Google rolling out Gemini 2.0

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Google launches upgraded AI model

Google debuted a new version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that it said is twice as fast as its previous version and will power virtual agents that assist users.

The new model, Gemini 2.0, can generate images and audio across languages, and can assist during Google searches and coding projects, the company said Wednesday.
 
Google Gemini 2.0 announced with multimodal image and audio output, agentic AI features

Google unveiled Gemini 2.0 – the latest generation of its AI model, which now supports image and audio output and tool integration for the “agentic era”. Agentic AI models represent AI systems that can independently accomplish tasks with adaptive decision-making. Think automating tasks like shopping or scheduling an appointment from a prompt.

Gemini 2.0 will feature multiple agents that can help you in all sorts of fields, from providing real-time suggestions in games like Clash of Clans to picking out a gift and adding it to your shopping cart based on a prompt.

Like other AI agents, the ones in Gemini 2.0 feature goal-oriented behavior. They can create a task-based list of steps and accomplish them autonomously. Agents in Gemini 2.0 include Project Astra, designed as a universal AI assistant for Android phones and with multimodal support and integration of Google Search, Lens and Maps.



 
Gemini performs very poorly compared to peers, it struggles with simple context in following instructions based on previous output. They dropped the ball early on this one.
 
Gemini performs very poorly compared to peers, it struggles with simple context in following instructions based on previous output. They dropped the ball early on this one.
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Chatbot Arena is an open platform for crowd-sourced AI benchmarking. Over the past two years, OpenAI's models have remained at the top in most AI benchmarks. In some categories, Google's Gemini models and Anthropic's Claude models have posted better results than OpenAI's models, but overall, OpenAI's models were untouched.

Today, Chatbot Arena revealed a new experimental model from Google called Gemini-Exp-1114. This new Gemini (Exp 1114) model was tested with over 6,000 community votes over the past week, and it now ranks joint No. 1 along with OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o-latest (2024-09-03). Compared to the last Gemini model, the overall Arena score increased from 1301 to 1344. It is important to note that this new model's score even beats OpenAI's o1-preview model.
 
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