keeping track of everything can be pretty challenging, so hereโs a quick breakdown.
Google AI Tools
- Veo: Project VEO is Googleโs video generation tool, which lets you create videos based on video, image or text prompts.ย
- AI Teammates: Google’s Project Gemini-powered “virtual teammateโ — which it called Chip as a sample in an on-stage demo — can be used for situations like checking up on the progress of a work project, as it demonstrated on stage.
- Project Astra: Google’s Project Astra, which is sort of like an evolution of Google Glasses, employs your phoneโs camera and AI to do things like find your lost keys or misplaced glasses and locate things making sound.
- Trip planning: While not an entirely new tool per se, Google teased its Gemini AI assistantโs travel planning capabilities by having it generate a personalized trip, complete with flight itineraries and hotel reservations.ย
- Fraud call monitoring: Gemini can monitor incoming phone calls and detect suspicious scam calls by displaying a warning pop-up message.ย
- Circle to Search: You can use a gesture to select something on your phone — by circling it or highlighting it, for instance — and get additional information. Circle to Search is poised to become available on 200 million Android devices by the end of 2024.
- TalkBack: The TalkBack screen reader narrates whatโs on a screen for assistance to low-vision and blind users.
- Gmail AI features: The companyโs email client gets a bevy of Gemini-powered AI features including Smart Reply to offer personalized answers based on an email thread and suggested replies.
- AI Overviews: While Googleโs Search Generative Experience, or SGE, which summarizes information at the top of your Google search results page, isnโt new, itโs rolling out to all users in the US.ย
- Imagen 3: Googleโs text-to-image generator, Imagen 3, can create pictures prompts.
- SynthID: SynthID lets you watermark AI-generated pictures and videos.
Google AI models
- Gemini 1.5 Pro model: Google Gemini — its ChatGPT rival — benefits from an update to make it more intelligent, conversational and adept at handling complicated tasks yet slightly slow when answering queries.
- Gemini 1.5 Flash: As its name suggests, Gemini 1.5 Flash prioritizes quick answers because itโs a lighter-weight version of Gemini when compared with 1.5 Pro.
For more information, check out our comparison of Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash.
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