Google launched Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model suite to date, on Wednesday, making it available to everyone.
In December, the company had granted access to developers and trusted testers while also integrating some features into Google products.
The suite of models includes 2.0 Flash, described as a “workhorse model” ideal for handling high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale. It also features 2.0 Pro Experimental, optimized for coding performance, and 2.0 Flash-Lite, which Google claims to be its “most cost-efficient model yet.”
Gemini Flash charges developers 10 cents per million tokens for text, image, and video inputs, while its more affordable counterpart, Flash-Lite, costs just 0.75 cents for the same. Tokens refer to the individual units of data that the model processes.
The ongoing releases are part of Google’s broader strategy to heavily invest in AI agents, as the competition in the AI arms race intensifies among both tech giants and startups.
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are also advancing toward agentic AI, which refers to models capable of completing complex, multistep tasks on behalf of the user, eliminating the need for users to guide them through each individual step.
“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 wrote in a December blog post.
It also highlighted that Gemini 2.0 features “new advances in multimodality, such as native image and audio output, as well as native tool use,” and that this family of models “will enable the creation of new AI agents, bringing us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.”
OpenAI recently introduced a similar feature called Operator, designed to automate tasks like planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations, and ordering groceries. The Microsoft-backed startup described Operator as “an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you.”
