Company
Date Published
July 8, 2024
Author
Miguel Rebelo
Word count
3118
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Google Gemini 1.5 Pro model can process a large amount of data in one go, supporting up to a million tokens in each prompt—a little over 700,000 words—and is multimodal, meaning it can work with up to one hour of video, 9.5 hours of audio, and over 30,000 lines of code. The Gemini API provides access to Google's AI model suite, including the natural language processing (NLP) model Gemini 1.0 Pro and the multimodal model Gemini 1.5 Pro, which has a massive context window. There are two ways to connect to the Gemini API: using the free plan via Google AI Studio or setting up access via the Google Vertex AI Model Garden. The Gemini models can generate text, images, see images and video, analyze and process audio, turn text into speech, and turn speech into text. The Gemini API pricing has two tiers: a free one that isn't private and a paid one that is managed in Google Vertex AI. To use the Gemini API, you need to create a Google AI Studio account, get a Gemini API key, set up the API call, pass your prompts, change the settings, change the AI model, integrate Gemini into your apps, or use Zapier to connect to Gemini.