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TECH T@LK

Google adds big safety feature to its Chrome browser

Google has also introduced ‘Gemini’ as the company’s “largest and most capable AI model”

OUR BUREAU Unlike existing AI models that typically deal
with only one type of user prompt, such as exclu-
Los Angeles, CA
sively images or text, Gemini was built to be “mul-
oogle has been trying its best to up its secu- timodal,” Google said. This means it accepts inputs
rity game. Speaking of the latest develop- that include multiple types of media, combining
Gment, the company’s Safety Check feature text, images, audio, video and programming code.
for Chrome, which, among other things, checks the “This new era of models represents one of the
internet to see if any of your saved passwords have biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve un-
been compromised, will now “run automatically in dertaken as a company,” said Google CEO Sundar
the background” on desktop. Pichai in a blog post, according to a report.
As per The Verge, the constant checks could Google’s Gemini model outperformed rival
mean that users are alerted about a password that they AI models in testing across more than two dozen
should change sooner than they would have before. the next few weeks.” benchmarks commonly used by AI researchers to
Safety Check also watches for bad extensions The automatic Safety Check feature is rolling evaluate an algorithm’s reading comprehension,
or site permissions users need to look at, and they out now to Chrome desktop users globally. mathematical ability, and multistep reasoning
can act on Safety Check alerts from Chrome’s Recently, in its most ambitious effort to com- skills, the company said.
three-dot menu. In addition, Google in a blog post pete in the rapidly growing field of generative ar- “We do see it setting new kinds of frontiers
said that Safety Check can revoke a site’s permis- tificial intelligence (AI), Google has introduced across the board,” Eli Collins, vice president of
sions if users haven’t visited it in a while. ‘Gemini’ as the company’s “largest and most capa- product at Google DeepMind, told reporters on a
Google also announced an upcoming feature ble AI model”. conference call Tuesday.
for Chrome’s tab groups, also on desktop: Chrome Gemini is designed to compete with the likes of Taking to X, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also
will let users save tab groups so that users can use OpenAI’s GPT models and supercharge everything shared about the launch of Gemini, posting, “Intro-
those groups across devices, which might be handy from Google’s consumer apps to Android smart- ducing Gemini 1.0, our most capable and general
when moving between a PC at home and a laptop phones and that foresees the tech giant’s model AI model yet. Built natively to be multimodal, it’s
when travelling. being used in every setting, from big companies to the first step in our Gemini-era of models. Gemini
As per Google, this feature will roll out “over consumer devices such as the Google Pixel 8 Pro. is optimized in three sizes - Ultra, Pro, and Nano.”

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