The Gemini AI is owned by Google, developed through its subsidiary Google DeepMind. It was announced as a family of multimodal large language models (LLMs) and is positioned as a successor to Google's earlier models like LaMDA and PaLM 2. The development was led by Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, with significant contributions from Google co-founder Sergey Brin and engineers from Google Brain and DeepMind. Gemini powers Google's AI chatbot services, including Bard, and is integrated into multiple Google products and services. It represents Google's major AI research and development effort in large-scale multimodal AI technology.