For developers, there’s also an even more efficient version of Gemini 2.0 called 2.0 Flash-Lite. This model is designed to be even more cost-efficient for applications with high throughput. However, Google says it has the same 1 million token context window as Flash 2.0.

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.

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.