Google unveiled Gemini 2.0 on Wednesday, its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model to date.
Advanced AI model
“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,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said while launching Gemini 2.0.
“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,” he added.
The Gemini 2.0 is preceded by the Gemini 1.0, unveiled in December 2023, and the Gemini 1.5.
Google’s latest AI model was born from its investments in developing newer agentic models, capable of understanding more about the human world, thinking several steps forward, and taking decisions and actions on a user’s behalf under their supervision.
The Gemini 2.0 is currently being given to developers and trusted testers for use, said the US-based tech giant.
It is also on the fast track to getting integrated into Google’s products, starting with its generative AI chatbot Gemni and its widely-used search engine product Search.
Google added that it will be unveiling a new feature, Deep Research, which employs highly progressed reasoning and long-context capacities to fulfill the duties of a research assistant.
Deep Research will be capable of studying complicated subject matters and putting together reports on a user’s behalf. It was made accessible to users via Gemini Advanced on Wednesday, said Pichai in his statement.
The company has plans to introduce Gemini 2.0’s sophisticated reasoning abilities to its AI Overviews, which now reach one billion people. This will help Google’s AI Overviews to handle more advanced topics and multi-step queries, such as complex math equations, multimodal questions, and coding.
It has already begun limit testing Gemini’s incorporation into AI Overviews this week and will be unraveling it at a much larger scale during the start of 2025, while working to increase geographical and lingual access to AI Overviews throughout the rest of the coming year.
Share price
Shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, rose 0.8% $196.97 in after-hours trading on December 11, 2024, giving it a market capitalization of $2.4 trillion.
Net worths
Its co-founder and board member Larry Page ranks sixth on Forbes’ The World’s Real-Time Billionaires list with a net worth of $160.8 billion as of December 12, 2024. Also, cofounder Sergey Brin ranks seventh with a net worth of $153.5 billion as of the same day. Alphabet ranks 10th on Forbes’ 2024 Global 2000 list.
This story was updated at 9:40 am AST Thursday.
