Google is gearing up to release its eagerly awaited conversational AI system, Gemini, which could potentially set the stage for a showdown with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Gemini is a multimodal language model capable of processing text, images, and audio inputs. Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, highlighted Gemini's multimodal design during the Google I/O keynote in May, showcasing its impressive capabilities in the early stages.

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Despite ChatGPT's significant success in various industries since its November 2021 launch, Pichai appears undaunted by the upcoming AI competition. He believes that Google's decision to refine their models before a consumer launch was essential for success, citing the integration of Google's new multimodal model, PaLM 2, which improved Bard's performance compared to ChatGPT in specific areas.

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