Google's Bard AI officially becomes Gemini

If you asked a hundred people on the street what Google's generative artificial intelligence product is called, I'm betting that 98 of them wouldn't know, unless that street happens to be in San Jose. It's "Bard," for the record, unconsciously associating generative AI with British playwrights and D&D players who failed their sexual harassment prevention training. Now it's called "Google Gemini," after a brief period of rebranding, and it's debuting in Google's workplace products. Gemini is an umbrella term for Google's generative AI (a separate app on Android, embedded within the Google search app on iOS) and its integration into existing services like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet, where it was sometimes referred to as "Duet" before. Some advanced capabilities, like being a "personal tutor" or assistive writing in "more advanced coding scenarios," will be behind a Gemini Advanced paywall.