AI Briefing — Google Gemini 1.5 Pro Enters General Availability

Executive briefing: Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Pro general availability during Google I/O on 14 May 2024. The model targets enterprise developers with extended context windows, multimodal reasoning, and responsible AI tooling.

Key updates

• Long-context reasoning. Gemini 1.5 Pro supports up to 2 million tokens for codebases, videos, and document corpora.
• Multimodal inputs. Developers can blend text, audio, and imagery through Google AI Studio, with Vertex AI grounding APIs for enterprise data.
• Governance controls. Vertex AI offers configurable safety filters, data controls, and audit logging for regulated workloads.

Implementation guidance

• Pilot Gemini 1.5 Pro for requirements analysis, documentation synthesis, and multimodal support workflows.
• Configure Vertex AI data governance settings to segregate customer data and enforce least-privilege access.
• Integrate grounding APIs and safety filters into application pipelines before exposing Gemini outputs to end users.

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