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Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024-14:37

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Google changed the name of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from Bard to Gemini, announced that starting today this technology will be available in a new Gemini app for Android and through the Google app on iOS, and also

launched a paid "advanced" version

.

Shortly after the popularity of Open IA's ChatGPT, Goggle launched its Bard chatbot in early 2023 and at the end of the year announced its Gemini multimodal model.

The vice president and general director of Gemini experiences and Google assistant,

Sissie Hsiao

, said in a press conference that, beyond the name and logo change, the chatbot - which is powered by the Gemini Pro language model (LLM) and is available globally in 40 languages ​​- is the same.

"Self-awareness is a tricky thing for models, so if (Gemini) is asked on Thursday 'What's your name?'

he might say, 'I'm Bard

,'" Hsiao noted.

Google's AI, an assistant in a free app

Today Google is also launching in the United States the Gemini mobile application for Android and access to Gemini from the Google application on iOS, in which users can

write, speak and share images with the chatbot.

"It's a very important first step toward creating a true AI assistant," Hsiao stressed, explaining that users can take a photo of a flat tire and Gemini will respond with a step-by-

step tutorial on how to change it.

In the case of Android phones, Gemini can also become the phone's main assistant, while users can activate Gemini with the center button of their phone or by saying:

"Hey Google" or "Ok Google."

Starting next week, Google will launch app access to Gemini

across the Asia-Pacific region

in English, Japanese, and Korean, with more countries and languages ​​including Spanish coming soon.

Gemini Advanced, the paid version

Another Google launch today in 150 countries is Gemini Advanced, where the chatbot has access to LLM Ultra 1.0 and, meanwhile, is capable of responding - for now only in English - to more complex tasks, such as programming

, logical reasoning or creative collaboration

.

"Gemini Advanced not only allows you to type longer prompts, but you can also

better understand the context

of your previous prompts," explains Hsiao.

The subscription to access Gemini Advanced

will cost 19.99 per month and

also gives access to the Google One premium package and its 2 terabytes of Google storage

"We're excited for people to start testing Gemini Advanced. So we have a free two-month trial that will be available on Thursday," announced

Shimrit Ben-Yair,

vice president of Google Photos and Google One.

In addition, the company announced that it is working so that "soon" Google One AI Premium users will be able to use Gemini in

Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet

.

With these announcements, Google tries to demonstrate that it is still in the fight to

become the reference company

when it comes to chatbots, a fight in which other heavyweights such as OpenAI and Microsoft are also participating, which also offers a subscription to use AI in your Microsoft 365 applications.