Gemini

Gemini is Google's family of multimodal AI models, designed to seamlessly understand and generate across text, images, audio, video, and code. It powers Google's AI products and is available to developers through the Gemini API and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

The model family includes: Gemini Ultra (most capable), Gemini Pro (balanced), and Gemini Nano (on-device). Key capabilities include: native multimodality (not just vision bolted on), large context windows (up to 1M tokens in some versions), strong reasoning and coding abilities, and integration with Google Search for grounding.

For AI engineers, Gemini offers competitive capabilities to GPT-4 and Claude, with distinctive strengths in multimodal understanding and Google ecosystem integration. The 1M token context window enables unique use cases. Considerations include: API availability, pricing models, and evaluating model fit for specific applications compared to alternatives.