What you might want to know
- Gemini 2.0 Flash is rolling out now without spending a dime customers within the Gemini app.
- It replaces Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental, which was as soon as solely for subscribers, and can finally substitute Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Professional.
- Google One AI Premium subscribers nonetheless get a bigger context window and unique options.
Google is now making Gemini 2.0 Flash out there without spending a dime customers within the Gemini app, changing the placeholder Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental mannequin, and finally older Gemini fashions. Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Professional will stick round for “the subsequent few weeks” so customers can proceed their conversations. After that, Gemini 2.0 fashions — beginning with Gemini 2.0 Flash will substitute them.
Beforehand, the Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental mannequin was unique to Gemini Superior subscribers within the Gemini app. Google One AI Premium members nonetheless get unique perks, like a one-million token context window (good for as much as 1,500 pages of file uploads), Deep Analysis, Gems, and extra. Free customers get entry to Gemini 2.0 Flash conversations and picture uploads.
Google describes the Gemini 2.0 Flash mannequin as providing “quick responses and stronger efficiency throughout quite a few key benchmarks, offering on a regular basis assist with duties like brainstorming, studying or writing.” Comparatively, the Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental mannequin it replaces was described as “an early preview and won’t work as anticipated.”
Presumably, the long run Gemini lineup will embody Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 1.5 Professional with Deep Analysis, and Gemini 2.0 Experimental Superior — with the latter two fashions being paid choices for Gemini Superior customers. All customers now get improved Imagen 3 picture technology, which “delivers richer particulars and textures” and “follows your directions with higher accuracy,” based on Google.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental first turned out there for Gemini app beta testers final month. It is unclear after we may see Gemini 2.0 Experimental Superior, or different 2.0 fashions, develop into steady. The steady Gemini 2.0 Flash mannequin is already out there on the Gemini net consumer and is rolling out now within the Gemini app, with free entry out there for the primary time.
