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 also be making its “reasoning’ mannequin, Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering, out there within the Gemini app.
Notably, Google is releasing these AI fashions because the tech world stays fixated on cheaper AI reasoning fashions supplied by the Chinese language AI startup DeepSeek. DeepSeek’s fashions match or surpass the efficiency of main AI fashions supplied by American tech firms. On the identical time, companies can entry DeepSeek’s fashions by the corporate’s API for a relative steal.
Google and DeepSeek each launched AI reasoning fashions in December, however DeepSeek’s R1 received much more consideration. Now, Google could also be attempting to place its Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering mannequin in entrance of extra eyes by its fashionable Gemini app.
As for Gemini 2.0 Professional, the successor to the Gemini 1.5 Professional mannequin Google launched final February, Google says that it’s now the main mannequin in its Gemini AI mannequin household.
Google by chance introduced the Gemini 2.0 Professional mannequin’s launch within the Gemini app’s changelog roughly per 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 may even be out there 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 data” 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 could possibly course of about 1.5 million phrases in a single go. Expressed one other manner, 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 also be making its Gemini 2.0 Flash mannequin usually out there on Wednesday. This mannequin was introduced in December and is now out there to all customers of the Gemini app.
Lastly, presumably to rival the thrill 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 identical worth and pace.
