Google introduces the "Gemini era" with AI developments.

-->Google has announced a number of changes to its AI products, including the launch of Gemini 1.5 Flash, improvements to Gemini 1.5 Pro, and progress on Project Astra, its vision for the future of AI helpers.

-->Gemini 1.5 Flash is a new model in Google's family, aiming to be faster and more efficient for large-scale serving.

-->Despite being less heavy than the 1.5 Pro, it still has the revolutionary long context window of one million tokens and the capacity for multimodal reasoning across large volumes of data.

-->"1.5 Flash excels at summarisation, chat applications, image and video captioning, data extraction from long documents and tables, and more," explained Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind.

-->This is because it was trained by 1.5 Pro via a method known as 'distillation,' which transfers the most important knowledge and skills from a larger model to a smaller, more efficient model.

-->Meanwhile, Google has greatly expanded the capabilities of its Gemini 1.5 Pro model, increasing the context window to a record-breaking two million tokens. Its code creation, logical reasoning, multi-turn communication, and audio/image interpretation skills have all been improved.

-->Additionally, the business has included Gemini 1.5 Pro into Google products, such as the Workspace and Gemini Advanced apps. Furthermore, Gemini Nano can now process multimodal inputs, including visuals in addition to text.

-->Google has launched Gemma 2, the next generation of open models, which is built for breakthrough performance and economy. PaliGemma, the business's first vision-language model that draws inspiration from PaLI-3, is another addition to the Gemma family.

-->Finally, Google provided an update on Project Astra (advanced seeing and talking responsive agent), its vision for the future of AI assistants. "Building an all-purpose agent that is helpful in daily living has always been our goal", stated Google CEO Sundar Pichai.