What you have to know
- Gemini 2.0 Flash is rolling out now without cost customers within the Gemini app.
- It replaces Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental, which was as soon as completely for subscribers, and can finally change Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Professional.
- Google One AI Premium subscribers nonetheless get a bigger context window and unique options.
Google is now making Gemini 2.0 Flash out there without cost customers within the Gemini app, changing the placeholder Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental mannequin, and finally older Gemini fashions. Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Professional will stick round for “the following few weeks” so customers can proceed their conversations. After that, Gemini 2.0 fashions — beginning with Gemini 2.0 Flash will change them.
Beforehand, the Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental mannequin was unique to Gemini Superior subscribers within the Gemini app. Google One AI Premium members nonetheless get unique perks, like a one-million token context window (good for as much as 1,500 pages of file uploads), Deep Analysis, Gems, and extra. Free customers get entry to Gemini 2.0 Flash conversations and picture uploads.
Google describes the Gemini 2.0 Flash mannequin as providing “quick responses and stronger efficiency throughout a lot of key benchmarks, offering on a regular basis assist with duties like brainstorming, studying or writing.” Comparatively, the Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental mannequin it replaces was described as “an early preview and may not work as anticipated.”
Presumably, the longer term Gemini lineup will embrace Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 1.5 Professional with Deep Analysis, and Gemini 2.0 Experimental Superior — with the latter two fashions being paid choices for Gemini Superior customers. All customers now get improved Imagen 3 picture era, which “delivers richer particulars and textures” and “follows your directions with larger accuracy,” in keeping with Google.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental first turned out there for Gemini app beta testers final month. It is unclear after we would possibly see Gemini 2.0 Experimental Superior, or different 2.0 fashions, change into steady. The steady Gemini 2.0 Flash mannequin is already out there on the Gemini net shopper and is rolling out now within the Gemini app, with free entry out there for the primary time.
