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š The performance improvements are crazy for such a fast model: ā£ Gemini 2.0 Flash outperforms the previous 1.5 Pro model at twice the speed ā£ Now supports both input AND output of images, video, audio and text ā£ Can natively use tools like Google Search and execute code
ā”ļø If the price is on par with previous Flash iteration ($0.30 / M tokens, to compare with GPT-4o's $1.25) the competition will have a big problem with this 4x cheaper model that gets better benchmarks š¤Æ
š¤ What about the agentic capabilities?
ā£ Project Astra: A universal AI assistant that can use Google Search, Lens and Maps ā£ Project Mariner: A Chrome extension that can complete complex web tasks (83.5% success rate on WebVoyager benchmark, this is really impressive!) ā£ Jules: An AI coding agent that integrates with GitHub workflows
I'll be eagerly awaiting further news from Google!
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