Google announced Gemini 2.0 on its blog today, with a foreword from CEO Sundar Pichai (via The Verge ). The headlining changes are native image and audio abilities and built-in access to external tools like Google Search, but there's a lot more going on under the surface.

Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with an experimental release called Gemini 2.0 Flash. The model family can generate text, images, and speech while processing multiple types of input including text,

CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post dubbed the moment as the start of a "new agentic era," referring to virtual assistants that can perform tasks with greater autonomy.