Google upgrades its Gemini AI chatbot to Gemini 1.5 Flash LLM, offering faster responses and improved accuracy in over 40 languages and 230+ countries.

Users will experience reduced latency, enhanced reasoning, and better image understanding on both web and mobile platforms with Gemini 1.5 Flash.

Gemini's AI assistant now features an expanded context window of 32,000 tokens for longer and more complex conversations.

Google is adding features like file uploads from Google Drive, data analysis, and visualization tools to enhance Gemini's user experience, especially for academic purposes.

Gemini's citation feature, currently available for English prompts, includes inline links to relevant emails with the Gmail extension activated.

To ensure accuracy and combat AI hallucinations, Google introduces a double-check feature using Google Search and a citation feature displaying links to online sources for verification.

Gemini 1.5 Flash is claimed to be 40% faster than OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and is the fastest model in the market, being 20% faster than ChatGPT-4o and 40% faster than GPT-3.5.

Gemini prioritizes user safety and responsibility by implementing policies, safeguards, and partnerships with child safety experts.

Google expands Gemini access to teenagers in 40 languages, introduces Gemini in Google Messages to the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, and plans a global expansion with safeguards for responsible use.

New updates to Gemini include the ability to analyze data files, provide insights, and visualize data through charts and graphics, aiming to compete with ChatGPT.

Other AI models like ChatGPT and Perplexity also add citations and links to ensure attribution, though issues of fake links have been reported.

Google aims to prevent misuse of generative AI tools by teens and is providing an 'AI literacy guide' for responsible usage.