Google launches Gemini 2.0 Pro, Flash-Lite and connects reasoning model Flash Thinking to YouTube, Maps and Search!

Google’s Gemini series of AI large language models (LLMs) started off rough nearly a year ago with some embarrassing incidents of image generation gone awry, but has steadily improved, and the company appears to be intent on making its second generation effort — Gemini 2.0 — the biggest and best yet for consumers and enterprises.

Today, the company announced the general release of Gemini 2.0 Flash, the introduction of Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Pro.

These models, designed to support developers and businesses, are now accessible through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, with Flash-Lite in public preview and Pro available for early testing.

“All of these models will feature multimodal input with text output on release, with more modalities ready for general availability in the coming months,” wrote Koray Kavukcuoglu, chief technology officer of Google DeepMind ...