American tech company Google has released Gemini 2.0, the latest version of the company’s flagship AI model. Gemini 2.0 is reported to be Google’s strongest AI model. It is set to power various AI agents that can autonomously perform tasks such as online shopping, browsing, and gaming.
“Today we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and native tool use, it will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant”, said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google.
With Gemini 2.0 Google is entering what it refers to as the “era of AI agents”. According to Demis Hassabi, CEO of Google DeepMind, “Gemini 2.0 Flash’s native user interface action-capabilities, along with other improvements, all work in concert to enable a new class of agentic experiences”.
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Gemini 2.0 Highlights
Google released a blog post that highlights Gemini 2.0’s enhanced capabilities. Gemini 2.0 outperforms older models such as Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Pro in several key benchmarks. This new model can support both multimodal inputs and multimodal outputs.
Additionally, Google is implementing Gemini 2.0 into several of its products. This includes Project Mariner, an experimental Chrome extension. This AI agent can browse the internet and complete online tasks (such as shopping) for the user. There is also Jules, an AI agent that can help programmers with debugging codes. Gemini 2.0 is also set to help gamers by generating strategies in real-time conversations. It should be noted that most of these agents are still in the development stage and are accessible to select users only.
Currently, an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash is available to all Gemini users. Users can also access a chat-optimized version of Gemini 2.0 Flash on desktop and mobile web. This will be made available to Gemini App users next year. Google is also testing Gemini 2.0 in AI Overviews with plans of widespread rollouts early next year.
