Google unveils latest AI model, Gemini 2.0

San Francisco: Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world s tech gi...

San Francisco: Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world's tech giants race to take the lead in the fast developing technology.

CEO Sundar Pichai said the new model would be marking what the company calls "a new agentic era" in AI development, with AI models designed to understand and make decisions about the world around you.

"Gemini 2.0 is about making information much more useful," Pichai said in the announcement, emphasizing the model's enhanced ability to understand context, think multiple steps ahead, and take supervised actions on behalf of users.

Google, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Meta and Amazon are furiously taking steps to release more powerful AI models despite their immense cost and some questions about their immediate usefulness to the broader economy.

An AI agent, the latest Silicon Valley trend, is a digital helper that is supposed to sense surroundings, make decisions, and take actions to achieve specific goals.