At the Google I/O 2024 conference, CEO Sundar Pichai introduced the Gemini AI model, marking Google's advancement in the AI field.

Google revealed the multimodal capacities of Gemini Nano and expanded AI-generated summaries in search results, reflecting its aim to develop versatile all-purpose assistants.

The new AI Overviews feature provides automatic AI-written summaries of search results, with a default opt-in setting that users can change.

Chrome users can disable AI Overviews by altering browser settings and creating a custom default search engine.

Google and OpenAI are competing in AI innovation, unveiling Astra and ChatGPT-4o respectively, both capable of advanced real-time multimodal interactions.

Google's Astra, part of DeepMind, is expected to integrate into Google products by year-end, while OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o will soon be free for users.

Google's AI showcases a 2-million-token context window, implying its current lead in AI context management over OpenAI.