Recently, Google launched a new AI voice assistant, Gemini Live, which allows users to engage in more natural conversations and supports 10 languages. Initially, Gemini Live was only available to paying users, but now all iOS and Android users can download and use it for free. Users can experience smoother human-machine interaction through the application, breaking the limitations of traditional voice assistants. One of the features of Gemini Live is its ability to conduct multi-turn conversations.

Google AI Studio and Gemini API have recently launched the 'Real-Time Connection with Google Search' feature, aimed at helping developers improve the accuracy of AI model responses by integrating real-time data from Google Search. With this update, the Gemini 1.5 model can retrieve the latest information from Google Search, enhancing the accuracy and transparency of responses. Developers can directly access this feature in the 'Tools' section of Google AI Studio or in the Gemini API.

In Google's latest quarterly earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai conveyed a clear message: Gemini is rapidly expanding its influence. Data shows that the API call volume for Gemini has experienced a staggering 14-fold increase over the past six months, confirming the strong market demand for its services. In terms of product integration, Google has already begun incorporating Gemini's capabilities into its core application matrix. Currently, major applications such as Google Maps and Google Search are being enhanced.

Google Gemini recently announced on its official Twitter account that the highly anticipated Imagen 3 image generation feature is now available to all Gemini users worldwide. This major update marks an important step for Google in the field of AI image generation, providing users with more powerful and flexible creation tools. Imagen 3, as the latest version in the Imagen series, brings several significant improvements compared to its predecessor, Imagen 2. According to Google's official introduction, these improvements mainly focus on...

Recently, a study from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, Vanderbilt University, and Harvard Kennedy School revealed that generative artificial intelligence (AI) is infiltrating our daily work lives at an astonishing pace. The study, titled "The Rapid Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence," indicates that the adoption rate of generative AI has already surpassed that of the early use of personal computers (PCs) and the internet. According to the research, 39.4% of Americans aged 18 to 64 have begun using generative AI, with 28% of them using it at work.

Google today announced the launch of the newly upgraded Gemini model series, which includes Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002. This update not only significantly enhances performance but also brings surprising price discounts, undoubtedly creating a buzz in the AI development community. Firstly, the most eye-catching aspect is the substantial price reduction. The usage cost of the new models has been halved, with a drop of over 50%. At the same time, performance has seen remarkable improvements.

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 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 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 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.

Google announced a price cut for its fast AI model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, reducing input token costs to $0.075 per million tokens and output token costs to $0.30 per million tokens, representing a decrease of up to 78%. This move is highly beneficial for developers, particularly for scenarios such as summarization, classification, and multimodal understanding. The new API and AI studio from Google have enhanced PDF analysis capabilities, supporting the understanding of PDFs that include graphical and image content, and expanded language support to cover over 100 languages.

Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi, announced on social media that the international version of Xiaomi's flagship device will integrate Google's AI large model Google Gemini, aiming to provide a smarter and more intuitive user experience. Google Gemini is an advanced multimodal AI model developed by Google that can recognize, understand, and process various types of information.

Google's star AI model Gemini has launched a significant pricing strategy that dramatically reduces the cost of API usage, cutting costs by nearly 50% compared to its major competitor GPT-4o mini. The input costs for the Gemini 1.5 Flash model have dropped by about 85%, and output costs by about 80%, making it one of the lowest-cost AI services on the market. This price reduction not only lowers the entry barrier but also supports over 100 languages, introduces context caching, and batch processing API optimization services.