Google Races to Regain AI Dominance with New Model Gemini, But Questions Remain About Pace and Societal Impact
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Google named its AI model "Gemini" meaning "twin" to represent merging its two major AI teams, Google Brain and DeepMind, to compete with OpenAI.
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Google pioneered transformer architectures underlying generative AI, but let OpenAI take the lead while it focused on search, risking its AI dominance.
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Gemini is Google's biggest recent effort to retake the AI crown, with impressive demos, though some claims were debunked.
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Gemini risks being outdated by the time it launches fully next year as competitors rapidly iterate.
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The AI race risks being more about competition than benefitting society, with uncertain societal impacts.