The flood of AI news from Google comes in the wake of the launch of DeepSeek, the breakthrough Chinese AI tool that's been making headlines.

The Gemini 2.0 Flash model is also now generally available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. This model supports multimodal input with text output and features a context window of 1 million tokens, enabling efficient processing of extensive information.

Announced in December, 2.0 Flash Thinking rivals OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini reasoning models in that it's capable of working through more complex problems and showing how it reasons through them. Previously, it debuted in AI Studio but now has broad availability in experimental mode as a dropdown option in the Gemini app.

Google on Wednesday released a suite of its most powerful and capable AI models, Geminin 2.0, to everyone as part of the search engine giant’s broader strategy this year. The strategy entails “investing heavily into AI Agents,