Recently, Google's Gemini AI system has made remarkable progress in a key technology: the ability to process multiple visual streams simultaneously, including real-time videos and static images. This achievement was not announced through Google's mainstream platforms but rather through an experimental app called "AnyChat".
Gemini's capability is attributed to its advanced neural network architecture, enabling AnyChat to leverage this structure to handle multiple visual inputs without compromising performance. Although Gemini's API already supports this functionality, Google's official applications have yet to make this feature available to end users.
In contrast, many other AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, face resource limitations when processing a single visual stream. For instance, ChatGPT cannot upload and process images while handling video streams. Gemini, showcased through AnyChat, has overcome this limitation with its multi-stream processing capabilities.
AnyChat achieved this breakthrough by obtaining special permissions from the Gemini API, which grants access to functionalities not yet available on Google's official platforms. These permissions allowed AnyChat to optimize Gemini's attention mechanism, enabling it to track and analyze multiple visual inputs concurrently while maintaining coherent conversations.
The success of AnyChat is no accident; its developers worked closely with Gemini's technical architecture to expand its capabilities. Through this experimental approach, AnyChat managed to process both live video and static images simultaneously, breaking down the "single-stream barrier".
This new capability of Gemini holds broad application prospects. In healthcare, professionals can show AI both real-time symptoms and historical diagnostic scans of patients for comprehensive analysis. Engineers can compare live equipment performance with technical drawings and receive instant feedback. Quality control teams can achieve unprecedented accuracy and efficiency by comparing production line outputs with reference standards.
In education, students can use Gemini to analyze textbooks in real time while solving practical problems, gaining contextual support that bridges static and dynamic learning environments. Artists and designers can display multiple visual inputs simultaneously, opening up new channels for creative collaboration and feedback.
Currently, AnyChat remains an experimental developer platform, but its success demonstrates that multi-stream AI vision is no longer a distant dream but a reality ready for widespread adoption.
The emergence of AnyChat raises some questions. Why wasn't this functionality included in the official launch of Gemini? Is it due to oversight, intentional resource allocation, or does it suggest that smaller, more agile developers are driving the next wave of innovation?
As the AI race accelerates, AnyChat's experience shows that significant advancements may not always come from large research labs at tech giants but from independent developers who see the potential in existing technologies and dare to push them further.
With its proven ability to handle multi-streams, Gemini's groundbreaking architecture lays the foundation for a new generation of AI applications. Whether Google will incorporate this feature into its official platform remains uncertain. However, one thing is clear: the gap between what AI can do and what is officially provided is now even more intriguing.
