Since Google introduced Gemini last December, we can say that the history of the tech company’s true commitment to artificial intelligence has begun to be written. Today, today, is one year since the Bard was introduced (yes, that’s right, just one day after Bing’s first birthday), and while it was the best Google could put on the table at the time, once we started examining its limitations, it was clear that only a quick reaction to the step Microsoft, who threatened to take quite the lead.

As I say, Bard was the first contact, but from the Google I/O 2023 celebration It was clear that the real competition would come with Gemini, a much more advanced model, to the point where it outperformed even the GPT-4 in some performance tests. Therefore, Google had to put maximum emphasis on the huge difference that the adoption of the new model brings. And what better way to do that than to rename him Bard? And what better new name than the very name of the model that gives it life?

So it leaked a week ago today that Google was going to make this change, in a move that (as I said at the time) reminds me a lot of what Microsoft has done by embracing much of its AI-based services. in Copilot. Bard and Bing were the first step to have a big impact on public opinion, but after that, The time has come to start building a shared identityand much more powerful, with the models, services and features of its generative AI catalog.

So to celebrate his first birthday, Google made the change from Bard to Gemini official and also introduced Gemini Ultra, the paid version of the service, which, as the name implies, especially if you remember the version of the model introduced in December, is based on the most advanced of them. In addition, there is also news regarding its arrival on mobile devices. Below is an overview of all the news in this regard.

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