By Aduragbemi Omiyale
Developers and enterprises can now begin to build with Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform designed for them, Gemini Pro.
Recall that last week, Google said it was introducing three categories of its enhanced AI platform, Gemini Ultra, Nano and Pro.
Google described Gemini as “our largest and most capable AI model and the next step in our journey to make AI more helpful for everyone.”
In a statement obtained by Business Post, it was disclosed that the first version of Gemini Pro is now accessible via the Gemini API and is “available for developers and enterprises to build for your use cases,” with Google promising to further fine-tune it in the “weeks and months ahead as we listen and learn from your feedback.”
Explaining the key features of Gemini Pro, Google said it “outperforms other similarly-sized models on research benchmarks,” and is “free to use right now, within limits, and it will be competitively priced.”
It further stated that the model comes with calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval custom knowledge grounding and chat functionality features, supporting 38 languages across 180+ countries and territories worldwide.
Gemini Pro accepts text as input and generates text as output and helps developers “build apps that run anywhere” because it supports “Python, Android (Kotlin), Node.js, Swift and JavaScript.”
As for the pricing, Google disclosed that Gemini Pro is free with up to 60 requests per minute, making it suitable for most app development needs.
“Vertex AI developers can try the same models, with the same rate limits, at no cost until general availability early next year, after which there will be a charge per 1,000 characters or per image across Google AI Studio and Vertex AI,” it stated.
The tech giant also said early next year, it would launch Gemini Ultra, its largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, after further fine-tuning, safety testing and gathering valuable feedback from partners.
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