Gemini 2.0 is here, as Google continues push towards agentic AI

Date:
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Description:
Gemini 2.0, a staggering upgrade over 1.5, can now plan, reason and take actions more effectively (with your guidance).

FULL STORY ======================================================================Google says Gemini 2.0 Flash is twice as fast as Gemini 1.5 Pro The new model is
much closer to agentic AI than 1.5 ever was CEO Sundar Pichai says 2.0 will help us to understand information better

Google has announced its latest family of AI models Gemini 2.0 with outlandish promises such as the ability to outperform previous models while being twice as fast.

Launching in the same month as OpenAIs 12 Days of OpenAI announcements and
new Apple Intelligence features in non-US markets, developers can now get their hands on the Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental model through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Gemini 2.0 Flash can now generate text, images and audio in a single API
call, helping to streamline AI content generation and boosting productivity. Gemini 2.0 Flash now available to developers

Gemini 2.0 can also execute searches, run rode and interact with third-party applications to expand its usefulness across more areas as a single tool to complete the job, rather than users having to jump between the AI chatbot and other applications.

Over the last year, we have been investing in developing more agentic models, meaning they can understand more about the world around you, think multiple steps ahead, and take action on your behalf, with your supervision," Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained.

Apart from the direct improvements we can see and benefit from now, Gemini
2.0 also marks a step closer to agentic AI models capable of planning, reasoning and taking actions with user guidance (and that bits important).

For example, Google has used Gemini 2.0 to power its experimental code agent, Jules, which integrates directly into GitHub workflows despite that platforms Microsoft ownership (and therefore its OpenAI, GPT affiliation).

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu explained that Jules can tackle an issue, develop a plan and execute it.

They added that the company is building numerous safeguards to protect users from potential harm, including evaluating and training the model further and introducing mitigations against users unintentionally sharing sensitive information.

Googles universal AI assistant, Project Astra, is also able to remember more of its previous conversations and work with more tools, like Google Search, Lens and Maps. Project Astra also sees improved latency, allowing it to understand human language at about the latency of human conversation.

Pichai added: If Gemini 1.0 was about organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it much more useful. You might also like Gemini 2.0 doubles the speed of the AI assistant and could supercharge search These are the best AI writers Get a boost from the best productivity apps



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