At least it appears to be available in Canada now…
Comment on Bard becomes Gemini: Google launches their most powerful LLM, Ultra 1.0
simple@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Unfortunately the new model is behind a paywall
tunetardis@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s not surprising considering GPT 4 is still paid as well. At least OpenAI gives pay-as-you-go API access, which is significantly cheaper for my use cases than their $20/mo standard price.
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is surprising from a competitive perspective though in that Google is behind already, so putting it behind a pay wall doesn’t help with that.
When you’re the size of Google surely you make it as free as possible and lose some money to gain marketshare back.
Why the fuck would I pay for Gemini which I’ve basically never heard of vs. GPT 4 which for better or worse is considered the coming of the new AI revolution.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
it isn’t - they claim their Ultra model is better than GPT-4 and they’re offering 2 months to try it out for free. It makes all competitive sense.
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not sure you’re correct on the last point. My understanding is copilot gets chatgpt 4 turbo which is the paid version, as well as other parts like dall-e 3 so for free it’s definitely the best option…
And fair enough on the google stuff being free for at least 2 months. That makes more economic sense.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That would be reasonable, as severs cost, if they allowed you to self-host the model.