Google Gemini 2.0 Makes AI Smarter Than Ever!

Have you watched the Terminator? The movie was ahead of its time or you could say it represented the current AI era long before its arrival. People were already speculating they might have someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger to save their lives from danger. While they might not get a Terminator to fight enemies, they now have personal agents to solve their problems, assist them and make their lives more organised.

Google has unveiled Gemini 2.0 and it is not just an upgrade; you can consider it a revolution.

Take, for example, the capabilities of Gemini 2.0. Ask Gemini 2.0: “Plan a trip to Kedarnath.” Within seconds, the system will provide flight options, book the best hotel room based on your preferences and schedule a cab for you.

Unlike its predecessors, Gemini 2.0 isn’t content to merely answer questions or assist with isolated tasks. This is an “agentic AI,” capable of independent decision-making and adaptive actions. It can analyse situations, anticipate needs and execute tasks autonomously, from managing schedules to handling complex workflows. With its ability to process text, images and audio, it communicates with users in their preferred medium—be it a beautifully rendered infographic, a calming voice, or a concise report.

Gemini 2.0 goes beyond just answering “What” and “Why” questions—it can effortlessly handle the “How” as well. The agentic era has arrived and Gemini 2.0 is set to lead the way.

What is Gemini 2.0?

Gemini 2.0 will feature multiple agents that can assist people across various categories and fields. It will enable Project Astra to support users in the best way possible. Gemini 2.0 will power new kinds of multimodal AI agents, making it a research prototype for a universal AI assistant. It leverages multimodal memory and real-time information capabilities. Project Astra will also switch languages based on the user’s native language, specially designed for Android phones, with multimodal support and integration of Google Search, Lens and Maps.

Gemini 2.0 will feature goal-oriented behaviour, allowing it to create task-based lists of steps and complete them. Another experimental AI agent, Project Mariner, can navigate autonomously within a web browser. Mariner is now available in early preview form for “trusted testers” as a Chrome extension.

The Gemini 2.0 Flash is the very first version of Google’s new AI model. This tool is currently in an experimental (beta) version, featuring improved latency, benchmark performance and enhanced reasoning and understanding in math and coding compared to the first versions of Gemini and Gemini 1.5 models. The new Google AI tool can also generate images natively, powered by Google DeepMind’s Imagen 3 text-to-image model.

This new tool is set to assist travelers in understanding new locations, educators in grasping topics more precisely and employees in completing tasks more efficiently.

The Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental version is available on the web for all users and is coming soon to the mobile Gemini app. Users who want to test it out will need to select the Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental from the dropdown menu.