Google has introduced the launch of the most recent mannequin within the Gemini household, in addition to a brand new coding agent for builders referred to as Jules.
Gemini is available in two completely different mannequin variants, with Flash balancing efficiency with velocity and Professional optimizing for efficiency. The most recent mannequin, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is twice as quick as Gemini 1.5 Professional (first previewed in February 2024) whereas additionally attaining stronger efficiency.
Particularly, it options improved multimodal, textual content, code, video, spatial understanding, and reasoning efficiency throughout a number of benchmarks.
Gemini 2.0 Flash can even characteristic new output modalities of textual content, pictures, and audio, whereas Gemini 1.5 Flash may solely output textual content. Picture and audio output is at the moment nonetheless listed as “coming quickly” on the Gemini web site, however Google says that rollout is anticipated subsequent yr.
Audio output is multilingual and might be spoken in eight completely different voices, with management over the language and accent. Picture output allows customers to construct on earlier outputs to refine generated pictures precisely as envisioned. In a demo Google shared, a consumer takes benefit of this to ask Gemini to take an image of a automobile and remodel the picture to make the automobile a convertible.
Gemini 2.0 Flash may also use instruments, comparable to Google Search, and may make the most of third-party features. “A number of searches might be run in parallel resulting in improved data retrieval by discovering extra related info from a number of sources concurrently and mixing them for accuracy,” Shrestha Basu Mallick, group product supervisor for the Gemini API, and Kathy Korevec, director of product for Google Labs, wrote in a weblog submit.
Lastly, the mannequin may also soak up streaming inputs of audio and video to allow the event of real-time, multimodal functions.
To assist builders get began with Gemini 2.0 Flash, Google is releasing three starter app experiences in Google AI Studio for spatial understanding, video evaluation, and Google Maps exploration.
Gemini 2.0 Flash is at the moment in an experimental state, with normal availability anticipated early in 2025.
Introducing Jules, an AI-powered coding agent
The corporate additionally unveiled a brand new coding agent, Jules, that may deal with Python and JavaScript coding duties, comparable to fixing bugs.
Jules creates multi-step plans for addressing points, can modify a number of recordsdata without delay, and may put together pull requests.
Jules is offered to a particular group of testers now and will probably be rolled out extra broadly early subsequent yr.
