While the name doesn't coincide with its launch date (and in fact the tool went by a different name, Bard, originally), Gemini was named after the astrological symbol's dual-natured personality -- the ability to adapt quickly and connect to a wide range of people, all while seeing things from multiple perspectives.
Gemini got its new name "because we wanted to bring teams working on language modeling closer together," said Jeff Dean, Gemini's co-technical lead.
In those short two weeks, I had the opportunity to navigate its "Help me write" prompt to suggest texts based on what I inserted into the text screen. This can include drafts for a blog post, help writing song lyrics and rewriting original text to edit for tone or to be concise.
Additionally, you can use Gemini in Google Docs to summarize files from Google Drive and emails from Gmail and create images.
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