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Google opens its most powerful AI models to everyone, the next stage in its virtual agent push


The suite of agentic Gemini 2.0 models includes 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Pro Experimental and 2.0 Flash-Lite.

"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," Google wrote in a December blog post, adding that Gemini 2.0 has "new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and native tool use," and that the family of models "will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant." OpenAI released a similar feature recently called Operator that will automate tasks such as planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have also expressed their goal of building agentic AI, or models that can complete complex multistep tasks on a user's behalf.

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