Google Bard Gets 'Gemini Pro' Support; Company Says BIGGEST Upgrade Since Launch

Google Bard is now powered by Gemini Pro, Google’s latest multimodal language model (LLM), which replaces PaLM 2 as its most capable AI model yet.

The company claims that this is the “biggest upgrade” Bard has received since its release in March 2023, allowing for more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding, and more.

Gemini 1.0 is available in three different versions—Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano. Google says that the Bard chatbot is using a “fine-tuned” version of Gemini Pro, but this could be upgraded in the future.

Gemini Pro Beats OpenAI’s GPT 3.5

As per the company, Gemini Pro that powered Bard now, beats GPT 3.5 that powers ChatGPT in benchmarks. “In six out of eight benchmarks, Gemini Pro outperformed GPT-3.5, including in MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding), one of the key leading standards for measuring large AI models, and GSM8K, which measures grade school math reasoning,” Google notes.

Furthermore, the Gemini Pro-powered version of Google Bard is already available and is accessible in English in more than 170 countries and territories, with expansion to different modalities, new locations, and languages coming soon.

Bard ‘Advanced’ Coming Soon

The search giant has also confirmed that it’s going to launch ‘Bard Advanced’ powered by Gemini Ultra next year. In doing so, Bard is said to become even more capable than the current version.

It isn’t clear exactly when Gemini Ultra and Bard Ultra will launch, but Google is aiming for an early 2024 launch. The company reasons that this is due to “extensive safety checks, including red-teaming by trusted external parties, and further refining the model using fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)” before Gemini Ultra and the applications it powers are released publicly.