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Google launch its much - anticipate new flagship AI modelling , Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental , on Wednesday . The announcement was part of a serial publication of other AI model releases . The company is also making its “ reasoning ’ model , Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking , useable in the Gemini app .
Notably , Google is release these AI models as the tech worldremains fixated on cheaper AI reasoning model offered by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek . DeepSeek ’s model match or surpass the performance of leading AI modelling offered by American tech company . At the same time , businesses can access DeepSeek ’s role model through the company ’s API for a relative steal .
Google and DeepSeekboth releasedAI reasoning models in December , butDeepSeek ’s R1got a lot more attention . Now , Google may be trying to put its Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking exemplar in front of more eyes through its democratic Gemini app .
As for Gemini 2.0 Pro , the successor to theGemini 1.5 Pro modelGoogle launched last February , Google says that it is now the leading model in its Gemini AI good example family .
Specifically , the new Gemini Pro model excels at coding and palm complex prompts , per Google , and it come with “ effective understanding and abstract thought of cosmos cognition ” than any of the company ’s previous models . Gemini 2.0 Pro can call shaft like Google Search , and execute codification on behalf of users .
Gemini 2.0 Pro ’s context window is 2 million tokens , meaning it can process about 1.5 million word in one go . Expressed another room , Google ’s raw AI modelling could ingest all seven book in the Harry Potter serial publication in a single command prompt and still have about 400,000 words left over .
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Google is also making itsGemini 2.0 Flash modelgenerally available on Wednesday . This model was announced in December and is now useable to all users of the Gemini app .
Lastly , maybe to rival the upheaval surrounding DeepSeek ’s models , Google is introducing a young , more cost - effective AI model , Gemini 2.0 Flash - Lite . The company says this model outperforms its Gemini 1.5 Flash model , but runs at the same price and speed .
