Just over a year after version 1.0, Google today announced Gemini 2.0 as its “new AI model for the agentic era.”

CEO Sundar Pichai summarizes it as such: “If Gemini 1.0 was about organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it much more useful.” For Google, agents are systems that get something done on your behalf by being able to reason, plan, and have memory. 

The first model available is Gemini 2.0 Flash, which notably “outperforms 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks” — across code, factuality, math, reasoning, and more — at twice the speed.

It supports multimodal output like “natively generated images mixed with text” for “conversational, multi-turn editing,” and multilingual audio that developers can customize (voices, languages, and accents). Finally, it can natively call tools like Google Search (for more factual answers) and code execution.

An experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash is available today in AI Studio and Vertex AI for developers. It will enter GA (general availability) in January, with more model sizes coming. Google also has a new Multimodal Live API for “real-time audio, video-streaming input” from cameras or screens.

For end users in the Gemini app, Google says the new model results in an “even more helpful Gemini assistant.” Both Gemini and Gemini Advanced users will be able to use a chat-optimized version of 2.0 Flash experimental in gemini.google.com this week. Go to the model dropdown menu in the top-left corner. Access is “soon” coming to the mobile app.

Google is also beginning to test Gemini 2.0 in Search’s AI Overviews. This will allow the generated response to answer “more complex topics and multi-step questions, including advanced math equations, multimodal queries and coding.” It will be “more broadly” available early next year. 

Finally, Gemini 2.0 will be coming to more Google products early next year.