How to get the advanced version of a chat bot

Gemini Advanced, the Most Powerful AI Chatbot Yet, Launched Behind a Paywall in the Last 10 Million Years of Google One

Gemini Advanced, Google’s most powerful chatbot yet, launched today behind a paywall. The price for the tier of the plan known as AI Premium is $21 a month. It combines access to the new chatbot with existing Google One offerings like 2 terabytes of extra storage, a VPN, and other perks.

AI Premium is similar in price to OpenAI’s $20 a month ChatGPT Plus, but includes Google One benefits that otherwise cost $9.99 a month. The new Gemini Advanced features will be free for all subscribers on Google One tiers until July 31, and it is unclear what will happen after that.

When OpenAI’s ChatGPT opened a new era in tech, the industry’s former AI champ, Google, responded by reorganizing its labs and launching a profusion of sometimes overlapping AI services. The Bard, workplace helpers Duet and Search and a version of search were included.

The company plans to roll out a Gemini integration with Gmail and Google Docs for AI Premium subscribers, but the exact release date for this feature is unknown. The initial results when WIRED tested Bard’s tricks were messy, but they showed promise. It will interesting to see if a powerful large language model will improve the user’s experience of searching for old emails.

Openai’s GPT-4 may be better at understanding the nuances of user prompt. It should do better in jobs like writing code, when compared to previous large language models. The only language that will receive support is English, but additional languages are expected to receive support in the future.

While aspects of Google’s Gemini Ultra model were shown off months ago in sometimes questionable demos, the juiced up version was not made available to the public during Gemini’s initial rollout. Now the more capable version has arrived.

Last week, it was announced that Google One would reach 100 million subscribers. Ben-Yair said that the next 100 million had to do with Artificial Intelligence Premium.

The vice president and general manager of the Google One business, tells WIRED that a subscription to access the most advanced version is necessary to help defray the costs of the computer power behind it. And it won’t be the last time Google launches an AI feature behind a paywall. “It’s just the first step in many more of these generative AI features coming to the market through Google One,” she says.

Google got to where it is mostly by offering free services stuffed with ads but has increasingly experimented with a different business model: Selling subscriptions for extra perks. Its first, debuted in 2006, provided additional photo storage for users who didn’t want to have to hit the delete button. You can now pay Google for extra space for emails and documents, too, or to keep recordings from Nest security cameras and remove ads from YouTube. Today the company added a major new pitch to its subscription slate—it’s asking people to pay extra to access a smarter AI chatbot and more capable productivity helpers.