Welcome to the Tech Meme ride home for Thursday, February 8th, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google has released Gemini Ultra 1.0, renamed Bard as Gemini, and looks to be replacing Google

Assistant with Gemini eventually. Disney has invested in a big stake in Epic Games

to get at Fort Knight IP, leaked images of the Pixel Fold 2, and what

if Open AI is facing the same strategic dilemma that Mark Zuckerberg was never able to overcome?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Google has released Gemini Ultra 1.0, the largest and most capable version of its

LLCs and has renamed Bard 2 Gemini, which now has a dedicated

Android app, quoting the verge.

Gemini's mobile apps will likely be the place most people encounter the new tool

if you download the new app on Android it can set Gemini as your default assistant

meaning it replaces Google assistant as the thing that responds when you say,

hey Google or long press your home button.

So far, it doesn't seem Google is getting rid of Assistant entirely,

but the company has been deprioritizing Assistant for a while now,

and it clearly believes Gemini is the future.

I think it's a super important first step towards building a true AI assistant says

Cissi Saisau who runs Bard now Gemini at Google. One that is conversational, it's multimodal, and it's more helpful than ever before."

There's no dedicated Gemini app for iOS, and you can't set a non-Siri assistant as the default anyway, but you'll be able to access all

the AI features in the Google app.

And just to give you a sense of how important Gemini is to Google, there's going to be

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