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From The Decoder: >In April 2023, Alphabet announced the merger of its two AI units, Google Brain and Deepmind. The resulting Google Deepmind was to focus on de
by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
From The Decoder:
>In April 2023, Alphabet announced the merger of its two AI units, Google Brain and Deepmind. The resulting Google Deepmind was to focus on developing large multimodal AI models. It was a big move that showed how much pressure Google was under due to the massive success of ChatGPT. Jeff Dean, head of Google Brain until the merger with Deepmind, became the new merger's chief scientist, with a direct line to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Dean now explains that the name Gemini, Latin for "twin," is directly related to the merger.
From Jeff Dean's Twitter:
>Gemini is Latin for "twins".
>The Gemini effort came about because we had different teams working on language modeling, and we knew we wanted to start to work together. The twins are the folks in the legacy Brain team (many from the PaLM/PaLM-2 effort) and the legacy DeepMind team (many from the Chinchilla effort) that started to work together on the ambitious multimodal model project we called Gemini, eventually joined by many people from all across Google. Gemini was also was the Nasa project that was the bridge to the moon between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
The Decoder article - https://the-decoder.com/how-googles-gemini-ai-model-got-its-name/ https://the-decoder.com/how-googles-gemini-ai-model-got-its-...
Jeff Dean's Twitter Post - https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1733580264859926941 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1733580264859926941
- ferfumarma 3y agoBicameral would have been better, IMO
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoIt's more on the nose but probably less right from a marketing perspective.
- felarof 3y ago[flagged]
- stefan_ 3y agoIt is funny how there is all this elaborate discussion here when it was just corporate officers jerking each other off all along. Occam’s razor.