Google Gemini is the latest AI system developed by Google’s DeepMind, the same team behind notable breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold. It’s part of the broader effort to create artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI systems that can understand, learn, and perform tasks across a wide range of disciplines, just like a human.
One of the creators of Gemini, Geoffrey Hinton, recently won the Nobel Prize. See also Who is Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-creator they recently acqui-hired back into Google.
While traditional AI models are often trained to excel in one specific area, Google Gemini is designed to be multi-modal. This means it can handle multiple types of input—text, images, video, and even audio—and generate meaningful output from them. Imagine a tool that can write a blog post, summarize a video, and help you design a visual presentation all at once. That’s the kind of versatility Gemini is aiming for.
