You know, one of the reasons we got interested in AI from the very beginning is that we always viewed our mission as a timeless mission.
It's to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
But as information has grown in scale and complexity, you know, the problem has gotten harder.
So we always knew we needed to have a deeper breakthrough to make progress.
I've worked on AI my whole life because I've always felt it would be the most beneficial and consequential technology for humanity.
Human beings in our society, we have five senses, and the world we built, and the media we consume is in those different modalities.
So, I'm super proud and excited to announce the launch of the Gemini era, a first step towards a truly universal AI model.
The Gemini approach to multimodality is all the kinds of things you want an artificial intelligence system to be able to do, and these are capabilities that haven't really existed in computers before.
Traditionally, multimodal models are created by stitching together text-only, vision-only, and audio-only models in a suboptimal way at a secondary stage.
Gemini is multimodal from the ground up, so it can seamlessly have a conversation across modalities and give you the best possible response.
