Google Releases Gemini Pro to Enterprises and Developers
- Paul Thurrott
- Dec 13, 2023
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One week after announcing its Gemini AI model, Google today said that its Pro tier is now available for enterprises along with a developer API and some Duet availability updates.
“Today, we’re making Gemini Pro available to developers and organizations, as well as a range of other AI tools, models, and infrastructure,” a new post to Google’s The Keyword blog explains. “We’re also introducing other models in Vertex AI to help developers and enterprises flexibly build and ship applications. And we announced general availability of Duet AI for Developers and Duet AI in Security Operations.”
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According to Google, Gemini Pro outperforms other similarly-sized AI models on research benchmarks, and the first version it’s releasing today is free within limits and will be competitively priced at general availability early next year ($0.00025 per 1000 characters and $0.0025 per image on input and $0.0005 per 1000 characters on output). It offers a 32,000-character context window for text, but future versions will be larger, and it supports function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval and custom knowledge grounding, and chat functionality in 38 languages across over 180 countries and territories.
This first release of Gemini Pro accepts text as input and generates text as output. But there is also a dedicated Gemini Pro Vision multimodal endpoint that’s available today and accepts text and imagery as input, with text output.
Google has also released Gemini Pro SDKs that support Python, Kotlin (for Android), Node.js, Swift, and JavaScript. It recommends that developers use its web-based AI Studio, which is free and offers 60 requests per minute for free, to work with this SDK. But you can also use Android Studio, Colab, or Project IDX. And there’s a Vertex API on Google Cloud that lets developers customize Gemini with data control and the additional enterprise security, safety, privacy, and data governance and compliance features in Google Cloud. (At general availability, Google will charge per 1,000 characters or per image across Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.)
Finally, Duet AI for Developers and Duet AI in Security Operations are both generally available today. Gemini Pro will reach general availability early next year, Google says.