Google DeepMind has done it again. With the release of their newest AI system, Gemini 1.5 Pro, they have shattered previous benchmarks and set a new high bar for long context artificial intelligence capabilities. As an AI expert and blogger, I’m thrilled to break down this monumental achievement and why it marks a giant leap forward for AI.
Gemini 1.5 Pro is a language model that can recall and reason over massive amounts of text, audio, and video data. We’re talking over 10 million tokens worth! That’s the equivalent of around 2% of the entire English language Wikipedia, or up to 22 hours of audio or 3 hours of low frame rate video. Previous models like GPT-4 struggled to handle context beyond 128,000 tokens without a severe drop in accuracy.
But Gemini 1.5 Pro retains near-perfect accuracy even at these extreme lengths. Through clever architecture improvements and training advances, the researchers at DeepMind have enabled their AI to achieve unbelievable feats of memory and multimodal understanding.
So what can this revolutionary AI actually do?
In tests, Gemini 1.5 Pro breezed through long context tasks that made other AIs stumble. It flawlessly retrieved obscure facts and passages across millions of tokens of text, code, and video. The model can pinpoint exact moments in a 44 minute slowed video and extract details as if it had perfect recall.
The more context Gemini 1.5 Pro is given, the smarter it gets. Its performance improves with longer documents and codebases. The researchers believe it is actually “remembering” concepts from millions of tokens ago!
How did DeepMind pull off this amazing achievement?
While architecture details are scarce, experts speculate Gemini 1.5 Pro incorporates recent advances in sparse mixture-of-experts models. This allows parts of the network to specialize, reducing compute.
Gemini 1.5 Pro outperforms GPT-4 and others on long context despite their use of databases. This AI has state-of-the-art capabilities in language, vision, audio, reasoning, and knowledge retrieval.
When will we get access to this powerful AI system?
For now, Gemini 1.5 Pro is only available to select researchers and enterprises. But DeepMind plans a limited public release soon, initially supporting 128,000 tokens. It will expand up to 1 million tokens via pricing tiers.
The full 10 million+ token version will likely stay restricted, as DeepMind acknowledges misuse concerns. However, Gemini 1.5 Pro clearly illustrates the exponential trajectory of AI.
Applications of such a capable long context model are endless – it could transform search, accelerate science, improve education, and more. While advancing AI safety, systems like Gemini 1.5 Pro foreshadow a bright future powered by artificial intelligence. DeepMind continues leading that charge.
