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Search engine giant Google on Wednesday launched its Gemini 2.0, an experimental model that can use websites on its own and is basically a model “for everything.” According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the latest model will enable users to build new AI agents that “bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.” The company has described its model as its most “capable model yet built for the agentic era.” The initiatives come as part of the firm’s efforts in the tech industry’s heightened competition against the likes of Meta, Microsoft, and Meta. Google will roll out the model across products Pichai also revealed the latest model, with multimodal capabilities will be rolled out across its products including native image and audio output. The search engine giant launched the Gemini 1.0 in December last year, which Google said was the first “natively multimodal” model, suggesting the model could process and respond to text, video, image, audio, and code enquiries. The latest version represents Google’s latest efforts in the tech industry’s increasingly competitive AI race. “If Gemini 1.0 was about organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it much more useful.” Pichai. Gemini 2.0 comes nearly 10 months after Google first launched 1.5. The model is still in experimental preview, according to Google, with only one version of the model, the smaller, lower-end 2.0 Flash released. Google DeepMind CEO and head of the company’s AI efforts Demis Hassabis said this still was a big day for the tech giant. “It’s as good as the current Pro model is. So you can think of it as one whole tier better, for the same cost efficiency and performance efficiency and speed. We’re really happy with that,” Hassabis explained. Currently, only developers and testers are the first to get 2.0…

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