Gemini 2.0, a staggering upgrade over 1.5, can now plan, reason and take actions more effectively (with your guidance).

A new version of Google’s flagship AI model shows how the company sees AI transforming personal computing, web search, and perhaps the way people interact with the physical world.

Google is also investing in video games and AI in another way: creating playable virtual worlds on the fly from a prompt image using a “foundation world model” called Genie 2 that it showed off last week. That work seems early, too: Genie 2 can only generate consistent worlds for “up to a minute,” Google says.

Google AI research lab DeepMind says its newly released artificial intelligence model, Gemini 2.0, will be the bedrock used to build more advanced AI agents. An AI agent powered by Gemini 2.0, released Dec.

Developers can experiment with the new Gemini 2.0 Flash model, accessible through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Project Astra, which was shown off at Google I/O earlier this year, is a major leap in Google's AI research from its DeepMind team in London. Like the video from earlier this year