Google launches Gemini, built to be multimodal from the start

Google and Google DeepMind announced Gemini 1.0 on 6 December 2023 in three sizes, Ultra, Pro and Nano. Google described it as built to be multimodal from the start rather than adapted afterward, and said Ultra was the first model past human-expert performance on MMLU, at 90.0%.

Why it mattered Google had an answer to GPT-4 nine months after it shipped. Gemini Pro went into Bard the same day and Nano shipped on the Pixel 8 Pro.