Meet Gemini Ultra: Google’s game-changer for the future of AI
On 8th February 2024, Google announced Gemini Advanced available across 150 countries and territories in English. Gemini Ultra 1.0 is available through Gemini Advanced. Ultra is Google’s most capable model that delivers contemporary performance across a comprehensive range of overly complex tasks, including reasoning and multimodal tasks. Google stated that more languages will be supported in the future.
Gemini Ultra was trained using multiple sets of TPUv4 accelerators, across several data centres. For a recap on Google Gemini, check out our earlier blog post for a refresher.
Now, let us plunge into some of its notable features:
· Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU): MMLU combines knowledge from 57 subjects, to test knowledge and problem-solving capabilities. The largest model, Ultra, outruns human experts in MMLU with an accuracy of 90.04% (Chain-of-Thought@32) while GPT-4 scored 87.29% (Chain-of-Thought@32 via API).
· Advanced Reasoning and Logic: Gemini Ultra outruns the capabilities of the original Gemini model. It surpasses it in coding, logical reasoning, and following subtle instructions.
· Personalised Learning: Gemini Ultra can help you as a personal tutor tailored to your learning style. It can adapt to your requirements, making learning more effective and systematic.
· Creative Collaboration: Gemini Ultra goes beyond the conventional AI, helping you plan business strategies by being a creative collaborator for content strategy, and building content. It can broaden horizons for professionals seeking innovative solutions.
At this time, the only way to get access to Ultra is via Gemini Advanced. Users will have to sign up to a new Google One AI Premium tier that costs $18.99 per month. It is the Google One 2TB tier with the addition of Gemini Advanced. Shortly, users will also get gain access to Gemini in Google Workspace that is tending be a Microsoft Copilot comparable experience. The price seems a tad bit lower than the offerings by Microsoft and OpenAI. Google has a lead here in that it can tier up these extra features on top of their native cloud without suffering overly extra cost but adding extra revenue in the process.
Google is offering a two-month free trial to this tier to let users experience Gemini Advanced. It does not matter if you are a Google One subscriber, if you upgrade to the new AI Premium plan you will get the free trial. This might attract of lot of users.
In addition, Google has valued transparency as AI becomes gradually more connected into our daily lives. Gemini Advanced had undergone multiple rounds of red-teaming, including safety and persona evaluations. It also included three types of external testing: priority (120) user program, power (50) users testing and a group user testing.
In summary, the Gemini Ultra stand for a substantial enhancement over the standard Gemini model, for professionals who expect more advanced functions. Its multimodal proficiency, exceptional performance, and emphasis on context understanding makes it a powerful AI collaborator. Gemini Ultra performed remarkably well in complex reasoning and writing tasks, while GPT-4 performed remarkably well in common sense reasoning. So there’s always capacity for improvement. Google’s wider future goal is to create a scalable, modular system with wide-ranging generalisation capabilities across diverse modalities using AI models.
Meanwhile, wait for our next blog where we assess the actual performance of Google Gemini Ultra.
About the Author:
Rosemary J Thomas, PhD, is a Senior Technical Researcher at the Version 1 AI Labs.
