Google said Friday that the company is expanding Gemini’s latest in-depth research mode to 40 more languages.
The company launched In-Depth Research Mode earlier this month, allowing users of the Google One AI premium plan to unlock a sort of AI-powered research assistant. The in-depth feature works with a multi-step approach, from creating a research plan to finding relevant information. Then, based on that information, the tool performs a search again to extract knowledge. After repeating that process several times, create a report.
Languages supported by Gemini include Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Swahili, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thani, Ukrainian. and Urdu.
The challenge for Google is to find reliable sources in a particular language and then summarize them in the native language without altering the grammar.
In a conversation with britcommerce in early December, HyunJeong Choe, director of engineering for the Gemini app, said that while the company trains the model using clean data and trusted sources, Google’s AI overviews in native languages such as Hindi tend to have inaccuracies in the summaries.
“We typically rely on native sources of data and also use Google Search on the back end to inform that information. Additionally, we performed evaluations and data verification on native language data before deploying the model,” Choe said.
“Factuality or obtaining correct information is a well-known research problem for generative AI in general. While the model already has a lot of information in pre-training mode, we are focusing on training the model to use the information in the right way,” Choe said.
Jules Walter, product leader for international markets for the Gemini app, said the company has testing programs to get quality checks from native perspectives. He mentioned that the company generates data to train models. Additionally, local teams also review those data sets.
Earlier this week, britcommerce reported that a contractor company working to improve Gemini by grading responses passed along Google guidelines that said contractors were no longer allowed to skip quick responses, regardless of their experience.
After that report was published, a Google spokesperson said contractors not only grade responses based on content, but also look at style, formatting and other factors.