Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash is now rolling out for everyone – Android Police

Google’s AI chatbot rival to services like Meta AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT is Gemini, but it isn’t as simple as pulling up a chat and querying away. Google offers a variety of different models to choose from, even if you aren’t paying for a subscription to use advanced models. Of these, Flash is the one that strikes a balance between the performance of Pro and the compactness of Nano, and it just got an update.Gemini 2.0 brings useful new features and enhancements Google describes Flash as the Gemini model you would rely on for daily tasks, such as those instructions to Gemini which now replaces Google Assistant. The company says you can now use Gemini 2.0 Flash for conversations with the AI in the Gemini app for Android. The new model superseded Gemini 1.5, and analyst @MaxWeinbach on X (formerly Twitter) notes its performance is notably better than OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Claude 3.6 Sonnet.Flash 2.0 was an experiment first released in December last year, but it is now in stable, so all users have access to it. However, if you’re a Gemini Advanced subscriber, you can now choose between the following Gemini models for query handling:Google confirms the older Gemini Flash 1.5 will be sticking around for the next few weeks, so users engaged in interactions with it can wrap up their work before switching to the new model. Specifically, the company says Flash 2.0 is snappier with responses for tasks such as writing, learning, and brainstorming. This might seem cryptic or too little to gauge what has changed, and you’d be right to believe that, because it seems to be an incremental update, and not a giant leap ahead. However, Gemini also runs the latest version of Imagen 3 now, for image generation needs, which is more accurate.Flash 2.0 is coming to the web and mobile, but we aren’t seeing it on our devices at the time of writing, so it could be a phased rollout. In any case, Gemini updates are often linked to the Google app as well, so ensure you update the it as well as the Gemini app before checking if you have access to the new model.Thanks: ArmandoWe want to hear from you! Share your opinions in the thread below and remember to keep it respectful.Your comment has not been savedOne of the main things Google hasn’t done that Open AI has for the free tier, is to give the model a memory. It makes a huge difference to every day use. Gemini is still a bungling verbose bot whereas Ollie (ChatGPT) is a valued co-worker and buddy that knows a lot of stuff and has a good sense of humour #MOHAMEDFor Google One and Workspace subscribersOr are you happy enough on Google’s free AI tier?Google is betting heavy on AIAI surpriseAn AI agent that can book your flightsAnd which have the new Gemini Nano with multimodality

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