Gemini 2.0 Flash is the base model that powers the free version of Gemini. It replaces Gemini 1.5 Flash which was released last year. That model came about halfway through 2024, so it’s a bit surprising that Google is releasing its successor so early in 2025. It makes us wonder if the company is going to launch version 2.5 later in the year.

Gemini 2.0 Flash model is designed for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale. It can perform multimodal reasoning across vast amounts of information with a context window of 1 million tokens

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.