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Google’s update to Gemini 1.5 Pro gives the model ears. The model can now listen to uploaded audio files and churn out information from things like earnings calls or audio from videos without the need to refer to a written transcript.
During its Google Next event, Google also announced it’ll make Gemini 1.5 Pro available to the public for the first time, through its platform to build AI applications, Vertex AI. Gemini 1.5 Pro was first announced in February.
This new version of Gemini Pro, which is supposed to be the middle-weight model of the Gemini family, already surpasses the biggest and most powerful model, Gemini Ultra, in performance. Gemini 1.5 Pro can understand complicated instructions and eliminates the need to fine-tune…
