Gemini 2.0 Pro

The Gemini 2.0 Pro beta is available for Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app for Gemini Advanced users. The company says it’s “the best model for programming and complex commands.”

Gemini 2.0 Flash

The updated version is now available via the Gemini API on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, allowing developers to produce applications with the new, lighter, more efficient platform, as DeepSeek has just made other AI giants wary.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

To counter Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, Google also offers Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite as a less expensive alternative. This version is available for developers on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. By comparison, all versions of DeepSeek’s AI are still free.

2.0 Pro and Flash Thinking Experimental

Gemini app users will experience Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental - a popular AI model that is topping the charts on Chatbot Arena.

This version is special thanks to the ability to parse user requests into multiple steps, helping to provide better responses to complex prompts.

For users who want a more powerful model, the search giant offers the Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental model with Gemini Advanced, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI subscriptions.

Flash Thinking can interact with other Google apps like Maps, YouTube, and Search.

Late last month, the Samsung Galaxy S25 series became the first phones to feature Google's Project Astra, a feature that lets users point at objects with their phone's camera and feed contextual data to AI.

The company also launched the Daily Listen feature, which creates audio summaries of news updates based on Search and Explore activity.

For Google, this is a series of quick moves in the context of DeepSeek emerging as a formidable competitor, when it can develop AI models with performance equivalent to Western ones at a fraction of the cost.

(According to Yahoo Tech, Google)

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