
Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI mannequin, Gemini 2.0 Professional Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was a part of a sequence of different AI mannequin releases. The corporate can be making its “reasoning’ mannequin, Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering, obtainable within the Gemini app.
Notably, Google is releasing these AI fashions because the tech world remains fixated on cheaper AI reasoning models offered by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. DeepSeek’s fashions match or surpass the efficiency of main AI fashions supplied by American tech corporations. On the similar time, companies can entry DeepSeek’s fashions via the corporate’s API for a relative steal.
Google and DeepSeek both released AI reasoning fashions in December, however DeepSeek’s R1 obtained much more consideration. Now, Google could also be attempting to place its Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering mannequin in entrance of extra eyes via its common Gemini app.
As for Gemini 2.0 Professional, the successor to the Gemini 1.5 Pro model Google launched final February, Google says that it’s now the main mannequin in its Gemini AI mannequin household.
Google accidentally announced the Gemini 2.0 Professional mannequin’s launch within the Gemini app’s changelog roughly every week in the past. However this time, it’s for actual. The corporate is releasing an experimental model of the mannequin on Wednesday in its AI improvement platforms, Vertex AI and Google AI Studio. Gemini 2.0 Professional can even be obtainable to subscribers to Gemini Superior within the Gemini app.
Particularly, the brand new Gemini Professional mannequin excels at coding and dealing with complicated prompts, per Google, and it comes with “higher understanding and reasoning of world information” than any of the corporate’s earlier fashions. Gemini 2.0 Professional can name instruments like Google Search, and execute code on behalf of customers.
Gemini 2.0 Professional’s context window is 2 million tokens, that means it may possibly course of about 1.5 million phrases in a single go. Expressed one other means, Google’s latest AI mannequin might ingest all seven books within the Harry Potter sequence in a single immediate and nonetheless have about 400,000 phrases left over.
Google can be making its Gemini 2.0 Flash model typically obtainable on Wednesday. This mannequin was introduced in December and is now obtainable to all customers of the Gemini app.
Lastly, presumably to rival the joy surrounding DeepSeek’s fashions, Google is introducing a brand new, extra cost-efficient AI mannequin, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite. The corporate says this mannequin outperforms its Gemini 1.5 Flash mannequin, however runs on the similar worth and velocity.