Hey all, quick question! It seems like

[vapid mica]

The tech industry has an unfortunate habit of poor naming conventions.

Don't confuse the following as they are all different:

• Gemini Applications: various user interfaces
• Gemini API: programming interface
• Gemini Models: such as Gemini 1.0 and Gemini 1.5

For image generation you would have to look at Imagen text-to-image diffusion model

[stable patrol]

See https://code.iaflw.com/2024/02/gemini-versus-gemini-understanding.html to untangle the terminology.

[winter tangle]

What makes the confusion worse is that google claimed that as a truly multimodal model, Gemini the model was able to generate images (back during the demo stuff)

[vapid mica]

Sure Google didn't do anyone any favors but this is not limited to Google.

ChatGPT != OpenAI API != GPT

Which is only slightly better as they didn't call it GPT API 🤪

[winter tangle]

Google did the most painful one though

Gemini, the site at gemini.google.com
Gemini, the model
Gemini, renamed duet ai
Gemini, the assistant

At least openai didnt name everything chatgpt

[vapid mica]

Can't argue with that 🤣

[winter tangle]

Then they say Gemini API when referring to the generativelanguage api

and then we have the Vertex AI API to access models including Gemini

😎👍

[nocturne widget]

Hey this really helped me to understand! Thanks a lot

[nocturne widget]

Thanks! it helped. It sad that I can't build anything generate image with API for Hackathon. There should be tons of other ideas for text based output. Thanks

[stable patrol]

Image generation is done using the Imagen model.

[vapid mica]

I'm not involved with nor participating in the hackaton in anyway but I see others requesting and getting access to Imagen through Vertex API. I don't know the conditions, restrictions, or potential costs.

Check out the hackathon forum at https://googleai.devpost.com/forum_topics

[nocturne widget]

Amazing! Thanks for info

[vapid mica]

Good luck and have fun!

[still oasis]

can we integrate - lets say google location api, search api and other apis on top of gemini for the hackathon ? even 3rd party api ?