Google rolls out Neural Expressive redesign of Gemini AI tool
Among a slew of announcements during Google's annual IO developer conference, the American technology company announced a new visual identity for its Gemini AI model, with new typography and "vibrant colours".
The Google I/O conference is currently taking place in Mountain View, California. This year, the company dove further into expanding and redesigning Gemini, including integrating it into upcoming AI-powered glasses to be released in the fall.
It is accompanied by a redesign of other graphic elements across Google's platforms, including its app icons.
For Gemini's reimaged look, the programme will greet users with a "stunning new design language" called Neural Expressive, which also includes software updates such as regional accents and dialects for its chatbot.
"We've completely redesigned the entire experience with Neural Expressive," said Gemini vice president Josh Woodward during a keynote talk at the conference. "We've added fluid animation, vibrant colours, new topography and passive feedback throughout the app."
"But all know that good design isn't just about how it looks. Good design is about how it works. So, we've evolved the entire experience and made it easier to discover and generate gorgeous images, videos, and music."
The redesign focuses on the UX design of the Gemini chat experience, including type and voice-to-text.
Before, a response would appear in the app as a wall of text, but now responses will be generated with images, video and other features, such as timelines.
It will also include generated images and diagrams that users can zoom into.
"The entire experience feels fluid and futuristic and incredibly natural," said Woodward.
According to Woodward, the redesign also allowed the team to integrate Gemini Omni into the chatbot, which is the company's newly announced AI-video generating application.
Together, it allows people to input a combination of images, audio, video and text to generate and edit a video.
As for the appearance of Gemini, it features a light or dark mode, which is overlayed with a blue gradient. The typography is a simple sans-serif, with various ombres used for word highlighting and other details.
The app icons also feature a similar, softly illuminated mix of colours.
Other announcements during the Google I/O keynote included Project Genie, which allows users to generate 3D environments based on real places from Street View and updates to Proverence, a service that checks for AI-generated materials in images and video that's also integrated within a chat.
The company also debuted Co-Scientist, an AI research tool for scientists, as well as advancements in Weather Next, which aids in predicting weather, and models that help with molecular modelling for health research.
"Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world," said Google DeepMind Technologies CEO Demis Hassbis.
"When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity."
Google was recently hired to develop an AI planning tool for the UK government and collaborated with British designer Ross Lovegrove and his studio to co-create a chair using a generative AI trained on the designer's sketches.
The images are courtesy of Google.
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