Google has officially announced the launch of its own artificial intelligence system, Gemini. According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who presented the latest development, Gemini 1.0 is currently the company’s most powerful and versatile AI model. He noted that the technology was originally created as multimodal: it can summarize, understand, combine and operate with various types of information, including text, code, audio, images and video.

According to the creators, Gemini AI is capable of extracting information from hundreds of thousands of documents through reading, filtering and understanding, this will help achieve real breakthroughs in the field of digital technologies in a variety of fields – from science to finance. Gemini is trained to recognize and understand text, images, audio and more simultaneously, so it better understands the nuances of information and can answer even complex questions. Also, the new AI model is capable of understanding and generating code in programming languages ​​such as Python, Java, C++ and Go.

A special feature of Gemini is its ability to work effectively on various types of equipment: from data processing centers (DPCs) to mobile devices. The Gemini 1.0 model will be implemented in several versions: Gemini Ultra – the largest and most powerful version for solving complex problems, Gemini Pro – a mid-level version for a wide range of tasks and Gemini Nano – a version for mobile devices.

As for using Gemini in Google products, the Bard AI chatbot has already received an enhanced version of Gemini Pro for more complex reasoning, planning, understanding, etc.; This is Bard’s biggest update since launch. Its new version will be available in English in more than 170 countries, and in the future it is planned to expand the geography and support of various languages. Gemini Nano will also be implemented in the Google Pixel 8 Pro smartphone, it will become the first mobile device to support this technology. In the coming months, Gemini support will appear in Search, Advertising, the Chrome browser and other Google services, the developers promise.

Apple has already switched its smartphones to USB-C port due to the latest EU laws, but now India wants to implement the same, and this is a problem for Apple.

According to Reuters, India also wants to oblige manufacturers to switch to a single USB-C standard and is currently negotiating with manufacturers to introduce this requirement in the country by June 2025. The source says all manufacturers agreed…except Apple.

The bottom line is that India may oblige manufacturers to convert all smartphones that will be sold in the country to USB-C from the moment the law comes into force. For Apple, this means that for India specifically, the iPhone 15 models already converted to USB-C are not enough – it is necessary to abandon Lightning for all other smartphones that will still be produced and sold in India by the summer of 2025.

Of course, Apple will not do this, since it is not practical for India alone. The company said that if the law is passed, it will be difficult to achieve production targets set under the Indian government’s manufacturing incentive scheme. The company is asking that older iPhone models be added to the list of exceptions so that the new law does not apply to them.

Apple, in its new iOS update, has added support for the Qi2 wireless charging standard to older iPhone models.

Qi2 support was found in iOS 17.2, which is now available as a candidate version. It states that Qi2 will be supported by smartphones of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 lines. Currently, only the latest iPhone 15 has support for the standard.

Let us remember that Qi2 is a new universal standard for wireless charging, which Apple also helped develop.