Recently, Google was sued by a company named Gemini Data for its newly launched AI service 'Gemini'. Gemini Data is a company that offers an enterprise-level AI platform and believes that Google used their registered trademark without legal authorization. The sequence of events is as follows: in February 2023, Google changed the name of its generative AI service from 'Bard' to 'Gemini', and prior to this, in December 2023,

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Google has launched Illuminate, an innovative tool that transforms academic papers into engaging audio podcasts using the language model Gemini. Users can easily absorb knowledge through this platform, especially suitable for learning during fragmented time. Illuminate supports classic computer science papers and offers features like fast forward, rewind, and playback speed adjustment for convenient sharing. Currently, its functions mainly target English content, and it does not provide downloads or subtitles, but there are hopes for further optimization of user experience in the future.

Google is testing a new feature called 'Ask Photos', allowing users to explore their photo library in an innovative way. By asking questions such as 'Where did we camp last time at Yosemite?' or 'What did we eat at the hotel in Stanley?', users can receive answers and retrieve related images. Powered by Google's Gemini AI model, it analyzes photo content to provide answers and images, supports natural language searching, and sorting by date or relevance, with support for more languages rolling out in the coming weeks. This feature has been launched on Android and iOS platforms.

Google Photos has recently rolled out the AI-powered search tool 'Ask Photos' to select users in the U.S. through early access, revolutionizing interactions with digital albums. This feature allows users to query and retrieve photos using natural language, going beyond traditional keyword searches. The technology behind it is the Gemini AI model, which can understand photo content and metadata, providing deeper search results. Users can ask complex questions, and the AI will filter the best results based on various factors such as photo quality and location information.

Google has made a major update to the Chrome browser by integrating an AI chatbot named Gemini into the address bar. Users can simply type '@gemini' followed by their query in the address bar to receive a response from Gemini. This integration makes AI a default part of the browsing experience for Chrome's vast user base, eliminating the need for extra navigation. Gemini uses a lightweight version of Google's advanced language model family, Gemini 1.5 Flash, offering significantly improved AI capabilities over its predecessor.

The newly launched 1.5 flash model update of Gemini has significantly improved response speed by 50%, especially noticeable in the Pro Plan, benefiting all user tiers. This optimization is evident on both web and mobile platforms, enhancing user interaction experience, particularly when handling complex tasks. The competitiveness of Gemini in the AI assistant domain has thus increased, with a new round of updates scheduled for release on September 4, introducing more enhanced features and continuously optimizing services. This update reflects the rapid iteration of AI technology and fierce competition, allowing users to benefit and enjoy an improved experience.

Google announced on Thursday that it has launched the AI assistant feature—Gmail Q&A— for paid users of Gmail on Android devices, with plans to roll it out to iOS devices in the future. This feature allows users to interact directly with the AI assistant Gemini within the Gmail app to read and summarize inbox content or search for specific information, such as key points from particular emails or costs of past company marketing campaigns. The functionality enhances information retrieval efficiency by adding a Gemini button next to the traditional search bar. Currently, this feature is limited to email.

Google officially announced that Gemini subscribers can create custom chatbots called 'Gem'. These bots can serve as fitness partners, cooking assistants, writing editors, and more, tailored to individual needs. Users simply need to describe the commands to give the bots a unique personality and expertise. This feature was first showcased at Google's I/O conference in May, such as creating a knowledgeable, friendly, and casual Gem to help plan a garden. Ready-made Gems include learning coaches, creative brainstorming, career guidance, programming partners, and editors. This feature is available for Geminis.

Google has released three experimental AI models from the Gemini 1.5 series, including the smaller variant Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, which, despite its size, delivers outstanding performance and is suitable for lightweight AI applications. The more powerful Gemini 1.5 Pro model shows significant improvements in coding capabilities and the handling of complex prompts, making it ideal for users who require advanced AI assistance. The Gemini 1.5 Flash model has also been optimized for performance, demonstrating impressive results. These new models are now available for user testing on the AI Studio platform, with Google providing a smooth transition.

Google has announced the reactivation of the character image generation feature for its AI chatbot Gemini, aimed at producing diverse content including photo-realistic landscapes and textured paintings. This feature is powered by Google's AI text-to-image generator Imagen3 and currently supports only English. It will be available to Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise users in the coming days. The newly upgraded Imagen3 model offers improved performance and includes built-in safety measures optimized to avoid historical inaccuracies.

Google recently launched its latest AI model series, Gemini 1.5, which includes Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, Gemini 1.5 Flash, and Gemini 1.5 Pro. These models are designed to handle long texts and large amounts of multimodal inputs such as documents, videos, and audio. Gemini 1.5 Flash is a lightweight version with 8 billion parameters, significantly enhancing performance and becoming the preferred choice for developers worldwide. Gemini 1.5 Pro excels in mathematics, coding, and handling complex prompts.

The new feature 'Take Notes for Me' has launched on Google Meet, available to specific Google Workspace customers. This feature uses AI to automatically summarize meeting content into a Google Document, making it easy to review and share, especially for those who missed the meeting. The document includes links to recordings and transcriptions, supporting Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or the AI Meetings & Messaging add-on.

Google's acquisition of the AI startup Character.AI and the return of its former CEO Noam Shazeer as co-technical lead for the Gemini project demonstrate its ambitions in the field of artificial intelligence. Shazeer will collaborate with experts like Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals to ensure that the Gemini project maintains an edge in competition with ChatGPT. This acquisition not only strengthens Google's AI research team but could also enhance AI conversational capabilities.

Google has introduced a 'refinement' feature to Gmail, aimed at enhancing email quality and ensuring more appropriate expression. This feature is implemented through the Gemini writing tool, allowing users to choose options like 'Formalize', 'Expand', or 'Refine' under the 'Help Me Write' section to optimize email content. The AI writing tool is more intuitive and user-friendly on Android and iOS devices. Users with a Google One AI Premium account or Gmail Workspace can enjoy this feature for quick optimization of new drafts.

Google has launched the Gemini API's Gemini1.5Flash free plan, offering 1.5 billion free tokens every day, including 15 requests per minute, 1 million tokens per minute, and 1 million tokens per hour of context caching services, along with fully free tuning capabilities. This initiative aims to lower the barriers for developers to utilize AI technology, supporting the development of innovative applications. For small and medium-sized development teams, this will significantly reduce costs and provide convenience in R&D. This move is expected to attract more developers, driving growth.

Google has launched the Pixel Screenshots app for the Pixel 9 series, aimed at intelligently managing screenshot information. The app uses the Gemini Nano model to analyze image content directly on the device, making screenshots searchable; users can quickly find specific screenshots by keywords, improving information retrieval efficiency. The app supports the creation of custom collections and automatically filters screenshots related to keywords, featuring information extraction capabilities, such as extracting T-shirt prices from images. Currently, it is only available for Pixel 9 series devices.

Google introduced a voice chat mode called Gemini Live at the Pixel 9 launch event, providing Gemini premium users with a flexible conversational experience. This feature is similar to ChatGPT, allowing users to choose from multiple voices during conversations, enabling seamless interruptions and interjections without touching the screen. The design goal is to enable 'free-flowing' dialogue, supporting multitasking and functioning in the background even when the phone is locked. Gemini Live is already available on Android devices.