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 pace and Professional optimizing for efficiency. The latest 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 will even function new output modalities of textual content, pictures, and audio, whereas Gemini 1.5 Flash might solely output textual content. Picture and audio output is presently nonetheless listed as “coming quickly” on the Gemini web site, however Google says that rollout is predicted subsequent yr.
Audio output is multilingual and could 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 person takes benefit of this to ask Gemini to take an image of a automobile and rework the picture to make the automobile a convertible.
Gemini 2.0 Flash may use instruments, comparable to Google Search, and may make the most of third-party capabilities. “A number of searches could be run in parallel resulting in improved info retrieval by discovering extra related details 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 publish.
Lastly, the mannequin may absorb streaming inputs of audio and video to allow the event of real-time, multimodal purposes.
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 presently in an experimental state, with basic 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 information without delay, and may put together pull requests.
Jules is accessible to a particular group of testers now and will probably be rolled out extra broadly early subsequent yr.