New Gemini app features that are free to test out
Gemini customers will now have access to Deep Research on 2.0 Flash Thinking, Gems, applications, and personalisation, among other new and improved capabilities.
Gemini features are getting significant performance and availability improvements today, and it also introducing a brand-new feature that will further personalise and enhance Gemini.
2.0 A longer context window and additional capabilities are added to Flash Thinking Experimental
Google released an updated version of its Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model today, which includes new functionality like file upload. This model is now more efficient and faster after being trained to deconstruct prompts into a sequence of steps to improve its reasoning skills and produce better answers. Additionally, Gemini Advanced customers will now have access to a 1M token context window with Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, which will allow you to explore and analyse vast volumes of data to solve more complicated problems than ever before.
Deep Research is even more intelligent and is being made available to everyone
With Deep Research, Google launched a brand-new product category in Gemini in December. As your own AI research assistant, it helps you find sources from the internet that you might not have otherwise located and saves you hours of time by searching and synthesising material from the web in a matter of minutes.
Google is using Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental to upgrade Deep Research today. As a result, Gemini is better equipped to handle all phases of research, from planning and searching to reasoning, analysing, and reporting, producing multi-page reports that are more thorough and perceptive. You can now see how Gemini is approaching your research work in real time as it browses the web and displays its thoughts. It anticipate that by combining this new model with Deep Research, report quality will continue to improve.
Deep Research has generated a lot of interest, so Google launching it today so that anyone may test it out in more than 45 languages worldwide. Simply choose Deep Research from the new prompt bar or model drop-down. Gemini Advanced users have more access to Deep Research to save even more time on their most complicated tasks, while Gemini users can test Deep Research a few times a month for free.
The Gemini app offers more individualised, beneficial answers
Gemini is more than simply a helpful assistant; it’s your own AI-powered personal assistant that knows you and customises every interaction. With the help of Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental,Google improving the Gemini experience today with a brand-new, experimental feature called personalisation.
In order to provide responses that are even more customised to your unique requirements, Gemini integrates with your Google apps and services, starting with Search. For instance, if you ask Gemini for restaurant ideas, it will look up recent food-related searches; if you ask Gemini for vacation advice, it will look up places you’ve looked up before. Choose Personalisation (experimental) from the model drop-down to make this available. After activating, you may always unplug your search history from Gemini, and you still have control over it.
The power of connected apps is considerably greater
The fact that Gemini can access the Google apps and services you already use is part of what makes it so amazing as your personal AI assistant. Other Gemini-connected apps, including as Calendar, Notes, Tasks, and Photos, are now accessible on Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, beginning in English.
Gemini can more effectively handle complicated requests, such as prompts involving many apps, using this thinking model since it can better reason about the request as a whole, divide it into discrete steps, and evaluate its own progress along the way. You can ask Gemini the following in a single prompt: “Find me grocery stores that are still open nearby, add the ingredients to my shopping list, and look up an easy cookie recipe on YouTube.”
In the coming weeks, Gemini can also interface with Google Photos, making it easy to request photo assistance. Ask Gemini to recall facts like your driver’s license expiration date or to look at photos from your most recent vacation and construct a travel schedule based on the places you visited.
Gems are now accessible to anyone
Gems, which are beginning to be made available to everyone for free through the Gemini app, allow you to personalise Gemini to create your own AI expert on any subject. Start with one of the readymade Gems or easily make your own unique Gems, such as a maths coach, food planner, or translator. Simply open the “Gems manager” on your desktop, write commands, give it a name, and then communicate with it at any time. When developing a custom Gem, you may optionally upload files so that it can refer to even more useful data.
Integrated data and privacy controls
You now have complete control over your data to this update. It put strong privacy protections in place:
- Be aware that Gemini will request authorisation before accessing your search history or any other apps. This guarantees that you are fully informed of and in control of how your data is used.
- Transparency of data sources:Its sophisticated thinking model gives you a detailed explanation of how Gemini tailors responses and can reveal the data sources that were used for your saved information, previous conversations, or search history. A clear notice with a link to quickly disconnect your search history appears when you’re utilising the personalisation experiment on Gemini.
- Data and control: With this experimental feature, Gemini will only retrieve your search history if you have enabled Web & App Activity, have chosen Gemini with personalisation, and have granted Gemini permission to link to your search history.
Additional methods to customise Gemini
In order to facilitate more organic dialogue and pertinent answers, you can already share your interests, preferences, and crucial information with Gemini, such as dietary restrictions or the names of your partners. Advanced subscribers can also request that Gemini consult their previous conversations in order to provide more insightful answers to your current queries. To further improve the customised experience, It will be implementing this feature for all Gemini users in more than 45 languages in the upcoming weeks.
All of these changes are intended to help Gemini become more of a natural extension of you and less of a tool, anticipating your needs and providing genuinely tailored support.
