HISTORY OF DEV

February 15, 2024

Google Gemini 1.5 announced

Google announced GeminiGoogle's family of multimodal AI models — successors to PaLM and competitors to GPT and Claude. 1.5 on February 15, 2024 with a 1M-token context window and Mixture-of-Experts architecture.

What it was for

Gemini (language model)GeminiGoogle's family of multimodal AI models — successors to PaLM and competitors to GPT and Claude. 1.5 Pro's million-token context let developers pass entire codebases, books, or video in one prompt — a leap beyond 128K competitors. MoE architecture improved efficiency; the release kept Google competitive with GPTGenerative Pre-trained Transformer — OpenAI's family of large language models from GPT-1 through GPT-5.-4 Turbo and Claude 3.

Companies

  • Google

Why it's here

GeminiGoogle's family of multimodal AI models — successors to PaLM and competitors to GPT and Claude. 1.5's 1M context reset expectations for long-document AI workflows.

Why it mattered

Million-token windows enabled whole-repo analysis without chunking hacks.

What it solved

Large inputs had to be split and stitched, losing cross-document context.

Media

  • Gemini (language model)
    ImageGemini (language model)

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