Google just shocked the AI world with Gemini 2.0 — their smartest and fastest model ever.
And as we’ll see, it’s already powering state-of-the art AI agents that understand and reason across your browser and apps to do complex tasks for you — incredible.
It’s a multimodal AI meaning it can handle text, images, audio, and code all at once. It makes it much more natural to interact with it.
Just like previous versions but now it takes things to a whole new level.
Before we had Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash. Pro was the heavyweight — smart but slow, Flash was the speedy lightweight companion.
Either was a tradeoff between accuracy and speed.
But now with Gemini 2.0 Flash there’s no more need for this tradeoff — it’s both smarter and faster than all the Gemini 1.5 variants:
Better at reasoning, math, coding, and much more.
It also comes with new features that make it possible to build autonomous AI agents.
Like it can detect the precise action you want it to take from your prompt — similar to GPT-4 function calling.
Google isn’t planning to be left behind in the battle to build the best and brightest AI agent.
And Gemini 2.0 coming to Google products like Search will mean smart answers, better content suggestions, and tools to help you get more done with less effort.
New AI agents
And Google has already built Project Mariner a web browsing agent powered by Gemini 2.0, and it’s already showing impressive performances.
It can understand and reason across info on your browser screen to navigate the web on its own and automatically perform tasks for you.
Online shopping, travel planning, gathering complex information from a diverse range of interconnected sources…
Similar to the agentic features to come in the upcoming Dia browser:
Then there’s Project Jules — an AI agent for software developers to level up their GitHub Workflow.
It’ll be able to develop comprehensive plans to solve issues and execute it — all guided by a developer to ensure total accuracy.
Project Astra is the AI agent for Android — a universal AI assistant that can use Google Search, Lens, and Maps
Final thoughts
Gemini 2.0 isn’t just a tech upgrade—it’s a glimpse into the future of AI.
Google’s making AI more powerful and practical for everyone. Expect to see AI agents popping up in more places in 2025 — and making your life a easier.