Google opens Gemini 2.0, its most powerful AI model, for all

Google On Wednesday, Gemini 2.0 – its “most talented” artificial intelligence model -SUITE still released for everyone.

In December, the company gave access to developers and trusted testers as well as wrapping some features in Google products, but this is a “general release” according to Google.

Suit with models includes 2.0 flash, which is invoiced as a “work horse model, optimal for high volumes, high-frequency tasks in scale”, as well as 2.0 pro-experimental for coding performance and 2.0 flash-lite, which the company calls its “most cost -effective model yet. ”

Gemini Flash costs developers 10 cents per day. Million tokens for text, image and video inputs, while Flash-Lite, its more cost-effective version, costs 0.75 of one cent for the same. Tokens refers to each unit unit that the model processes.

The continued releases are part of a wider strategy for Google to invest heavily in AI agents as the AI ​​weapon races warm up among technical giants and startups.

MetaAmazon, MicrosoftOpenai and Anthropic also move against agent AI or models that can perform complex multistep tasks on a user’s behalf, rather than a user to go through each step.

“Over the past year we have invested in developing more agent models, which means they can understand more about the world around you, think more steps ahead and intervene on your behalf with your supervision,” Google wrote in a December December Blog postsadds that Gemini 2.0 has “new progress in multimodality – such as native image and audio output – and native tool use” and that the models “will allow us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.”

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI start-up founded by Ex-Oopenai Research leaders, is a key competitor in the course of developing AI agents. In October, Anthropic said its AI agents were able to use computers as humans to perform complex tasks. Anthropics Computer Use allows its technology to interpret what’s on a computer screen, select buttons, enter text, navigate websites and perform tasks through any software and real-time internal browsing, says startup.

The tool can “use computers in the same way we do,” Jared Kaplan, Anthropics Chief Science Officer, told CNBC in an interview at that time. He said it can perform tasks with “tens of thousands or even hundreds of steps.”

Openai released a similar feature, recently called operator who automates tasks, such as planning holidays, fills out forms, makes restaurant reservations and order groceries. The Microsoft-backed startup described the operator as “an agent who can go to the Internet to perform tasks for you.”

Earlier this week, the Openai Deep Research introduced, which allows an AI agent to prepare complex research reports and analyze questions and topics of the user’s choice. Google in December launched a similar tool of the same name – Deep Research – which acts as a “research assistant, explored complex topics and prepared reports on your behalf.”

CNBC only reported in December that Google would introduce more AI features early in 2025.

“In the story you don’t always have to be first, but you have to do well and really be the best in class as a product,” CEO Sundar Pichai said at a strategy meeting at the time. “I think that’s what 2025 is all about.”