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Google brings second-gen AI models to the Gemini mobile app

By Nadeem Sarwar Published February 5, 2025

AI Model selector option in the Gemini mobile app for iPhones. — Oplus_20054016 Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

Earlier today, Google made a few notable AI announcements, at a time when the tech industry is peeling the layers of China’s DeepSeek AI and the search giant is staring at anti-trust heat in China. The latest from Google is an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Pro, which is claimed to be the company’s latest and greatest so far.

“It has the strongest coding performance and ability to handle complex prompts, with better understanding and reasoning of world knowledge, than any model we’ve released so far,” says the company. This one raises the prompt context window to 2 million tokens, allowing it to ingest and comprehend massive inputs with ease.

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On the more affordable side of things, Google is pushing the new 2.0 Flash-Lite model as a public preview. Focused on reduced costs and snappier performance, this one is now available in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI systems.

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What’s new Gemini mobile app?

AI models available in the Gemini mobile app for Android phones. — Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

For smartphone users, the Gemini app is now getting access to these AI upgrades. Starting today, the mobile application will let users pick between the new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental models.

Currently ranked as No. 1 on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard — and ahead of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek R1 — the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model is a massive leap forward for a couple of reasons.

First, it can work with data pulled from apps such as YouTube, Google Maps, and Search. Based on your queries, this Gemini model can cross-check information from within those platforms and offer relevant answers.

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Second, it comes with thinking and reasoning capabilities. To put it simply, you can see, in real-time, how this model breaks down your commands and puts together the information as a cohesive response.

The result, as Google puts it, is improved explainability, speed, and performance. It allows text and image input with support for up to a million token window, while the knowledge cut-off boundary is set to June 2024.

Next, we have the Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental model, which is now available to folks who pay for a Gemini Advanced subscription. Google says this one is “exceptional at complex tasks,” particularly at chores such as maths problem-solving and coding.

This multi-modal AI model can also pull relevant data from Google Search, and combine it with enhanced world understanding chops to handle more demanding tasks. You can access these new Gemini 2.0 series models on the mobile app as well as the web dashboard.

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Gemini is replacing Google Assistant. How will the shift affect you?

Google Assistant and Gemini apps on an Android phone.

The writing has been on the wall for a while, but the shift away from Google Assistant is now official. Google has announced that it will shift users to Gemini as the default AI assistant on their devices in the coming months. Once that happens, they will no longer be able to access the Google Assistant.
At the moment, you can switch to Google Assistant as the default option on your Android phone, even on newer phones that come with Gemini running out of the box. In addition to phones, Google will be giving a similar treatment to smartwatches, Android Auto, tablets, smart home devices, TVs, and audio gear.
“We're also bringing a new experience, powered by Gemini, to home devices like speakers, displays, and TVs,” says Google, without sharing a specific time frame for the transition. What happens to Google Assistant following the transition? Well, it will be removed from devices and will no longer be available to download from app stores.

Talking about apps, Gemini can already interact with a wide range of Google’s own as well as a few third-party apps. Users can ask it to perform chores across different products, without ever having to open those apps. In addition to in-house apps such as Docs, Drive, and Gmail, the Gemini assistant can also perform tasks in third-party apps such as WhatsApp and Spotify, alongside a bunch of Samsung apps.

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Google Gemini can now tap into your search history

Google Gemini app on Android.

Google has announced a wide range of upgrades for its Gemini assistant today. To start, the new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model now allows file upload as an input, alongside getting a speed boost.
The more notable update, however, is a new opt-in feature called Personalization. In a nutshell, when you put a query before Gemini, it takes a peek at your Google Search history and offers a tailored response.
Down the road, Personalization will expand beyond Search. Google says Gemini will also tap into other ecosystem apps such as Photos and YouTube to offer more personalized responses. It’s somewhat like Apple’s delayed AI features for Siri, which even prompted the company to pull its ads.

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Google Gemini to play larger role at your workplace

Gemini running on the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

AI will soon be entering the work chat. Google has announced that it will be bringing new Gemini features to Google Workspace.

The company announced in a blog post that advanced new Gemini features will be added to Google Meet and Google Chat starting today. The AI program will help spruce up virtual workplace meetings in Google Workspace.