Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments
Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.
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Discussion
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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If you try nothing else today, give the demo at https://aistudio.google.com/ live a go - it lets you stream video and audio directly to Gemini 2.0 Flash and get audio back, so you can have a real-time audio conversation about what you can see with the model Feels like science fic…
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@sriramk
Sriram Krishnan
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the Gemini 2.0 streaming API is truly magical. See @simonw take here and do play with it yourself https://simonwillison.net/... @demishassabis @sundarpichai
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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Wrote up my initial impressions of the new Google Gemini 2.0 Flash model - it's really good, and the streaming mode (where you can stream video and audio to it and get audio streamed right back) is pure science-fiction https://simonwillison.net/...
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@simonw
Simon Willison
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Gemini 2.0 Flash is now available via their API (multi-modal input and text output only for the moment) - I just released a new llm-gemini plugin version to support the new model llm install -U llm-gemini llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp ‘prompt goes here’
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
Please try Gemini Flash 2.0 streaming live video from your phone while engaged in voice dialog with it. This is a new form of multimodality far beyond their competition at present. …
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@lukaszolejnik
Lukasz Olejnik
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Imagine a future business model when AI are able to know in real time exactly, and describe, what is on the video or camera. It could display contextual or profiled ads based on what is identified. Including political. Including to steer around regulations lawfully. www.wired.…
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@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai
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We're kicking off the start of our Gemini 2.0 era with Gemini 2.0 Flash, which outperforms 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks at 2X speed (see chart below). I'm especially excited to see the fast progress on coding, with more to come.
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@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai
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We're also testing Gemini 2.0's advanced reasoning capabilities in AI Overviews in Search to help answer more complex and multi-step questions, and will roll it out more broadly next year. [image]
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@demishassabis
Demis Hassabis
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Thrilled to kick off the Gemini 2.0 era with Gemini 2.0 Flash, an update to our workhorse model that outperforms even 1.5 Pro at twice the speed. It has really great multilingual skills, and can natively call tools, like Google Search. It's the first release in the Gemini 2.0 [im…
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@geminiapp
@geminiapp
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We're excited to introduce Gemini 2.0 - our most capable AI model yet - with 2.0 Flash Experimental. Starting today, all Gemini users can now try out a chat-optimized version of Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental, with enhanced performance on a number of key benchmarks and speed. [ima…
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@gkaissis
@gkaissis
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Congratulations to my colleagues @GoogleDeepMind and the whole Google team for this milestone! I am humbled to have contributed (if only the tiniest part) to this effort, definitely one of my highlights of the year.
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@levie
Aaron Levie
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AI Agents using browsers and computers is a big deal because you effectively have an API for complete knowledge work. Right now, for AI to execute complex digital work, you have to go through the APIs of a wide array of services. Imagine a workflow where you want to collect
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@snowmaker
Jared Friedman
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This is one of the most promising places to find startup ideas right now.
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@googleaidevs
@googleaidevs
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We just released Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental ⚡ Available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio for testing, it allows developers to build interactive experiences with better performance and multimodal capabilities. https://developers.googleblog.com/ ...
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@officiallogank
Logan Kilpatrick
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Announcing Gemini 2.0 Flash, a new multimodal agentic model (initially experimental), with our best-ever results on capabilities and benchmarks: https://developers.googleblog.com/ ...
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@thomasortk
Thomas Kurian
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Today we introduced Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet. Developers can start building with 2.0 Flash Experimental in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. https://developers.googleblog.com/ ...
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@googledeepmind
@googledeepmind
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Welcome to the world, Gemini 2.0 ✨ our most capable AI model yet. We're first releasing an experimental version of 2.0 Flash ⚡ It has better performance, new multimodal output, @Google tool use - and paves the way for new agentic experiences. 🧵 https://goo.gle/... [video]
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@rakyll
Jaana Dogan
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We are beginning to release Gemini 2.0 models starting with Gemini 2.0 Flash. 2.0 family is outstanding: - Native output modalities like audio & image - Streaming APIs that allow different modalities in & out - Agentic architecture - Capability improvements of all kinds
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@rakyll
Jaana Dogan
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2.0 family has huge focus on tool use and orchestration and also comes with native tools like Google Search. Gemini models are outstanding for multimodality and live streaming APIs finally provides an API surface to demonstrate these capabilities.
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@jeffdean
Jeff Dean
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I'm very proud of the whole Gemini team and everyone else across Google that contributed to all the different announcements today. Thank you for all the hard work, everyone! 🙏 https://blog.google/...
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@officiallogank
Logan Kilpatrick
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We built a brand new experience in Google AI Studio showcasing starter apps for some of the best Gemini 2.0 capabilities: - video understanding - native tool use - spatial understanding This is just the start, much more to come with this new mode soon 👀 [image]
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@googledevs
@googledevs
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Build with Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental. ⚡🧪 With the new Multimodal Live API and native tool use, 2.0 Flash is now available to test through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Vertex AI. Get the details ↓ https://developers.googleblog.com/ ...
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@clmt
Clément
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Very excited to share all the new developer features we shipped for Gemini 2 - Live mode https://aistudio.google.com/ live audio, video and screen sharing! Spatial understanding https://aistudio.google.com/ ... And some more coming soon e.g. native audio/image out. https://develo…
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@kat_kampf
Katherine Kampf
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Huge benchmark progress 🙂 Combined with lots of AI Studio updates as well https://developers.googleblog.com/ ... [image]
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@jeffdean
Jeff Dean
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🎊Gemini 2.0 is here! 🎊 An AI model for the agentic era The blog post is chock full of announcements: Gemini 2.0 Flash Project Astra Project Mariner Developer features for building agents Agents in games and more! Watch the videos in the blog! https://blog.google/...
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@koltregaskes
@koltregaskes
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Gemini 2.0 page says image and audio outputs are “coming soon”: @btibor91 @testingcatalog @legit_rumors @AILeaksAndNews [image]
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@googledeepmind
@googledeepmind
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As we develop these new technologies, we recognize the responsibility it entails - and the many questions AI agents open up for safety and security. ⚠️ That's why we're conducting research on multiple prototypes, working with trusted testers and external experts, and performing […
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@nickadobos
Nick Dobos
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New Google Gemini flash model! 2 features not in the headline & way more interesting Realtime API: AKA Screen recording mode New Jules assistant: Looks kinda like Devin or Github workspace, but they stole the Julius ai name lol [image]
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@google
@google
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Introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet designed for the agentic era. Gemini 2.0 brings enhanced performance, more multimodality, and new native tool use. [image]
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@rowancheung
Rowan Cheung
on x
Breaking: Google just launched Gemini 2.0, Project Astra, and AI agents for gaming & web browsing. I sat down with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to find out: (1:03) Everything launching and available to use today (2:13) The benchmarks/improvements of Gemini 2.0 (3:19) […
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
[Google DeepMind]-Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era