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Want to learn the basics about Google Slides? This beginner's guide walks you through everything from importing your PowerPoint files to sharing presentations online.

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If you’re just getting started with Google Slides, its extensive features and add-ons can be a little overwhelming. Here are some tips to help you get going with this powerful alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint.

If you’ve heard of Google Slides before, feel free to skip ahead; if you haven't, here’s a crash course on what you need to know. We’ll go over the basics and get you brushed up on what Google Slides is and how you can get started right away.

Slides is a free, web-based presentation program designed to compete with Microsoft Office PowerPoint. It's part of G Suite---Google's complete office suite (though some people refer to it all as Google Docs). The other main services included in the cloud-based suite are Sheets (Excel) and Docs (Word).

Related: What is Google Workspace, Anyway?

Google Slides is available on all devices and platforms; all you need is an internet connection and a web browser (or, in the case of mobile, the Android and iOS apps ). Google does the rest and handles the brunt of the heavy lifting, while it runs the software in the cloud.

Slides supports several file types, including  .ppt, .pptx , .odp, .jpg, .svg, and .pdf. This makes it easy to view or convert Microsoft Office files directly from Google Drive or insert images directly into a slide.

Related: What Is a PPTX File (and How Do I Open One)?

And since Slides is an online presentation program, you can share and collaborate with multiple people on the same file, and track revisions, changes, and suggestions, all in real-time.

Have you heard enough? Let’s get started.

Before you can use Google Slides, you have to sign up for a Google account (an @gmail account). If you already have one, feel free to move on to the next section. If not, we’ll go over the simplest way to create a Google account and get you set up with Slides.

Head over to  accounts.google.com , click "Create Account," and then click "For Myself."

Click "Create Account," and then click "For Myself."

On the next page, you provide some information---first and last name, username, and password---to create your account.

The Create your Google Account page.

Also, you have to verify your phone number, so Google can make sure you’re not a bot.

The "Verifying your phone number" screen on Google.

After you verify your phone number, the subsequent pages require you to provide a recovery email address and your date of birth and gender. You must also agree to the privacy statement and terms of service. After that, you’re the proud new owner of a Google account.

Now that you have a Google account, it’s time to create your first presentation. Head over to  Google Slides  and place the cursor on the multicolored "+" icon in the bottom-right corner.

Place your cursor on the multicolored plus sign (+).

The + turns into a black pencil icon; click it.

Click the black pencil icon.

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 into the address bar from any browser and hit Enter to automatically create and open a new blank document.

Drag and drop your PowerPoint file directly into Google Drive.

Even if you’re new to Google Slides, you might already have a collection of Microsoft PowerPoint files you’d like to be able to use. If that’s the case, then you have to  upload all your presentations  before you can view them. While it might not support some of the more advanced features and effects of some PowerPoint presentations, it works pretty well.

When you import a PowerPoint presentation, you can use either Google Slides or  Drive  to upload your files. Both methods let you drag and drop a file from your computer directly into the web browser for easy uploads. Your Drive houses all of your uploaded files, but---for the sake of convenience---when you go to the Slides homepage, it only shows you presentation-type files.

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From the Slides homepage, click the folder icon in the top right, and then click the "Upload" tab. Now, drag and drop any files you want to upload directly into this window.

Click the folder icon in the top corner, click the Upload tab, and then drag a file from your computer into the window.

Once the file uploads, Slides opens it automatically, and it's ready for you to edit, share, or collaborate.

To open a PowerPoint presentation that you want to edit, click the filename with the "P" next to it from your Google Slides homepage.

Click the filename with the "P" next to it.

Click to either view the PowerPoint file or edit it in Slides.

Click "View Only" or "Edit in Google Slides."

After you’ve finished editing your file, you can download and export your presentation back into a Microsoft PowerPoint format. Just go to File > Download As, and then click the "Microsoft PowerPoint" option.

Click "File," "Download As," and then click "Microsoft PowerPoint."

If you’d rather download your presentation as a PDF, ODP, JPEG, TXT, etc., you can do that here, as well.

The download format options window in Google Slides.

Related: How to Import a PowerPoint Presentation into Google Slides

Now that you have a few presentations, it’s time to make sure your  spelling and grammar are correct . Slides is equipped with a spellchecker. If you misspell something, it underlines the error with a squiggly line and prompts you to make a change.

This should be on by default, but you can make sure in Tools > Spelling > Underline Errors.

Click "Tools," select "Spelling," and then click "Underline Errors."

To see spelling corrections and suggestions, right-click the word with the line underneath. Alternatively, press Ctrl+Alt+X (Windows) or Command+Alt+X (Mac) to open the Spell Check and Grammar tool.

Right-click the error to view the spellchecker's correction.

Along with a spellchecker, Google Slides comes loaded with a built-in dictionary and thesaurus. To use them, highlight a word, right-click it, and then click "Define [word]."

Click "Define [word]."

While this should get you started, we have  a deeper dive into Google’s spelling and grammar checker  if you want more info.

Related: How to Check Your Spelling in Google Docs

The "Share with Others" options in Google Slides.

One of the best features of Google Slides is its ability to  generate a shareable link.  Anyone you share the link with can view, suggest edits to, or directly edit the presentation. This eliminates the hassle of sending a file back and forth between collaborators. Each person has her own text entry cursor to use on her computer.

To do this, click the orange "Share" button in the file you want to share. Next, choose how and with whom you want to send a link to the file. You can type email addresses or click "Get Shareable Link" in the top corner to hand out the invitation yourself.

Type email addresses or click "Get Shareable Link."

From the drop-down menu, you can select one of these options for what other users can do:

  • Off:  Sharing is disabled. If you’ve previously shared a link with others, it will no longer work and revokes any permissions they once had.
  • Anyone with the link can edit:  Gives the shared users full read/write access. They still can’t delete it from your Drive, though---this is just for the contents of the file.
  • Anyone with the link can comment:  Allows shared users to leave comments which is handy for team projects.
  • Anyone with the link can view : Shared users can view the file, but can’t edit it in any way. This is the default action when you share a file, and it's the best option if you’re trying to share a file for download.

You can do a lot more with these shareable links, as they also work with other Drive files and on mobile. For a deeper look at how links work and how to generate them,  check out our post .

Related: How to Create Shareable Download Links for Files on Google Drive

The Version history of a presentation in Google Slides.

When you share documents with others, it’s difficult to keep track of all the small changes that happen if you’re not present. For that, there’s  revision history . Google keeps track of all the changes that occur in a document and groups them into periods to reduce clutter. You can even revert a file to any of the previous versions listed in the history with a click of your mouse.

You can view a list of all recent changes by clicking File > Version History > See Version History. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H (Command+Option+Shift+H on Mac).

Click "File," select "Version History," and then click "See Version History."

Related: How to See Recent Changes to Your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides File

You can also share a link to a specific slide in your presentation with a friend or coworker, without having to mention which one you're referencing. When someone clicks the link and the presentation loads, it jumps directly to the slide you're referencing. You do have to enable file sharing before you can link to a specific slide in your presentation, though.

Because each slide has a unique URL, all you have to do to link to one is click it in the left pane, and then copy the URL from the address bar.

Click the slide, and then copy the URL from the address bar.

Google Slides also has a character insertion tool. This allows you to insert special characters into your presentation without having to remember any Alt-codes. There are tons of symbols, characters, languages, and so much more. So, whether you want an arrow, different language scripts, or if you just want a few silly emojis to spruce up your presentation, Google Slides makes it easy to include them.

To open the character insertion tool, click "Insert," and then click "Special Characters."

Click "Insert," and then click "Special Characters."

From here, you can manually search for specific characters with the drop-down menus.

The "Insert Special Characters" drop-down menu in Google Slides.

Use the search bar to find a specific character or emoji.

The "Insert Special Characters" search bar with "smiling" typed in and the resulting emojis.

You can also use your drawing skills to search.

The "Draw " search feature with a sad face drawn in and the resulting emojis.

Related: How to Insert Symbols into Google Docs and Slides

What happens if you need to access Google Slides but don’t have an internet connection? Although Slides is a web-based product, that  doesn’t mean you can’t use it offline . Any changes you make to the file offline will update the next time you connect to the internet. First, download the extension for Chrome.

To enable a presentation for offline use, go to the Google Slides’ homepage and, in the top-left corner, click the Hamburger menu > Settings. Once here, toggle "Offline" to the On position, and then click "OK."

Click the toggle next to "Offline" to the On position, and then click "OK."

To save storage space on your local machine, Google only downloads and makes the most recently accessed files available offline. To manually enable a file, click the three dots icon, and then toggle "Available Offline" to On.

Click the three dots icon, and then toggle-on "Available Offline."

Related: How to Use Google Docs Offline

Google Slides is a powerful, feature-rich alternative to Microsoft Office's PowerPoint. It's also completely free to use with an internet connection and a Google Account, making it a legitimate competitor for Microsoft.

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Google Workplace (formerly known as Google Suite) is a collection of productivity and collaboration tools that are popular among businesses of all sizes due to its convenience and ease of use. In fact, you might already be using one of the most popular ones, such as:

  • Google Drive for storing files
  • Gmail for email services
  • Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Presentations for collaborating on different types of documents

But, fewer teams have used — or even heard of — Google Sites. After Google gave this tool a complete overhaul in 2016, it’s worth taking a look at for organizations (as well as individuals) that are interested in creating simple Google websites. 

This Google Sites tutorial will take you through step-by-step on how to set-up and publish a basic website in less than an hour. However, before we dive into our guide, let’s take a deeper look at what Google Sites is.

What is Google Sites?

Google Sites is a convenient way to put together a web page or wiki page quickly — without requiring any IT skills, coding, or software installation. You don’t even need to have a separate domain name, as it becomes an extension of the Google Apps account you’re using.

Consider it the Google version of a “website in a box”-sites such as Wix and Squarespace. 

So, how can you use Google Sites?

  • Public sites . For example, customer service portals or simple business websites.
  • Private internal website or  internal wiki . For example, for project management or for use as an intranet.

Google Sites Features

Google Sites comes with a host of useful features, including:

  • Google Sites templates with responsive design across devices
  • Themes that give a coherent, designed look
  • The ability to embed Youtube videos, images, and other content
  • Tables of contents and expandable text for easy overview
  • Integration with other Google Workplace tools: 
  • Add documents or sheets (Google Docs and Google Sheets)
  • Display forms (Google Forms)
  • Add map (Google Maps)
  • Show calendar (Google Calendar)
  • Tool for embedding code to the pages
  • User access and visibility management

The Best Google Sites Templates

How do you want to use Google Sites? That’s the question to answer when choosing the best template for you.

Google Sites comes with several sleek-looking themes. Consider them starting points rather than ready-made sites, as you’ll most likely need to add plenty of content and pages to get the site you need. 

Here are a few Google Sites templates we like:

The Portal Template

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This Portal template is the Google Sites intranet template, aimed at businesses that need a very simple intranet. The template features a prominent search box to help users find the right information quickly.

You’ll also see boxes for adding more information, linking to a Google Calendar to show upcoming events. At the bottom of the template, you have lists where you can add links to important documents such as HR policies, resource groups, and company reports.

The Help Center Template

Google Sites Template (Help Center)

The Help Center template serves as a starting point for creating a customer-facing self-service portal. You can easily use sub-pages to group articles in categories that help customers to navigate to the right article.

The fields with collapsable text in this template allow customers to review the information little by little.

If you choose this template, we’d recommend that you add a search box to it, as it helps customers to find the right information quickly.

The Project Template

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The Project template is practical for gathering all the necessary information about a project in one location. The template states the project mission and then highlights the key outcomes. Other template pages share more information about the team and their motivations, share the background, and list FAQs.

You’ll likely need to add more sections to make the site useful for your team, but the template is a convenient starting point.

The Benefits of Google Sites

  • Free to use
  • Intuitive tools that let you get started in minutes, without installing or downloading any software
  • You can access Google Sites anywhere and from any device
  • Integrated with other Google Workplace tools such as Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Maps
  • Easy to edit and manage access

The Potential Drawbacks of Google Sites

  • To share files to your Google Sites website, you first need to upload them to Google Drive , creating an extra step. You also need to manage all the access levels of the files to ensure that they are visible to the users
  • Google Sites offers limited customization and functionality compared to other alternatives
  • There’s limited integration with apps outside of the tools available via Google Workplace

How to Make a Google Website [Google Sites Tutorial]

The main thing to remember when you’re creating your Google website is that a bit of planning and preparation will make the setup process much easier and faster. When you’ve got your documents, images, and other content ready, you can make a simple site in less than an hour.

Here’s our step-by-step tutorial to get your new Google Sites website up and running in no time:

Step 1: Strategize and prepare content

Before you get started, there are three questions you need to answer.

Question #1: What’s the purpose of your site?

For example:

  • Intranet  — internal site to share news and events to inform employees.
  • Customer service portal — FAQs , tutorials, information to solve issues, and reduce customer service inquiries.
  • Project site — information, news, and documents related to a team project.

Once you’ve decided on the main job of your new Google Sites, you need a simple outline:

Question #2: What pages does your site need to deliver the necessary information?

Look closer to what your actual goal is with the Google Site that you are creating. For some sites, it may be enough with one long page. Other sites will be clearer with a structure consisting of several pages. 

For example, a site dedicated to a project might need:

  • Start page with an overview of the project.
  • Team page with the team members and their contact information.
  • Documents page with necessary policies, reports, and links to documents that are in progress.
  • Goal page that breaks down the main outcome or outcomes into manageable goals.

Question #3: What content will you share on the pages?

It’s now time to gather and organize the content necessary for the site to fulfill this job. What text, images, and other content do you need?

As you’re using Google Sites, the natural solution is to use other Google apps for this, such as:

  • Spreadsheets from Google Sheets
  • Documents from Google Docs
  • Presentations from Google Slides
  • Forms from Google Forms
  • Schedules from Google Calendar
  • PDFs and other types of content from Google Drive
  • Videos uploaded to Youtube (owned by Google) for embedding

You’ll also want to gather all the necessary images in a folder.

The main thing to remember in this stage? Configure the access permissions so that the users can interact with the files or calendar.

Step 2: Choose the Best Google Sites Template for You

You can create your site from scratch. However, Google Sites comes with several ready-made templates. It’s worth taking a look at them as they serve as good starting points for getting your site up quickly.

Click  template gallery to see all of the Google Sites templates:

Google Sites Template Gallery

The templates range from enterprise-focused — such as the Portal template for intranets — to practical templates that small businesses can use for their websites, such as the Restaurant, Salon, and Portfolio templates:

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Select the template for your site by clicking on it.

Step 3: Set Up Your New Google Site

Now when you’ve selected a template, you’ve got a skeleton for starting your website. Let’s start by setting it up with the right title. Click on the title to change the words and style:

You can also change the header image by clicking change image and either choose one of the available images in the Google Sites gallery, from an URL or Google Search, or from your own folder or Google Drive — then click select .

Click on the cogwheel to change the site navigation’s location, upload a logo and favicon, and add a tracking code for using Google Analytics:

Now the site should start to look a bit more like yours!

Step 4: Choose the Right Google Sites Theme

Themes are the easiest way to change the look and feel of your site. Simply click themes in the right sidebar to see the different theme options. Click around and test them to see which one fits you the best.

You can quickly customize the theme further by choosing one of the color schemes or selecting one of your brand colors by marking the paint jar symbol.

You can also click font style to choose between different styles:

Step 5: Add Additional Pages and Sub-pages

Now, it’s time to set up the site structure. Click pages in the right sidebar to get an overview of the site structure:

By clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the sidebar, you can choose to add a new page or a new link. Click new page and enter the name of the page, then click done .

You’ve now got a new page and can click on it in the right sidebar to adjust its settings:

For example, you can turn it into the site’s home page, duplicate it to create new pages that look the same or add a sub-page.

To adjust the site structure, you can drag and drop pages to change the order of the pages in the menu or turn a page into a sub-page.

If you want to, you can hide the page from the Google Sites navigation and instead link to it from another page. For example, here the page “News” has a sub-page called “Latest reviews.” You can choose to make the sub-page invisible in the navigation bar.

Now we want the image to take users to the sub-page. Add a link to the sub-page from the image by clicking on the image and choosing insert link .

Step 6: Add Content to Your Google Website’s Pages

Now it’s time to fill your pages with content. While the templates come preloaded with simple layouts, you’ll likely want to add to them by clicking insert in the right sidebar and then choosing the right content type.

The layouts are useful for letting you add material quickly. Add headlines and texts, or embed video, images, a map, or a view of the calendar:

You can also add the content directly to the page, drag-and-drop style. For example, you can add a document from Google Docs straight to the page by clicking Docs and then choosing the right file. Check the settings to ensure that the files you embed are visible to the users.

Step 7: Review the Site’s User-Friendliness

Once you’ve added all the pages and content you want to your site, it’s time to review it. Is it user-friendly? Is it easy to find the right content? Do you need a search box?

One great way to making a page easier to overview is by adding a table of contents:

Step 8: Add Collaborators

Now you’re ready to invite colleagues to collaborate on the site:

You can invite others by adding their email addresses as well as adjust their access. For example, you can make the draft or the published visible to anyone with the link:

Step 9: Preview Your Google Sites Website

Feeling happy with your work? Click preview to see the site before you publish it:

Switch between the different symbols to see what your site will look like on various devices:

Make any necessary adjustments, and now you’re ready to hit...

Step 10: Publish!

Your site is done! Press publish in the top right corner to share your work with the world:

You can adjust the site’s URL, decide who can access the site, and also whether you want search engines to list it or not:

Congratulations on your new site!

Is Google Sites Right For You?

Even a user that isn’t particularly tech-savvy can get a site up and running in a short time by using Google Sites. It is especially intuitive if you already have some experience working with the G Suite.

Many companies choose to use Google Sites to build simple intranets, as it is easy to manage access levels and only invite certain users. If a very basic site is all that you need, it can be a great option.

However, the simplicity of Google Sites causes its own set of limitations. The main issues are the reliance on Google’s own products — meaning that you can’t integrate other tools — and the lack of customization.

For those looking for a more powerful alternative that they can use in all areas of their business, a knowledge base is a better fit. A knowledge base lets you store, share, and edit information — all in one centralized, secure hub. This means that you won’t have to flit between Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, Sites every time you want to add a new document or manage access.

Important features of a knowledge base include:

  • Powerful search functionality to find information
  • Accessible editing and commenting features for document collaboration
  • Analytics that show how users interact with the content
  • Advanced access and security functions
  • Integrations and customization options

The right knowledge base is a tool to replace many. For example, it can just as well serve as a file repository or a document collaboration platform, as an intranet or a customer support platform.

One of the main weaknesses of Google Sites is the lack of customization. But, your business has its unique needs, and the right tool should adapt to you instead of forcing you to adapt to it. Here at Helpjuice, we pride ourselves on the unlimited customization options available. We’ll even have our support team help you customize your site for you for free. Start your free 14-day trial now.

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Google Sites. Overview Lesson. New Google Tool. Launched February 28, 2008 Lets you easily create a team website. Basics. What is Google Sites? Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document.

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Google Sites Overview Lesson

New Google Tool • Launched February 28, 2008 • Lets you easily create a team website

Basics What is Google Sites? • Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. • Embed rich content (video, Google Docs documents, spreadsheets, presentations, Picasa photo slide shows, iGoogle gadgets) into any page, and upload file attachments

Control of your Site • You control who can access/edit your pages • You control the site’s look-and-feel • You can see and revert back to earlier versions of any of your site’s content • You can be notified via email when pages are updated, comments are made, or files are attached

Storage How much space/pages do you get? • Sites created @ sites.google.com/site • Site quota: 100Mb/site • Max attachment size: 10Mb • Pages per site: unlimited

Attachments How do I attach a document? • You can attach files within the Attachments section at the bottom of any page or within a File Cabinet-type page. • To attach a document to a standard page, click Browse next to Attach a file, browse for the file, select it, and click Open. • Quota is 10 Mb

Deleting a Site How do I delete a site? • To delete a site, please follow these steps: • Go to Site Settings. • Click Other Stuff. • Click Delete this site. • Please note that only owners have the ability to delete sites; once you delete a site, it can't be recovered by anyone. Only choose this option if you're sure that you want to delete the site.

Site Appearance You can change the following: • Themes, colors and fonts • Landing page for my site • Logos • Sidebar navigation • Remove or hide my site title

Creating a Web Page • A web page is an unstructured page where you can enter text, images, tables, and embed spreadsheets, presentations, videos, and more • The Web Page has standard formatting • You can create bulleted lists, numbered lists, and easily link to other pages in your site • You can attach documents from your hard drive to the bottom of the page, and allow other site collaborators to comment on your pages

What is the Dashboard? • A Dashboard page is a two column webpage with four placeholder gadgets to make it easy to get started creating an overview of information • You can create a Dashboard page by changing the layout of a webpage to two columns and inserting gadgets in the page

Announcements, File Cabinet and List Pages • An Announcement page is a page which makes it easy for an individual or group to post chronological information like news, status updates, or notable events • A File Cabinet allows you to manage documents from your hard drive and organize them into folders • List pages allow you to easily track lists of information.

Quiz on Google Sites • You will have a quiz on Google sites terminology during the week of April 27 • You will have to create a simple Google site using the handout provided

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Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform

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Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, a flagship suite of generative AI models, apps and services. But while Gemini appears to be promising in a few aspects, it’s falling short in others — as our informal review revealed .

So what is Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to the competition?

To make it easier to keep up with the latest Gemini developments, we’ve put together this handy guide, which we’ll keep updated as new Gemini models and features are released.

What is Gemini?

Gemini is Google’s long-promised , next-gen GenAI model family, developed by Google’s AI research labs DeepMind and Google Research. It comes in three flavors:

  • Gemini Ultra , the flagship Gemini model.
  • Gemini Pro , a “lite” Gemini model.
  • Gemini Nano , a smaller “distilled” model that runs on mobile devices like the Pixel 8 Pro .

All Gemini models were trained to be “natively multimodal” — in other words, able to work with and use more than just words. They were pretrained and fine-tuned on a variety of audio, images and videos, a large set of codebases and text in different languages.

This sets Gemini apart from models such as Google’s own LaMDA , which was trained exclusively on text data. LaMDA can’t understand or generate anything other than text (e.g., essays, email drafts), but that isn’t the case with Gemini models.

What’s the difference between the Gemini apps and Gemini models?

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Google, proving once again that it lacks a knack for branding, didn’t make it clear from the outset that Gemini is separate and distinct from the Gemini apps on the web and mobile (formerly Bard). The Gemini apps are simply an interface through which certain Gemini models can be accessed — think of it as a client for Google’s GenAI.

Incidentally, the Gemini apps and models are also totally independent from Imagen 2 , Google’s text-to-image model that’s available in some of the company’s dev tools and environments. Don’t worry — you’re not the only one confused by this.

What can Gemini do?

Because the Gemini models are multimodal, they can in theory perform a range of multimodal tasks, from transcribing speech to captioning images and videos to generating artwork. Few of these capabilities have reached the product stage yet (more on that later), but Google’s promising all of them — and more — at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Of course, it’s a bit hard to take the company at its word.

Google seriously underdelivered with the original Bard launch. And more recently it ruffled feathers with a video purporting to show Gemini’s capabilities that turned out to have been heavily doctored and was more or less aspirational.

Google’s best Gemini demo was faked

Still, assuming Google is being more or less truthful with its claims, here’s what the different tiers of Gemini will be able to do once they reach their full potential:

Gemini Ultra

Google says that Gemini Ultra — thanks to its multimodality — can be used to help with things like physics homework, solving problems step-by-step on a worksheet and pointing out possible mistakes in already filled-in answers.

Gemini Ultra can also be applied to tasks such as identifying scientific papers relevant to a particular problem, Google says — extracting information from those papers and “updating” a chart from one by generating the formulas necessary to re-create the chart with more recent data.

Gemini Ultra technically supports image generation, as alluded to earlier. But that capability hasn’t made its way into the productized version of the model yet — perhaps because the mechanism is more complex than how apps such as ChatGPT generate images. Rather than feed prompts to an image generator (like DALL-E 3 , in ChatGPT’s case), Gemini outputs images “natively,” without an intermediary step.

Gemini Ultra is available as an API through Vertex AI, Google’s fully managed AI developer platform, and AI Studio, Google’s web-based tool for app and platform developers. It also powers the Gemini apps — but not for free. Access to Gemini Ultra through what Google calls Gemini Advanced requires subscribing to the Google One AI Premium Plan, priced at $20 per month.

The AI Premium Plan also connects Gemini to your wider Google Workspace account — think emails in Gmail, documents in Docs, presentations in Sheets and Google Meet recordings. That’s useful for, say, summarizing emails or having Gemini capture notes during a video call.

Google says that Gemini Pro is an improvement over LaMDA in its reasoning, planning and understanding capabilities.

An independent study by Carnegie Mellon and BerriAI researchers found that Gemini Pro is indeed better than OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 at handling longer and more complex reasoning chains. But the study also found that, like all large language models, Gemini Pro particularly struggles with math problems involving several digits, and users have found plenty of examples of bad reasoning and mistakes.

Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great

Google’s promised improvements, though — and the first arrived in the form of Gemini 1.5 Pro .

Designed to be a drop-in replacement, Gemini 1.5 Pro (in preview at present) is improved in a number of areas compared with its predecessor, perhaps most significantly in the amount of data that it can process. Gemini 1.5 Pro can (in limited private preview) take in ~700,000 words, or ~30,000 lines of code — 35x the amount Gemini 1.0 Pro can handle. And — the model being multimodal — it’s not limited to text. Gemini 1.5 Pro can analyze up to 11 hours of audio or an hour of video in a variety of different languages, albeit slowly (e.g., searching for a scene in a one-hour video takes 30 seconds to a minute of processing).

Gemini Pro is also available via API in Vertex AI to accept text as input and generate text as output. An additional endpoint, Gemini Pro Vision, can process text and imagery — including photos and video — and output text along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision model.

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Using Gemini Pro in Vertex AI. Image Credits: Gemini

Within Vertex AI, developers can customize Gemini Pro to specific contexts and use cases using a fine-tuning or “grounding” process. Gemini Pro can also be connected to external, third-party APIs to perform particular actions.

Google brings Gemini Pro to Vertex AI

In AI Studio, there’s workflows for creating structured chat prompts using Gemini Pro. Developers have access to both Gemini Pro and the Gemini Pro Vision endpoints, and they can adjust the model temperature to control the output’s creative range and provide examples to give tone and style instructions — and also tune the safety settings.

Gemini Nano

Gemini Nano is a much smaller version of the Gemini Pro and Ultra models, and it’s efficient enough to run directly on (some) phones instead of sending the task to a server somewhere. So far it powers two features on the Pixel 8 Pro: Summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply in Gboard.

The Recorder app, which lets users push a button to record and transcribe audio, includes a Gemini-powered summary of your recorded conversations, interviews, presentations and other snippets. Users get these summaries even if they don’t have a signal or Wi-Fi connection available — and in a nod to privacy, no data leaves their phone in the process.

Gemini Nano is also in Gboard, Google’s keyboard app, as a developer preview . There, it powers a feature called Smart Reply, which helps to suggest the next thing you’ll want to say when having a conversation in a messaging app. The feature initially only works with WhatsApp but will come to more apps in 2024, Google says.

Is Gemini better than OpenAI’s GPT-4?

Google has several times touted Gemini’s superiority on benchmarks, claiming that Gemini Ultra exceeds current state-of-the-art results on “30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks used in large language model research and development.” The company says that Gemini Pro, meanwhile, is more capable at tasks like summarizing content, brainstorming and writing than GPT-3.5.

But leaving aside the question of whether benchmarks really indicate a better model, the scores Google points to appear to be only marginally better than OpenAI’s corresponding models. And — as mentioned earlier — some early impressions haven’t been great, with users and academics pointing out that Gemini Pro tends to get basic facts wrong, struggles with translations and gives poor coding suggestions.

How much will Gemini cost?

Gemini Pro is free to use in the Gemini apps and, for now, AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Once Gemini Pro exits preview in Vertex, however, the model will cost $0.0025 per character while output will cost $0.00005 per character. Vertex customers pay per 1,000 characters (about 140 to 250 words) and, in the case of models like Gemini Pro Vision, per image ($0.0025).

Let’s assume a 500-word article contains 2,000 characters. Summarizing that article with Gemini Pro would cost $5. Meanwhile, generating an article of a similar length would cost $0.1.

Ultra pricing has yet to be announced.

Where can you try Gemini?

The easiest place to experience Gemini Pro is in the Gemini apps . Pro and Ultra are answering queries in a range of languages.

Gemini Pro and Ultra are also accessible in preview in Vertex AI via an API. The API is free to use “within limits” for the time being and supports certain regions, including Europe, as well as features like chat functionality and filtering.

With AI Studio, Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots based on its Gemini model

Elsewhere, Gemini Pro and Ultra can be found in AI Studio. Using the service, developers can iterate prompts and Gemini-based chatbots and then get API keys to use them in their apps — or export the code to a more fully featured IDE.

Duet AI for Developers , Google’s suite of AI-powered assistance tools for code completion and generation, is now using Gemini models. And Google’s brought Gemini models to its dev tools for Chrome and Firebase mobile dev platform.

Gemini Nano is on the Pixel 8 Pro — and will come to other devices in the future. Developers interested in incorporating the model into their Android apps can sign up  for a sneak peek.

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OpenAI has built a striking new generative video model called Sora that can take a short text description and turn it into a detailed, high-definition film clip up to a minute long.

Based on four sample videos that OpenAI shared with MIT Technology Review ahead of today’s announcement, the San Francisco–based firm has pushed the envelope of what’s possible with text-to-video generation (a hot new research direction that we flagged as a trend to watch in 2024 ).

“We think building models that can understand video, and understand all these very complex interactions of our world, is an important step for all future AI systems,” says Tim Brooks, a scientist at OpenAI.

But there’s a disclaimer. OpenAI gave us a preview of Sora (which means sky in Japanese) under conditions of strict secrecy. In an unusual move, the firm would only share information about Sora if we agreed to wait until after news of the model was made public to seek the opinions of outside experts. [Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with outside comment below.] OpenAI has not yet released a technical report or demonstrated the model actually working. And it says it won’t be releasing Sora anytime soon. [ Update: OpenAI has now shared more technical details on its website.]

The first generative models that could produce video from snippets of text appeared in late 2022. But early examples from Meta , Google, and a startup called Runway were glitchy and grainy. Since then, the tech has been getting better fast. Runway’s gen-2 model, released last year, can produce short clips that come close to matching big-studio animation in their quality. But most of these examples are still only a few seconds long.  

The sample videos from OpenAI’s Sora are high-definition and full of detail. OpenAI also says it can generate videos up to a minute long. One video of a Tokyo street scene shows that Sora has learned how objects fit together in 3D: the camera swoops into the scene to follow a couple as they walk past a row of shops.

OpenAI also claims that Sora handles occlusion well. One problem with existing models is that they can fail to keep track of objects when they drop out of view. For example, if a truck passes in front of a street sign, the sign might not reappear afterward.  

In a video of a papercraft underwater scene, Sora has added what look like cuts between different pieces of footage, and the model has maintained a consistent style between them.

It’s not perfect. In the Tokyo video, cars to the left look smaller than the people walking beside them. They also pop in and out between the tree branches. “There’s definitely some work to be done in terms of long-term coherence,” says Brooks. “For example, if someone goes out of view for a long time, they won’t come back. The model kind of forgets that they were supposed to be there.”

Impressive as they are, the sample videos shown here were no doubt cherry-picked to show Sora at its best. Without more information, it is hard to know how representative they are of the model’s typical output.   

It may be some time before we find out. OpenAI’s announcement of Sora today is a tech tease, and the company says it has no current plans to release it to the public. Instead, OpenAI will today begin sharing the model with third-party safety testers for the first time.

In particular, the firm is worried about the potential misuses of fake but photorealistic video . “We’re being careful about deployment here and making sure we have all our bases covered before we put this in the hands of the general public,” says Aditya Ramesh, a scientist at OpenAI, who created the firm’s text-to-image model DALL-E .

But OpenAI is eyeing a product launch sometime in the future. As well as safety testers, the company is also sharing the model with a select group of video makers and artists to get feedback on how to make Sora as useful as possible to creative professionals. “The other goal is to show everyone what is on the horizon, to give a preview of what these models will be capable of,” says Ramesh.

To build Sora, the team adapted the tech behind DALL-E 3, the latest version of OpenAI’s flagship text-to-image model. Like most text-to-image models, DALL-E 3 uses what’s known as a diffusion model. These are trained to turn a fuzz of random pixels into a picture.

Sora takes this approach and applies it to videos rather than still images. But the researchers also added another technique to the mix. Unlike DALL-E or most other generative video models, Sora combines its diffusion model with a type of neural network called a transformer.

Transformers are great at processing long sequences of data, like words. That has made them the special sauce inside large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google DeepMind’s Gemini . But videos are not made of words. Instead, the researchers had to find a way to cut videos into chunks that could be treated as if they were. The approach they came up with was to dice videos up across both space and time. “It’s like if you were to have a stack of all the video frames and you cut little cubes from it,” says Brooks.

The transformer inside Sora can then process these chunks of video data in much the same way that the transformer inside a large language model processes words in a block of text. The researchers say that this let them train Sora on many more types of video than other text-to-video models, varied in terms of resolution, duration, aspect ratio, and orientation. “It really helps the model,” says Brooks. “That is something that we’re not aware of any existing work on.”

“From a technical perspective it seems like a very significant leap forward,” says Sam Gregory, executive director at Witness, a human rights organization that specializes in the use and misuse of video technology. “But there are two sides to the coin,” he says. “The expressive capabilities offer the potential for many more people to be storytellers using video. And there are also real potential avenues for misuse.” 

OpenAI is well aware of the risks that come with a generative video model. We are already seeing the large-scale misuse of deepfake images . Photorealistic video takes this to another level.

Gregory notes that you could use technology like this to misinform people about conflict zones or protests. The range of styles is also interesting, he says. If you could generate shaky footage that looked like something shot with a phone, it would come across as more authentic.

The tech is not there yet, but generative video has gone from zero to Sora in just 18 months. “We’re going to be entering a universe where there will be fully synthetic content, human-generated content and a mix of the two,” says Gregory.

The OpenAI team plans to draw on the safety testing it did last year for DALL-E 3. Sora already includes a filter that runs on all prompts sent to the model that will block requests for violent, sexual, or hateful images, as well as images of known people. Another filter will look at frames of generated videos and block material that violates OpenAI’s safety policies.

OpenAI says it is also adapting a fake-image detector developed for DALL-E 3 to use with Sora. And the company will embed industry-standard C2PA tags , metadata that states how an image was generated, into all of Sora’s output. But these steps are far from foolproof. Fake-image detectors are hit-or-miss. Metadata is easy to remove, and most social media sites strip it from uploaded images by default.  

“We’ll definitely need to get more feedback and learn more about the types of risks that need to be addressed with video before it would make sense for us to release this,” says Ramesh.

Brooks agrees. “Part of the reason that we’re talking about this research now is so that we can start getting the input that we need to do the work necessary to figure out how it could be safely deployed,” he says.

Update 2/15: Comments from Sam Gregory were added .

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