Google Ups Its AI Game With Gemini 2.0 Launch

Experts believe the new model is Google's bid to catch up with Microsoft

- Shouvik Das

Google on Wednesday launched Gemini 2.0, its new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models, that it says is equipped to break down complex queries, burnishing the tool's appeal as a more useful, practical product for businesses to adopt.

"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. Today, we're excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era—Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet," Google and Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Wednesday. "With new advances in multimodality, like native image and audio output, and native tool use, it will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant."