Dozens of New Features Announced at Google I/O 2024
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If you've ever spent hours scrolling through a feed to find a picture, Google offers an AI solution to address this issue.
Using Gemini, users can employ conversational prompts in Google Photos to find the images they are looking for.
This feature is named Ask Photos. Google announced that this feature will be launched later this summer with more capabilities in the future.
In the example provided by Google, a user wants to see their daughter's progress as a swimmer over time, so they ask this question in Google Photos, which automatically compiles the highlights for them.
Gemini
Google announced that Gemini 1.5 Flash offers high speed and cost efficiency as an alternative to Gemini 1.5 Pro while still maintaining high capabilities.
Meanwhile, Gemini 1.5 Pro has been upgraded to provide higher quality responses in various areas such as translation, reasoning, programming, and more.
Google announced a context window of 1 million for Gemini Advanced, allowing consumers to receive AI assistance for large documents like 1,500-page PDFs or 100 emails.
Currently, Google is previewing a 2 million context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash to developers through a waiting list on Google AI Studio.
Interestingly, Google announced Gemini Nano with Multimodality. This model is designed to run on smartphones and has been expanded to understand images, text, and spoken language.
Speaking of Gemma, the Gemini model family has received significant upgrades with the launch of Gemma 2, optimized for TPUs and GPUs with 27B parameters. Additionally, Google announced the inclusion of PaliGemma in the Gemma model family.
AI in Android
Circle to Search, which previously could only perform Google searches by circling images, videos, and text on a phone screen, can now "help students with their homework."
Google says this feature will work with various topics ranging from mathematics to physics and will eventually be able to process complex problems like symbolic formulas, diagrams, and more.
