Google Bard to Google Gemini is what they call Gemini 1.0.
Gemini consists of Gemini Nano, Gemini Pro, & Gemini Ultra.
Gemini Nano is for embedded and portable devices I guess? The free version of Gemini (gemini.google.com) is Gemini Pro. The paid version, called Gemini Advanced is using Gemini Ultra.
What we're reading now is about Gemini Pro version 1.0 switching to version 1.5 as of today.
People make fun of OpenAI for not using product names and just calling it "GPT" but at least it's straightforward: 2, 3, 3.5, 4. (On the API side it's a little more complicated since there's "turbo" and "instruct" but that isn't exposed to users, and turbo is basically the default.)
and why have makersuite/aisuite in the first place, if Vertex AI is the center for all things AI? and why aitestkitchen?
I'm seeing only Gemini 1.0 Pro on Vertex AI. So even if I enabled Google Gemini Advanced (Ultra?), enabled Vertex AI API access, I have to first be blessed by Google to access advanced APIs.
It seems paying for their service doesn't mean anything to Google at this point. As a developer, you have to jump through hoops first.
"Gemini 1.0 Ultra, our most sophisticated and capable model for complex tasks, is now generally available on Vertex AI for customers via allowlist."
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...