Something on #Google and its play on #AI / #OpenAI ....
This came within a newsletter, no way to get to the original (and noted, a "hard paywall"... FWIW, Can't verify, but sounds plausible.

How Google is Planning to Beat Open AI

Reconciling differences over everything from remote work to code, Google’s newly merged AI SWAT team is preparing for a big fall launch

In April, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took an unusual step: merging two large artificial intelligence teams—with distinct cultures and code—to catch up to and surpass OpenAI and other rivals.

Now the test of that effort is coming, with hundreds of people scrambling to release a group of large machine-learning models—one of the highest-stakes products the company has ever built—this fall. The models, collectively known as Gemini, are expected to give Google the ability to build products its competitors can’t, according to a person involved with Gemini’s development.

OpenAI's GPT-4 large-language model can understand and produce conversational text. Gemini will go beyond that, combining the text capabilities of LLMs like GPT-4 with the ability to create AI images based on a text description, similar to AI-image generators Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, this person said. Gemini's image capabilities haven't been previously reported.

Google employees have also discussed using Gemini to offer features like analyzing charts or creating graphics with text descriptions and controlling software using text or voice commands. Google is betting on Gemini to power services ranging from its Bard chatbot, which competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

by Jon Victor of The Information( hard paywalled)