Google AI features announced in Feb

This is a recap of some of Google's biggest AI updates from February, including making Gemini 2.0 available for everyone, helping people explore new careers with AI, adding Deep Research to the Gemini mobile app and more.

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

• Gemini 2.0 Flash Update: Recently updated and now generally available, it's known for its speed and efficiency, ideal for high-frequency tasks.
• Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental: The best model so far for coding performance and handling complex prompts, available as an experimental version.
• Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: This New, cost-efficient model, offers better quality than the previous 1.5 Flash, available in public preview.
• New Capabilities: All models will feature multimodal input with text output, and future updates will introduce more modalities.
• Safety and Responsibility: Enhanced measures for safe and secure use, including reinforcement learning techniques and automated red teaming to assess security risks.

Here are some of the other helpful AI tools Google announced in February.

• New experiments to help people explore more career possibilities. Google's new AI tool Career Dreamer can analyze your background, skills and interests to help you identify potential career opportunities. Career Dreamer will even help you use Gemini — your AI assistant from Google — to craft a professional story and cover letter, and then discover training resources like Google Career Certificates.
• Free AI coding assistant. Developers have been using Gemini 2.0 Flash to build helpful applications for people. Now, developers can get free AI-assisted coding help — with the highest usage limits available — as well as code review assistance. This is another way to support developers as they create helpful apps and high-quality code.
  
  
• Veo 2 to YouTube Shorts, opening up new possibilities for creators. Veo 2 is Google's latest video generation model that helps you create high-quality videos in a wide range of subjects and styles. Now, you can try it out the next time you create a YouTube Short using Dream Screen, a YouTube feature that takes a text prompt and generates AI backgrounds and even standalone video clips for Shorts.
  
  
• Deep Research on the Gemini mobile app so you can get answers on the go. Deep Research, now available for advanced users on the Gemini mobile app on Android and iOS, can help you generate comprehensive, easy-to-read reports on just about any research topic. It’s a time saver and a new approach to accessing and distilling complex information, quickly.
  
  
• A new AI system for scientists. With the release of Google AI co-scientist, a new AI system built on Gemini 2.0, scientists and researchers have shown how Google can use AI to create novel biomedical hypotheses and research plans. The system’s hypotheses have already seen preliminary validation in drug discovery and antimicrobial resistance research.
• Advanced features for flood experts in Flood Hub. Floods continue to devastate communities worldwide, and AI-driven flood forecasting and response can help. Google's new advanced features in Flood Hub — including inundation history maps and basin view — will help aid organizations and governments support vulnerable communities. Google also expanding partnerships with international aid organizations like Give Directly and the International Rescue Committee to support people affected by floods.
  
  
• At the AI Action Summit in Paris, Sundar described this moment as the potential beginning of a golden age of innovation. AI-enabled advances are delivering generational progress in areas like health, energy, transportation, road safety and disaster response — and quickening the pace of scientific discovery. But, as Sundar noted, the greatest benefits of AI aren’t guaranteed. He shared what it will take to make the most of this historic moment, and how public leaders, the private sector and civil society can bring forward this age of innovation. To that end, in February, Google also shared Google's new Policy Framework for Building the Future of Science and announced a new initiative to use AI to advance the treatment of women's cancer. It’s part of Google's broad effort to ensure the most capable AI is used to benefit everyone, across society.
  
  

Source: Google