Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0
Google introduced Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes, a natively multimodal model family; Gemini Ultra was reported as the first model to exceed human-expert performance on MMLU (90.0%).
Key facts
- Announced 6 December 2023
- Three sizes: Ultra, Pro, Nano (on-device, Pixel 8 Pro)
- Gemini Ultra: 90.0% on MMLU (with CoT@32), per Google
- Bard switched to Gemini Pro; Bard was renamed Gemini in February 2024
- Product of the April 2023 merger of Google Brain and DeepMind
What happened
Google's first model from the merged Google DeepMind was trained to be multimodal from the start across text, images, audio and video.
Why it matters
Google's main answer to GPT-4, beginning a Gemini line that reached the frontier with Gemini 2.5 and 3.
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: created
Related events
Sources (2)
- officialIntroducing Gemini (Google)
- paperGemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models (arXiv)
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