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Google brings Gemini Live to Android phones
Google is upping the ante in the AI wars with the debut of Gemini Live, a sophisticated AI chatbot that can tackle free-flowing conversations.
“It’s like having a sidekick in your pocket who you can chat with about new ideas or practice with for an important conversation,” wrote Sissie Hsiao, Google’s vice president and general manager, Gemini Experiences and Google Assistant.
Similar to ChatGPT’s voice mode, Gemini Live can be interrupted mid-sentence. However, it adds several features not seen in ChatGPT: Users can keep talking with Gemini Live on the go, even with their phones locked. It also comes in 10 voices.
Gemini Live is available in English to Gemini Advanced subscribers and will expand to iOS and other languages in the coming weeks.
Gemini Live is separate from Google Assistant, which is also getting a Gemini upgrade. The assistant is integrated into the operating system to complete tasks across apps.
Anthropic’s Claude for Google Sheets
Anthropic’s large language model, Claude, now comes in an extension for Google Sheets. The AI chatbot lets users ask questions in natural language directly in the spreadsheet and get answers. Claude can help with spreadsheet tasks, including the following:
- Analyzing data sets
- Simplifying formulas
- Translating text
- Classification
- Extracting information (such as email addresses)
- Removing personally identifiable information
- Summarizing content
- Advanced document Q&A with citations
While the extension is free, users will also need to access the Anthropic API, after which the meter starts running for prompt inputs and generations.
Stanford students add chat to arXiv papers
Ever have a question for the researchers who publish papers in arXiv, the public research repository run by Cornell University, but don’t know how to reach them in a timely manner?
Now, students from Stanford have created AlphaXiv, which adds a chat and comment column to the right of any arXiv paper to enable discussions, according to the Stanford AI Lab. Simply replace the arXiv in the URL to alphaXiv and the discussion section will appear.
The tool also comes as a Chrome extension.
