Google Rebrands Bard to Gemini; Debuts Ultra 1.0 Model & Android App

Feb. 8, 2024

Google Bard is Now Gemini

Google says that all your Bard tools and features are still available in Gemini. In fact, Google has improved the user interface with fewer visual distractions, better legibility, and easy navigation. The company says the rebranding is a reflection of Google’s commitment to bring access to the family of best AI models. You can still open bard.google.com (visit), which now redirects to Google Gemini, or directly navigate to the newgemini.google.com(visit) domain.

And yes, Gemini is still free to use and the company has opened up Gemini (formerly Bard) access to Canadian users as well, in both English and French.

Gemini Ultra should bemuch better at highly complex taskssuch as logical reasoning, coding, understanding and executing nuanced instructions, and more. In many AI benchmark tests,Gemini Ultrahas beaten OpenAI’sGPT-4 modeland is considered a very close competitor.

So far, Gemini Ultra only supports image analysis via its text-and-vision model, but Google says that expanded multi-modal capabilities and better coding features are coming to Gemini Advanced in a few months. Moreover, you will be able to upload files and documents on Gemini Advanced and ask Gemini Ultra to analyze them pretty soon.

Besides the rebranding and Gemini Ultra launch, Google has also taken the opportunity to unveil the Gemini app for Android smartphones. You can install theGemini app in the US. We can expect the Android app to roll out globally, except in the UK, Switzerland, and EEA countries in the coming days.

Currently, the Gemini app only supports the English language, but support for Japanese and Korean will be added soon. As for iPhone users, you will be able toaccess Gemini via its own dedicated tab in the Google app. So make sure to update the Google app to the latest version. Moreover, on Android, you can even set Gemini as your default assistant instead of Google Assistant. shortly, we will bring you a guide on how to do that, so stay tuned.

So what do you think about the Gemini rebranding? Are you going to move from ChatGPT Plus to Gemini Advanced? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.

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