Google Renamed Bard Chatbot as Gemini. and rolls Out Paid Version

Google Renamed Bard Chatbot as Gemini. and rolls Out Paid Version 

A more powerful Ultra 1.0 AI model is available to U.S. clients who subscribe for $19.99 a month to Gemini Advanced, according to the Alphabet subsidiary.

Aside from the two terabytes of cloud storage that subscribers will receive—which normally costs $9.99 per month—they will also soon be able to use Gemini within Gmail and Google's Office suite.

The Google One AI Premium plan is a major response from the tech giant to Microsoft and its AI partner OpenAI. Additionally, it demonstrates the increasing rivalry for customers' attention, as there are now other paid AI subscription choices.

Microsoft has introduced a subscription service for artificial intelligence (AI) in Office applications like Word and Excel, while OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus was an early adopter of the market for purchasing access to AI models and other features a year ago. In the US, both plans cost $20 per month.

Gmail, cloud storage, and other integrations will bring Google's subscription in line with people's workflows, according to Product Lead Jack Krawczyk, who made this claim in an interview.

"When I pay $20 a month, access to a model alone is not really enough," he commented.

According to jack Krawczyk, the ideal customers are those looking for the most advanced generative AI system available, one that can generate content at the touch of a button and answer questions for which there is no clear internet solution.

Google plans to leverage its massive customer base of Android phone users to its advantage as it seeks to launch another product with billions of users. Gemini, the business said, can be set as the default digital assistant on Android phones through an app, the power button, or just saying "Hey Google."

"When you do that, it presents one of the lowest friction ways in the world to access AI," said Krawczyk. He went on to say that the Google iPhone app will also be getting Gemini.

As of 2024, Gemini Advanced is accessible in English in 150 countries, according to Krawczyk.

The deployment of Gemini's smartphones will begin in the United States and next week expand to other regions, including Asia-Pacific and Latin America, with additional language support in Japanese and Korean, he announced. Customers can try out the service risk-free for two months.

Regarding the rebranding, Krawczyk stated that Google's AI strategy had progressed, ushering in "the Gemini era" for "the artist formerly known as Bard."

Reported by Jeffrey Dustin in San Francisco, Source by Reuters, Edited By Harsha Dilan