Washington, United States – Google has given a small number of companies access to an early version of its Gemini generative artificial intelligence model, reports said.
The company is close to incorporating it into its consumer services and selling it to enterprises through Google Cloud. Gemini is intended to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, which is available through Microsoft Azure.
It consists of multiple large-language models able to write text, images, and code.
The company plans to make Gemini available through its Google Cloud Vertex AI service, and will offer access to models of different sizes so that developers can use smaller ones for simpler tasks. It has given developers access to a relatively large version of Gemini but not the largest version it is working on.
In May, Google said that it would offer Palm 2 LLMs to Google Cloud customers through Vertex.
The company has also invested in generative AI companies Anthropic and Runway, gaining them as cloud customers.