ChatGPT & Gemini - Holiday News

Google has made Gemini Pro available in API. Gemini Pro is the 2nd-best model from its new family of AI models Gemini. Gemini Pro is currently free for developers and enterprises to start building with.

What is going on here?

Gemini Pro is now accessible via API for app development.

What does this mean?

Here’s what you have access to right now:

• 32K context window for text and vision endpoint for multimodal use.

• Free of cost until general availability next year. Limited at 60 queries per minute.

• Features: function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval and custom knowledge grounding, and chat functionality.

• SDKs for Python, Kotlin, Node.js, Swift, and Javascript.

• Can be used via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

The pricing for Gemini Pro (after general availability) is almost similar to the comparable model GPT-3.5-turbo.

For enterprise users, Google Cloud has also added things like Duet AI for code, AI Hypercomputer and other hardware upgrades.

Why should I care?

Google claims it outperforms similarly sized models, offers multilingual support across 180+ countries. But as everyone predicted, giving devs access a week after the launch is hurting Google.

But if you want to try the models out, testing it now is the best option. The free options are generous and there’s generally alpha in looking where others aren’t.

Axel Springer, a big media company, is teaming up with OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. They want to use AI to improve journalism.

What is going on here?

The companies will integrate recent news content into ChatGPT to provide users with authoritative, up-to-date information.

What does this mean?

ChatGPT will now give users summaries and links to some of Axel Springer's articles from places like POLITICO and BUSINESS INSIDER (plus European publications BILD and WELT). So people get access to good information that's normally behind a paywall.

What's in it for Axel Springer? They get to put their content into ChatGPT to keep readers up-to-date. And they can build other AI stuff using OpenAI's technology. OpenAI also gets to use Axel Springer's articles to train its AI models.

Why should I care?

Both companies are serious about using AI to help journalism thrive into the future. The goal is to make sure publishers can keep funding solid reporting, even with all the new technology shaking things up.

In the end, it's good for users and good for journalism. You get AI systems serving up better facts and data. News organizations can keep digging up what matters. It's using tech responsibly to inform people and support public knowledge.

One concern is that there is a hypocrisy in licensing data from big media companies while claiming that training on huge amounts of other copyrighted work, often from smaller companies and individuals, is fair use.

*Credit to Ben’s Bites consolidating such valuable information daily.