Second, world-class research, including models.
In December, we unveiled Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet, built for the agentic era. We launched an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash, our workhorse model with low latency and enhanced performance.
Flash has already rolled out to the Gemini app, and tomorrow we’re making 2.0 Flash generally available for developers and customers, along with other model updates — so stay tuned.
Late last year, we also debuted our experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model. The progress to scale thinking has been super fast, and the reviews so far have been extremely positive. We are working on even better thinking models and look forward to sharing those with the developer community soon.
Gemini 2.0’s advances in multimodality and native tool use enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.
One early example is Deep Research. It uses agentic capabilities to explore complex topics on your behalf and give key findings, along with sources. It launched in Gemini Advanced in December and is rolling out to Android users all over the world.
We’re seeing great product momentum with our consumer Gemini app, which debuted on iOS last November.
And we’ve opened up trusted tester access to a handful of research prototypes, including Project Mariner, which can understand and reason across information on a browser screen to complete tasks, and Project Astra. We expect to bring features from both to the Gemini app later this year.
We’re also excited by the progress of our video and image generation models: Veo 2, our state-of-the-art video generation model, and Imagen 3, our highest quality text-to-image model.
These generative media models, as well as Gemini, consistently top industry leaderboards and score top marks across industry benchmarks. That’s why more than 4.4 million developers are using our Gemini models today, double the number from just six months ago.
And we continue to drive research breakthroughs in quantum computing. At the end of last year, we announced Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits. Willow is an important step in our journey to build a useful quantum computer with practical applications. This technology holds so much promise, which is why there was real excitement around this breakthrough.
Original Source: https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q4-2024/