In addition to Gemini 1.5 Flash, Google is also upgrading Gemini 1.5 Pro, enhancing its abilities to write code, reason, and parse audio and images. Later this year, Google plans to double the model’s existing context window to two million tokens, enabling it to process two hours of video, 22 hours of audio, more than 60,000 lines of code, or over 1.4 million words simultaneously. Both Gemini 1.5 Flash and Pro are now available in public preview in Google’s AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google also announced a new version of its Gemma open model, Gemma 2.
Key takeaways:
- Google announced updates to its Gemini family of AI models, including a new model called Gemini 1.5 Flash, which is optimized for speed and efficiency.
- Gemini 1.5 Flash is designed for tasks such as summarization, chat applications, image and video captioning, and data extraction from long documents and tables.
- Google is also upgrading Gemini 1.5 Pro, enhancing its abilities to write code, reason, and parse audio and images, and plans to double its context window to two million tokens later this year.
- Both Gemini 1.5 Flash and Pro are now available in public preview in Google’s AI Studio and Vertex AI, and a new version of its Gemma open model, Gemma 2, was also announced.