Gemini 2.0 Flash is now Live
Gemini 2.0 Flash is a significant upgrade from Gemini 1.5 Flash, offering improved performance, new features, and enhanced capabilities. Here’s a breakdown of the key differences:
Performance:
- Speed: Gemini 2.0 Flash is twice as fast as Gemini 1.5 Pro while maintaining or even exceeding its performance.2
- Multimodal understanding: It features improved multimodal, text, code, video, spatial understanding, and reasoning performance on key benchmarks.3
- Spatial understanding: Enhanced spatial understanding enables more accurate bounding box generation on small objects in cluttered images, and better object identification and captioning.4
New features:
- Multimodal outputs: Gemini 2.0 Flash can generate integrated responses that include text, audio, and images through a single API call.
- Native audio output: It features native text-to-speech audio output with fine-grained control over what the model says and how it says it, with a choice of 8 high-quality voices and a range of languages and accents.
- Native image output: Gemini 2.0 Flash can natively generate images and supports conversational, multi-turn editing, allowing users to build on previous outputs and refine them. It can output interleaved text and images, making it useful in multimodal content such as recipes.
- Native tool use: Gemini 2.0 has been trained to use tools, a foundational capability for building agentic experiences. It can natively call tools like Google Search and code execution in addition to custom third-party functions via function calling.
Enhanced capabilities:
- Code execution: Gemini 2.0 Flash, equipped with code execution tools, has achieved 51.8% on SWE-bench Verified, which tests agent performance on real-world software engineering tasks.
- Multilingual support: Gemini 2.0 Flash supports multiple languages for both input and output, including English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi.
- Real-time API: The Multimodal Live API allows developers to build dynamic applications with real-time audio and video streaming.
Overall, Gemini 2.0 Flash is a more powerful, versatile, and capable AI model than Gemini 1.5 Flash. It offers significant improvements in performance, new features, and enhanced capabilities, making it a more suitable choice for developers looking to build cutting-edge AI applications.