Google One surpasses 100 million subscribers،
These days we all take tons of photos, don't we? Think about how many messages you have on your phone alone. With all these photos, having enough storage space is extremely important. And it seems that more and more people are realizing this because they're choosing to purchase additional storage (plus, there's a strong push from big tech companies to move away from relying solely on free services). Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared big news: 100 million people have signed up for Google One, an all-in-one subscription service that gives you more storage for free services like Gmail, Photos, and Drive, as well as some additional features.
We have just passed 100 million Google One subscribers! Looking forward to continuing this momentum with our new AI Premium plan (launched yesterday) offering AI features like Gemini Advanced, as well as Gemini in Gmail, Docs and more to come. https://t.co/m7zAVop7P6pic.twitter.com/sMdwJeq0iU
– Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) February 9, 2024
Reaching this milestone shows that Google is encouraging people to abandon their free plans. One way to do this could be to no longer offer unlimited storage for photos in Google Drive. Google's YouTube Premium also recently hit the 100 million subscriber club, thanks to the removal of ads and nice extras like music and high-quality streaming. Oh, and let's not forget that at the same time, YouTube made changes to crack down on ad blockers.
Google hinted it would take this step in its earnings report last month. The tech giant mentioned this again when launching the new AI Premium plan just a few days ago.
The new AI plan looks a lot like the current $100 per year Google One Premium plan. Both plans give you 2TB of storage and extras like VPN and Dark Web monitoring. But here's the catch: the new AI plan is twice as expensive. What do you get for the extra dollars? Well, you get an improved version of Gemini. Plus, you'll soon be able to use new AI features in services like Gmail and Docs.
According to Google, Gemini's Ultra 1.0 LLM model brings many new advances to AI. It must be extremely efficient at processing information, understanding complex instructions and programs, solving problems innovatively, and generating high-quality code in different programming languages. Google has also rolled out the Gemini app for Android users.
