Google on Wednesday released a suite of its most powerful and capable AI models, Geminin 2.0, to everyone as part of the search engine giant’s broader strategy this year. The strategy entails “investing heavily into AI Agents, as the race for AI continues to gain traction among tech giants and startups in the sector. Other tech giants like Amazon, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI have also expressed their goals of also building agentic AI. Google released three products under the 2.0 suite Late last year, Google granted access to developers and some trusted testers while it also wrapped some features into its products. However, according to the company, this is a “general release.” Now, under this program, the suite of models includes 2.0 Flash, which is said to be a “workhorse model, optimal for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale.” Also included in that suite is the 2.0 Pro Experimental for coding performance as well as the 2.0 Flash Lite, which Google dubs its “most cost-effective model yet.” “Today we’re making te updated Gemini 2.0 Flash generally available via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Developers can now build production applications with 2.0 Flash,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, CTO, Google DeepMind wrote in blog post. “We’re also releasing an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Pro, our best model yet for coding performance and complex prompts. It is available in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and in the Gemini app for Gemini Advanced users.” Kavukcuoglu. According to a CNBC article , the cost of Gemini Flash to developers is 10 cents per million tokens for text, image and video inputs, while Flash Lite costs 0.75 of a cent for the same. Google consolidating its position on the market Google’s initiative is reportedly part of efforts to stay ahead in the industry as the race for AI supremacy is escalating to another level among the tech giants and startups. Peers, Amazon, Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI have also revealed their intentions to move into agentic AI, or models capable of handling complex tasks on behalf of users. As for Google, the tech giant has been busy for some time now to stay ahead of the competition. The company has over the past year been working towards more agentic models in line with obtaining trends. “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 . Google added that Gemini 2.0 has “new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and native tool use.” Additionally, the family of models “will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.” This comes as there has been intense competition with the Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic being a key contender in the race to build AI agents. In October last year, Anthropic indicated its AI agents could use computers the same way humans do to tackle tasks. According to Anthropic’s chief science officer Jared Kaplan, the tool can “use computers basically the same way that we do.” Competitors OpenAI recently released a similar feature known as Operator to automate tasks such as planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations, and ordering groceries. The ChatGPT make described this as “an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you.” Earlier in the week, OpenAI also unveiled Deep Research which allows an AI agent to compile complex research reports as well as analyze questions and topics as per user’s choice, while Google launched a similar tool with a similar name. Cryptopolitan Academy: How to Write a Web3 Resume That Lands Interviews - FREE Cheat Sheet
