rebrands

Samsung has an app called “Game Launcher” on its phones and a “Gaming Hub” on its smart displays (everything from smart TVs to projectors). This is a bit confusing since the two are basically the same app – and now they will have the same name. Samsung announced that it is rebranding the Launcher to Gaming Hub. Nothing will change but the shortcut used to launch the app. The Game Launcher is being rebranded to Gaming Hub The Gaming Hub was first introduced in 2022 and allows you to connect a wireless controller to…

Danish startup Whistleblower Software is rebranding as Formalize as it expands into the broader compliance software sphere — and it has raised a fresh €15 million ($16 million) to fund the expansion. The announcement comes as the compliance software market has exploded, due in large part to growing regulatory pressure — and investors have taken note. Private equity giant Thoma Bravo took German compliance and investor relations software company EQS Group  private in a $435 million deal last…

When it comes to doing business — not startups but that other kind of business for which you have a whole separate room in your house — we need to talk about wipes. Wet wipes are great for your tush, but awful for the environment. It turns out not everyone is fond of dry wiping, but while bidets and smart toilets are on the uptick, they’re typically pretty expensive. For a few years, the startup Fohm had a solution: a specially formulated soap that can be dispensed onto toilet paper, turning…

Google on Thursday introduced a free artificial intelligence app that will enable people to rely on technology instead of their own brains to write, interpret what they're reading and deal with a variety of other task in their lives.With the advent of the Gemini app, named after an AI project unveiled late last year, Google will cast aside the Bard chatbot that it introduced a year ago in an effort to catch up with ChatGPT, the chatbot unleashed by the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI in late 2022. Google is immediately…

Just as Microsoft renamed Bing Chat to to unify its generative AI branding, Google is doing the same thing with Bard and Duet AI. The services , after . The name change . Google has also debuted a dedicated Gemini Android app alongside a paid version of the chatbot that has more enhanced capabilities."Bard has been the best way for people to directly experience our most capable models," Google CEO Sundar Pichai . "To reflect the advanced tech at its core, Bard will now simply be called Gemini. It’s available in 40…

A year ago to the day Google announced Bard – its AI-powered ChatGPT rival. Bard was powered by the LaMDA model, but Google switched to Gemini in December. Now the service will adopt the name of the model that powers it. Goodbye, Bard. Hello, Gemini. Gemini is now powered by the Gemini Pro 1.0 model. It is available in over 230 countries and knows over 40 languages. This is available through a web interface – here’s the link – but you can also use the new Gemini app. It’s a chat bot and you can talk to it over text or…

When OpenAI’s ChatGPT opened a new era in tech, the industry’s former AI champ, Google, responded by reorganizing its labs and launching a profusion of sometimes overlapping AI services. This included the Bard chatbot, workplace helper Duet AI, and a chatbot-style version of search.Now Google is consolidating many of its generative AI products under the banner of its latest AI model Gemini—and taking direct aim at OpenAI’s subscription service ChatGPT Plus.Google announced today that Bard, its experimental chatbot…

Now, with the rebranding exercise, the chatbot's name reflects the LLM that powers it -- and that dual use of the Gemini brand has the potential to cause confusion. It looks like Google is taking a page out of Microsoft's book, which rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot, and that chatbot now comes in multiple flavors. Building on the rebrand, Google is rolling out a new Gemini app for Android next week that not only gives users a way to more easily access Bard on mobile for on-the-go queries but also provides an improved…

Bing Chat has a new name as of today – Copilot. It now shares the same brand name as multiple other Microsoft AI products. R.I.P. Bing Chat. Bing Chat, part of the new Bing that was powered by ChatGPT for search, launched Feb. 7. Bing Chat has handled more than 1 billion prompts and queries since it launched, Microsoft Bing said in a blog post. Copilot + Search. Bing is no longer “your AI-powered copilot for the web.” However, Microsoft Bing will still provide a combined Search and chat experience. It will just…

Microsoft is rebranding Bing Chat and is now simply calling it "Copilot," giving its generative AI assistant a consistent identity across its products. Similarly, Bing Chat Enterprise will be known "Copilot Pro," and it will be generally available starting on December 1. It will still be free for specific Microsoft 365 licenses, which will include F3 accounts for frontline workers, though the $5-a-month standalone subscription will be available that day, as well.The Copilot Pro is based on OpenAI's latest models, GPT-4…