Meet Gemini 1.5 & more! [Video]

Last week Google unveiled some mind-blowing updates to its AI offerings which I can’t wait to explore! These updates include the brand-new Gemini 1.5 Flash, impressive enhancements to Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the exciting progress on “Project Astra”, Google’s vision for the next generation of AI assistants.

Introducing Gemini 1.5 Flash: Speed and Efficiency at Scale

Say hello to Gemini 1.5 Flash, the latest addition to Google’s family of AI models. Designed to be faster and more efficient, 1.5 Flash is perfect for handling tasks at scale. Although it’s lighter than the 1.5 Pro, it still packs a punch with its ability to perform multimodal reasoning across vast amounts of information.

“Gemini 1.5 Flash is a powerhouse for summarisation, chat applications, image and video captioning, data extraction from long documents and tables, and more,” said Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. “It’s been trained by 1.5 Pro through a process called ‘distillation,’ where the essential knowledge and skills from …