The narrative baked into Gemini appears to be that Pro achieved comparable quality to Ultra with less compute, so they yanked Ultra all together.
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Free GPT-4 Could Accelerate AI Startup Growth Ecosystem
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GPT4 being free for everyone could pump all AI startups in a massive way As if billions of users are suddenly onboarded onto AI and "get it" This is kinda related to the Starbucks effect: When a Starbucks opens up in a neighborhood, local indie coffee shops were expected to https://
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GPT-4o Widens Lead in LMSYS Chatbot Arena Competition
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The LLM wars intensify as GPT-4o takes a significant lead – The gap is widening again after @OpenAI
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Restricted AI Access: Two Out of Three Platforms Require Special Permission
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2 out of 3 i had to apply for access for and am expressly prohibited from tweeting generations haha
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Google I/O 2024 Recap in 60 Seconds
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i/o recap https://
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Complete List of Google’s Gemini AI Models and Their Availability
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ok my running list of Glorious Geminis and Where to Find Them: Gemini Ultra (only in Gemini Advanced)
Gemini Pro (in API preview)
Gemini Flash (in API preview)
Gemini Nano (only in Pixel and Chrome 126)
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Google Labs collecting user prompts for VideoFX AI development
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ICYMI: Google Labs is collecting prompts to demo VideoFX capabilities (same as OpenAI did with Sora I suppose) Hopefully, we will see some real examples
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Google Gemini 2M Token Context Window Advances On-Device AI
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Congratulations to all my Google friends for the cool announcements at I/O! I'm personally looking forward to Gemini with 2 million token input context window and better support for on-device AI — should open up new opportunities for application builders!
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Google Chrome Integrating Nano AI Model in Canary Build
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Chrome 126 will get the Nano model integrated. It is a current Canary build but I don't see anything new by default. Will have to check feature flags 👀 https://t.co/wdSScDMk8m
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 14 mai 2024Chrome 126 will get the Nano model integrated. It is a current Canary build but I don't see anything new by default. Will have to check feature flags

