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Google Gemini AI explained: Cost, features, availability, and controversies

Google has rebranded its Bard AI as Gemini AI, but it's more than a name change. Here's what's new and whether you'll need to pay for it.

Google has laid off tens of thousands of workers in the past year, and cited AI policies when justifying its most recent layoffs in the engineering and ad sales teams. Later, we learned that the people tasked with training and improving Bard are dealing with stressful working conditions, given just three minutes to determine how accurate a response is when that answer might require significant research. It also started working with Google Lens to better contextualize your uploaded photos, while also letting you change whether Bard's responses were more casual or professional, or either long or short.

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