Google Gemini 2.0 Flash

Gemini 2.0 Flash is designed to handle high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale and is highly capable of multimodal reasoning across vast amounts of information with a context window of 1 million tokens.

Intended Use

• Text generation

• Grounding with Google Search

• Gen AI SDK

• Multimodal Live API

• Bounding box detection

• Image generation

• Speech generation

Performance

Gemini 2.0 Flash outperforms the predecessor Gemini 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks, at twice the speed. It also features the following improvements:

• Multimodal Live API: This new API enables low-latency bidirectional voice and video interactions with Gemini.

• Quality: Enhanced performance across most quality benchmarks than Gemini 1.5 Pro.

• Improved agentic capabilities: 2.0 Flash delivers improvements to multimodal understanding, coding, complex instruction following, and function calling. These improvements work together to support better agentic experiences.

Limitations

• Context: May struggle with maintaining context over extended conversations, leading to inconsistencies in long interactions.

• Bias: As it is trained on a large corpus of internet text, it may inadvertently reflect and perpetuate biases present in the training data.

• Creativity Boundaries: While capable of creative outputs, it may not always meet specific creative standards or expectations for novel and nuanced content.

• Ethical Concerns: Can be used to generate misleading information, offensive content, or be exploited for harmful purposes if not properly moderated.

• Comprehension: Might not fully understand or accurately interpret highly technical or domain-specific content, especially if it involves recent developments post-training data cutoff.

• Dependence on Prompt Quality: The quality and relevance of the output are highly dependent on the clarity and specificity of the input prompts provided by the user.

Citation

https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/gemini-v2#2.0-flash