Google launches Gemini 2.0 for the 'agentic era'
Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash (experimental) with native image and audio output and tool use, alongside agent prototypes Project Astra, Project Mariner and Jules, framing it as a model for the agentic era.
Key facts
- Announced 11 December 2024
- Gemini 2.0 Flash outperformed 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks at twice the speed, per Google
- Native tool use (Search, code execution) and multimodal output
- Agent prototypes: Project Astra, Project Mariner (browser), Jules (coding)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking experimental reasoning model followed on 19 December 2024
What happened
Google shipped a faster, agent-oriented model generation and demoed several agent products.
Why it matters
Marked Google's return to competitive parity and the industry's pivot to agents.
Changelog
- 2026-09-29: created
Related events
- Gemini 1.5 Pro brings a 1-million-token context window ★★★★
- Gemini 2.5 Pro takes the top of the leaderboards ★★★★
Sources (2)
- officialIntroducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era (Google)
- discussionWikipedia: Gemini (language model)
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