From Google Bard To Google Gemini: What Has Changed?

Google Bard was a tough competitor for ChatGPT when it was launched last year. However, the search giant has now undergone a major overhaul and rebranded the chatbot to Google Gemini. Along with the name change, Google has introduced several new features and refreshed the existing ones. Here is a comprehensive list of all the changes that have been made from Google Bard to Google Gemini.

Google Bard becomes Google Gemini

Google has renamed Bard to Gemini, the same name it has given to its large language model, which powers the AI chatbot, and we’ll talk about it later. For now, Google says that “Bard has been the best way for people to directly experience our most capable models. To reflect the advanced tech at its core, Bard will now simply be called Gemini”. We feel Gemini is a much better name than Bard, not only in how it sounds but also in how it reflects Google’s aim with AI.

The tech that is being used to power Gemini has also been upgraded significantly. Where Bard was earlier slated to get the Gemini LLM upgrade, it’s Gemini itself is now evolving to be more than just the models. “It supports an entire ecosystem – from the products that billions of people use daily, to the APIs and platforms helping developers and businesses innovate.”

Gemini has been designed to be natively multimodal, pre-trained from the start on different modalities. Then, it is fine-tuned with additional multimodal data to refine its effectiveness further. “This helps Gemini seamlessly understand and reason about all kinds of inputs from the ground up, far better than existing multimodal models – and its capabilities are state of the art in nearly every domain”, said Demis Hassabis, CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind whenGemini was first announcedlast year.

In addition, Duet AI, which was powering AI features in Google’s other services, will become Gemini for Workspace, and soon, consumers with the Google One AI Premium plan can use Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet. For Cloud customers, Duet AI will also become Gemini in the coming weeks. Gemini will help companies boost productivity, developers code faster, and organizations protect themselves from cyber attacks, along with other benefits.