Gemini Advanced explained: Availability, language support, and more

Google’s Gemini brand has taken on many personas since its debut as only an AI language model. Today, it refers to a chatbot of the same name, a whole family of language models, various Android features, and a monthly subscription. The latter refers to Gemini Advanced, which comes bundled with Google One AI Premium and unlocks some of the search giant’s most cutting-edge AI advancements. Should you upgrade? Let’s break it down.

What is Gemini Advanced?

To understand Google’s Gemini Advanced product, we first have to understand Gemini itself. As mentioned above, Gemini typically refers to Google’s chatbot and its underlying family of AI language models.

Powered by the Gemini 1.5 Pro LLM, the chatbot can process voice, text, and image prompts and create images on demand. Like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, Gemini gains a new Android app that allows mobile users a direct, dedicated portal to the service. iOS users can access Gemini through the Google iOS app. Google Gemini has a new web portal, too.

Upon installation of the new app on your Android smartphone, Gemini effectively replaces Google Assistant on your device. As a result, the new app will handle many of Assistant’s current tasks, including controlling smart home items, placing calls, setting alarms, and more. This also means that Gemini can be summoned through on-screen buttons, hardware buttons, swipe shortcuts, or vocally through the “Hey Google” keyword.

While the base Gemini offering is free, Gemini Advanced is not. As its name suggests, Advanced adds more complexity and ability to the Gemini experience. It’s based on the Gemini 2.0 Pro LLM — the company’s most potent large language model — giving it a deeper understanding of prompts and logical reasoning nuances. This means it can tackle longer instructions and can complete more intricate tasks demanded of it. Essentially, Gemini Advanced is a premium tier of Gemini with more tricks up its sleeve. Think of it as a ChatGPT Plus or Copilot Pro competitor.

Google notes that Advanced will gain more features as it continues to work on the offering.

How much does Gemini Advanced cost?

As mentioned above, Gemini Advanced is not free. As Google’s most powerful offering, it demands a monthly fee.

Gemini Advanced forms part of a new Google One AI Premium tier, which costs $19.99 per month in the US — $10 on top of the current 2TB storage plan. The plan includes access to Gemini Advanced, 2TB of One storage, and Gemini for Workspace (formerly Duet AI) in Google’s office products, like Docs and Gmail, at a later date. If you want to try Gemini Advanced, there’s typically a one-month trial for the tier but this varies from time to time. Google also bundles a full year of the subscription with the Pixel 9 series, making the latter much more enticing if you care about cutting-edge features.

Gemini Advanced features: What do you get?

To summarize, you get the following features with Gemini Advanced over and above the free tier:

1. Access to the higher-quality Gemini 2.0 Pro language model, with a significantly larger context window of up to 1 million tokens. This allows the chatbot to retain much more information within a single chat and gives you the ability to upload large files like 1,500-page PDF documents.
2. Gemini in Google Workspace features such as Help Me Write and a chatbot within the Gmail app.
3. The ability to run and execute Python code directly in the chat interface.
4. The NotebookLM Plus tier, which offers higher limits and customizable response styles in the note-taking app.
5. Priority access to the chatbot’s latest features such as Gemini Live in the past.
6. While not a Gemini feature directly, the subscription also unlocks 2TB of cloud storage and other standard Google One benefits.

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