The acceleration of AI deployments has gotten so absurdly out of hand that a draft post I started a week ago about a new development is now out of date. The culprit this time is Google. Last week, Google rebranded their LLM chatbot Bard into Gemini and announced the launch of a paid-for-tier service for users to activate their most powerful language model, Ultra 1.0. I had a blog post ruminating about what it means to have three companies release GPT-4 level language models now: OpenAI’s GPT-4, Microsoft’s CoPilot, and Google’s Gemini. I wasn’t even able to put the finishing touches on that post before Google announced Ultra 1.5!
The Exhausting Pace of AI: Google's Ultra Leap
The Exhausting Pace of AI: Google's Ultra…
The Exhausting Pace of AI: Google's Ultra Leap
The acceleration of AI deployments has gotten so absurdly out of hand that a draft post I started a week ago about a new development is now out of date. The culprit this time is Google. Last week, Google rebranded their LLM chatbot Bard into Gemini and announced the launch of a paid-for-tier service for users to activate their most powerful language model, Ultra 1.0. I had a blog post ruminating about what it means to have three companies release GPT-4 level language models now: OpenAI’s GPT-4, Microsoft’s CoPilot, and Google’s Gemini. I wasn’t even able to put the finishing touches on that post before Google announced Ultra 1.5!