A message from Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet:
The Secret Weapon Behind Tomorrow’s Smart Solutions
Information is key to human advancement. For over 26 years, we’ve committed to our mission of organizing the world’s information to make it accessible and useful. This drives our ongoing efforts to advance AI, ensuring that information can be managed and accessed in ways that are truly beneficial to everyone.
Our vision inspired the launch of Gemini 1.0 last December. As the first model designed to be inherently multimodal, Gemini 1.0 and its successor, 1.5, have made significant strides in understanding and processing information across various formats like text, video, images, audio, and code.
Today, millions of developers are using Gemini to innovate and rethink all our products, including our seven products with over 2 billion users, and to develop new ones. NotebookLM exemplifies the potential of multimodality and extensive contextual understanding, earning widespread affection.
Over the past year, we’ve focused on creating more proactive models that can better comprehend the world around you, anticipate future steps, and act on your behalf under your guidance.
We’re thrilled to introduce Gemini 2.0, marking a new era of models designed for this proactive approach. With advancements in multimodality, such as native image and audio output, and built-in tool usage, it paves the way for developing AI agents that align with our vision of a universal assistant.
Today, we’re making 2.0 available to developers and trusted testers. We’re swiftly integrating it into our products, starting with Gemini and Search. From today, all Gemini users can access our Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental model. We’ve also launched a new feature, Deep Research, which leverages advanced reasoning and comprehensive context to function as a research assistant, exploring complex subjects and compiling reports for you. It’s now available in Gemini Advanced.
Search has been the most transformed product by AI. Our AI Overviews now serve 1 billion users, enabling them to ask new types of questions, making it one of our most popular Search features. As the next step, we’re enhancing AI Overviews with the advanced reasoning of Gemini 2.0 to address more complex topics and multi-step inquiries, including advanced math problems, multimodal questions, and coding. We’ve begun limited testing this week, with a broader rollout planned for early next year. We’ll also expand AI Overviews to more countries and languages in the coming year.
The advancements of 2.0 are supported by our decade-long investment in a unique full-stack approach to AI innovation. It’s built on custom hardware like Trillium, our sixth-generation TPUs. These TPUs powered all of Gemini 2.0’s training and inference, and today, Trillium is available to customers for their projects.
If Gemini 1.0 focused on organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it significantly more practical. I’m excited to see what this new era will bring.
– Sundar
