Gemini

• gemini_v1_5_report.pdf (storage.googleapis.com)

Summary

• Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro and Advanced results are out!

• Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced at #2, closing in on GPT-4o

• Gemini 1.5 Flash at #9, outperforming Llama-3-70b and nearly reaching GPT-4-0125 (!)

• Pro is significantly stronger than its April version. Flash’s cost, capabilities, and unmatched context length make it a market game-changer!

• More excitingly, in Chinese, Gemini 1.5 Pro & Advanced are now the best #1 model in the world. Flash becomes even stronger!

• Gemini family remains top in “Hard Prompts” category, which features more challenging, problem-solving user queries.

• Introduction to Vertex AI  |  Google Cloud

  • costs Pricing  |  Vertex AI  |  Google Cloud

• (1) Deedy on X: “Can Gemini 1.5 actually read all the Harry Potter books at once? I tried it. All the books have ~1M words (1.6M tokens). Gemini fits about 5.7 books out of 7. I used it to generate a graph of the characters and it CRUSHED it. https://t.co/UCJiIh4SjY” / X (twitter.com)

  https://twitter.com/deedydas/status/1778621375592485076

• The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video (simonwillison.net)

• [The University of Manchester

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• Controls on LLMs have unintended consequences. Grimes on AI

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