{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-06-gemini-1/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-06-gemini-1/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2023-12-06-gemini-1","date":"2023-12-06","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0","deck":null,"takeaway":"Google introduced Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes, a natively multimodal model family; Gemini Ultra was reported as the first model to exceed human-expert performance on MMLU (90.0%).","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Introducing Gemini (Google)","url":"https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"blog.google"},{"n":2,"title":"Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models (arXiv)","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805","type":"paper","group":"primary","domain":"arxiv.org"}],"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"],"title":"Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0","summary":"Google introduced Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes, a natively multimodal model family; Gemini Ultra was reported as the first model to exceed human-expert performance on MMLU (90.0%).","key_facts":["Announced 6 December 2023","Three sizes: Ultra, Pro, Nano (on-device, Pixel 8 Pro)","Gemini Ultra: 90.0% on MMLU (with CoT@32), per Google","Bard switched to Gemini Pro; Bard was renamed Gemini in February 2024","Product of the April 2023 merger of Google Brain and DeepMind"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["llm","multimodal","gemini"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nGoogle's first model from the merged Google DeepMind was trained to be multimodal from the start across text, images, audio and video.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nGoogle's main answer to GPT-4, beginning a Gemini line that reached the frontier with Gemini 2.5 and 3.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2024-02-15-gemini-1-5","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-02-15-gemini-1-5/","date":"2024-02-15","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Gemini 1.5 Pro brings a 1-million-token context window","deck":null,"takeaway":"Made million-token context a practical reality and shifted how developers used LLMs (whole-document and whole-repo prompting).","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind"]},{"id":"2023-03-14-gpt-4","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-03-14-gpt-4/","date":"2023-03-14","date_precision":"day","short_title":"OpenAI releases GPT-4","deck":null,"takeaway":"Defined the frontier for over a year and triggered serious policy attention to AI risk (pause letter, hearings, summits).","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["OpenAI"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/google-deepmind-gemini-1-0"}