Google announced at a press briefing on Wednesday that its latest AI model Gemini 1.5 Flash is 20% faster than OpenAI's latest bot ChatGPT-4o.

Google announced Thursday that Gemini 1.5 Flash is now available to the public. The AI ​​chatbot was first announced at Google I/O in May and has been available in public preview — meaning customers have been able to test the product and provide feedback — for the past month. Gemini 1.5 Flash can analyze an hour of video, 11 hours of audio, or more than 700,000 words in one query, instead of requiring users to split their query into chunks. Speaking to journalists, Google showed how the robot analyzed a 14 -minute video in one minute.

Google said the latest AI robot is 40 % faster than ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo and has higher options. In other words, users can include more context in their questions about Gemini 1.5 Flash, whether it's audio, video, code, or text, and of course get more accurate answers in return.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said, "This is the fastest and most cost-effective model on the market." Gemini 1.5 Flash is available to developers in a limited capacity for free and additionally at variable prices depending on how much data users want to input.

The Gemini 1.5 Pro is about 10 times more expensive, but Google describes it as "the best model overall." It can take in even more context: 22 hours of audio and 1.5 million words. "You can reference the entire history of a company, which could be 10 years of accounting" in one query, Kurian said.

Google announced that the latest updates to Gemini 1.5 Flash, its flagship Gemini 1.5 Pro and Imagen 3 image generator make its AI software suite the "most enterprise-friendly generative AI platform" on the market. It named several of the company's customers using its products, including UberEats, Moody's and Shutterstock.

Those customers are turning to Google in part because of a special new update to its AI: accelerated "grounding" capabilities, it announced Thursday. Twin models now display responses based on (ie related to) sources with links. These responses are also assigned a baseline score (such as reliability). Google said it will also introduce new industry-specific core tools in the third quarter that will allow financial analysts to run artificial intelligence queries based on Moody's data, for example, or legal experts to ask questions based on Thomson Reuters sources.