Google Gemini AI Big Upgrade! Tech major brings these updates to free version

The tech giant Google has announced that its Gemini AI chatbot is receiving a huge upgrade with the support for Gemini 1.5 Flash, which is a delicate yet huge language model developed to contest with GPT-4o mini developed by OpenAI. Google will make Gemini 1.5 Flash available to all its users, irrespective of their subscription level. The company claims that with this major update, users will get to experience “across-the-board” improvements in terms of the quality of Gemini AI’s response and the pace at which it conveys those responses. 

Users will also witness improvements in their reasoning and image comprehension abilities. The tech firm displayed Gemini 1.5 Flash during its Google I/O 2024 event in May for the first time and made it accessible to a few subscription users right after the launch. However, now the company is introducing it to the free version of the Gemini mobile application, and the freely available web interface at gemini.google.com as well. 

The improved abilities of Gemini 1.5 Flash originate from a huge boost in its token size. Currently, it supports 32,000 tokens, which is four times larger than the old variant of the artificial intelligence model launched in May. The elevated count of tokens in Gemini 1.5 Flash shows that it can manage longer, more intricate prompts and transmit improved responses. It means that users can indulge in lengthy back-and-forth interactions and ask Gemini trickier and more intricate questions free of cost. 

The company officials have said that soon users will have an option to upload files to the free variant of its Gemini AI chatbot that was available only in the paid version earlier. Uploading files to the Gemini AI chatbot supports contextual prompts. Another upcoming feature will help Gemini assess data files and develop visualizations and charts inspired by the data files. 

The officials say that Google is working towards reducing AI hallucinations, AI hallucinations is a word used to define senseless or erroneous responses. Gemini will offer citations to all of its answers to reduce this issue, connecting to all used source materials. Therefore, if Gemini delivers a questionable response, users will have the option to explore source material and find the validity of its assertions by themselves. Users utilizing Gmail extensions will also have access to these citations, which will enable users to ask Gemini questions related to their email inboxes. Google has also announced that it will allow teenagers aged 13 years and above to use Gemini as a search tool if they have a Gmail email ID.