Google has released their end of year recap, looking back at 2023 and their biggest product moments!
1. The Gemini era
Gemini, the largest and most capable AI model yet and the next step toward making AI more helpful for everyone. It’s built to be multimodal, meaning it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different kinds of information, including text, audio, video and code. Gemini is also the most flexible model yet, efficiently built to run on everything from mobile phones to data centers with three sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano. You can already use Gemini Pro in Bard and Gemini Nano in Pixel 8 Pro, and we just released the Gemini API for developers and Google Cloud customers last week.
2. Bard entered the chat
Google debuted Bard, an interactive experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI. Bard has expanded considerably since its launch: Bard learned how to code, added visual capabilities and expanded globally and connected to more Google apps and services. Oh, and soon Bard and Assistant will start working together!
3. Generative AI in Search
Search Generative Experience (SGE) is a Search Labs experiment that uses generative AI to help you understand topics in faster, easier ways and uncover new insights. You can get AI-powered overviews that bring together the most helpful and relevant information available for your search, with links to learn more. This year, Google also added the ability to create images with generative AI.
4. Android kept the updates coming
Android 14 dropped, and with it came tons of customization updates, like new options and styles for shortcuts, generative AI wallpapers, color palettes, fonts, widgets and more. Android 14 also includes new health, security and data upgrades and expanded features for low-vision and hard-of-hearing users. And we launched Magic Compose in beta, a Google Messages generative AI tool that helps you find exactly the right words.
5. The Pixel family
The Pixel Fold, The company’s first foldable phone, made its big debut in 2023. Meanwhile, A-series with Pixel 7a, continued, and Google launched Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. The latest Pixel series is powered by Google Tensor G3 and sports a new batch of pro-level camera features. The Pixel 8 Pro is also the first smartphone with AI built in, now running Gemini Nano to power new features such as Summarize in the Recorder app. There’s more to the Pixel family than phones: This year also marked the debut of the brand new Pixel Tablet and its slick docking station. And Pixel Buds Pro got an upgrade with clearer voice calling, suggestions for hearing wellness and more.
Google also introduced the Google Pixel Watch 2, a more powerful smartwatch with improved health insights and new safety features for peace of mind, and the Fitbit Charge 6, which comes with real-time heart rate tracking that connects to compatible exercise equipment plus seven days of battery life. And there were two major software upgrades for wearables: The new Fitbit app made its way to the Google Pixel Watch and Fitbit devices, and a new version of Wear OS brought new productivity and entertainment features to Google Pixel Watch and other Wear OS-enabled devices.
See the full list on their blog here.
