Get to know all about the major announcement that Google Made At I/O 2024: AI Overview, Gemini In Workspace And More

By Sushant Singh Published on May 15, 2024, 20:45 IST

Google I/0 2024 event brought some of the significant announcements and majorly it was based on Google’s advancement in the field of AI. The company also announced when these new AI-improved features are going to reach all the users and developers. Let’s get to know about it in detail.

AI Overview

AI Overview is a new feature in Google Search that will be reaching all in the US this week and will be rolled out to more countries’ users in the coming days. This is a Gemini-backed feature that lets a user get the answer to more complex, follow-up questions. Google has been testing for a while outside of the lab and has seen an increase in usage and satisfaction from users. Google Gemini not only makes searching for information easy and more intuitive but it also empowers Google products in many ways such as Google Photos.

Google Ask Photos with Gemini

Android users all across the globe have been using Google Photos to save their life memories in Google Photos. This not only keeps your photos safe but also reduces the load on your handset. Now with the Gemini searching for a photo in Google Photo has become easier than ever before. At the event, its usage was demonstrated in which it was asked about the photo of the license plate in Google Photos. Now Gemini backed search of Google Photo intelligently goes through a number of images in the photos and brings out the number plate of the vehicle that has appeared multiple times and results come out with the image of the license plate. Interesting isn’t it?

Apart from this, you can also dive deeper into the memories by asking questions like “When did Lucia learn to swim?”. It will go through a series of images in which Lucia can be seen swimming or anything related to that like a won certificate and then will bring out these photos for you at a place. You can also ask some follow-up questions in that. Google will roll out this exciting feature this summer with some more capabilities.

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Google announced the improved version of Gemini 1.5 Pro to all developers globally. Gemini 1.5 Pro with 1 million context is now directly available for consumers in Gemini Advanced. This can be used across 35 languages. For developers in private preview, Google has expanded the context window to 2 million tokens. Gemini will also redefine the way we use Google Workspace Gmail will let you summarize all emails, summarize it, and even write emails on the basis of it. The Notebook LM after the integration of the Gemini 1.5 Pro will allow users to summarize, and generate study guides, FAQs, quizzes, and also Audio Overviews. It will also provide advanced features to the Google Calendar and Google spreadsheet.

Gemini 1.5 Flash is a lighter-weight model

This model is designed for tasks where low latency and efficiency are very important. It is for high-frequency and narrow tasks and has the fastest response time. The Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini Flash are currently available globally in over 200 countries.

Project Astra

Google describes it as the universal AI agent that is based on the Gemini model that can respond to the complex and dynamic world and respond accordingly. This agent can process information faster by continuously encoding video frames and combining the audio and video into a timeline in caching for the recall. Google also presented a prototype of this agent showing the recall capability, identifying the objects, and solving the problem in real time.

Imagen 3/Music AI Sandbox/Veo

Google has also introduced its most capable image generation image model Imagen 3. This will be soon available to the developers and enterprise customers in Vertex. The Music AI Sandbox is a suite of professional music AI tools. Google has also announced the competitor of the Sora the Veo. It can create high-quality 1080p video from text, image, and video prompts. It builds upon the company’s pioneering generative video model work GQN, Phenaki, Walt, VideoPoet, Lumiere, and much more.