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What is Gemini Live? How Google's real-time chatbot competes with GPT-4o

Google made several big announcements at I/O 2024, including a new way to have natural voice conversations with its Gemini model.

Kerry Wan/ZDNETFollowing OpenAI's Spring Update event yesterday, Google demoed its superpowered artificial intelligence voice assistant to rival GPT-4o. Gemini Live leverages an improved multimodal AI model to offer mobile users a more natural conversational experience in real time. For example, you can ask Gemini Live questions at your own pace and interrupt the AI bot mid-sentence to have it clarify or adjust how it's replying, similar to what OpenAI showed off during its GPT-4o demo.

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