Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, February 15th, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google's moving fast.

They've already launched Gemini 1.5.

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They only rolled out Gemini 1, what was it, last week, and Gemini itself is barely two months old, but Google

today launched Gemini 1.5 to developers and enterprise users offering support for

one million tokens and says Gemini 1.5 Pro is on par with its Gemini Ultra model, quoting the Virge.

There are a lot of improvements in Gemini 1.5.

Gemini 1.5 Pro, the general purpose model in Google System, is apparently on par with the high-end Gemini Ultra that the company

only recently launched and it bested Gemini 1.0 pro on 87% of benchmark tests.

It was made using an increasingly common technique known as mixture of experts or

MOE which means it only runs part of the overall model when you send in a query rather than

processing the whole thing the whole time.

That approach should make the model both faster for you to use and more efficient for Google

to run.

But there's one new thing in Gemini 1.5 that has the whole company starting with CEO Sundar Pachai, especially excited.

Gemini 1.5 has an enormous context window, which means it can handle much larger queries and

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