AI race gets fiercer: Is Gemini a giant stride or leap of faith?

Google made headlines on December 6 as it launched Gemini, touted as its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model, trained to behave in human-like ways.

- AYUSHMAN BARUAH

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai first teased Gemini at the I/O developer conference in May and called it a huge leap forward in an AI model that will ultimately touch and impact all of Google's products.

Here's what you need to know:

Is Gemini a single model, or does it have versions?

Gemini comes in three versions: Pro, Ultra, and Nano.

Gemini Nano, the lighter version, is meant to run natively and offline on Android devices.

Gemini Pro, the heavier version, will soon power several Google AI services and is the backbone of Google's chat-based AI tool, Bard.

Gemini Ultra is the most powerful large language model (LLM) Google has yet created and seems to be mostly designed for data centres and enterprise applications.

Which languages does it support?