Gemini 2.0 Flash is now generally available for customers and developers

Google arrived with a lot of big news during its quarterly earning report. Now, the Mountain View tech giant said that Gemini 2.0 Flash API has finally opened up for general availability for customers and developers.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, mentions in the Q4 earnings call that the company is “making 2.0 Flash generally available for developers and customers, along with other model updates — so stay tuned.” That allows us to speculate that Pichai is talking about the non-experimental Flash 2.0 API in Google AI Studio.

As of now, the pricing details of Gemini 2.0 Flash are still scarce. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model is currently one of the available models in Google AI Studio, alongside the Gemini 1.5 family and Gemini Experimental 1206 which arrived back in December.

Gemini 2.0 Flash is already available in the Gemini app for quite some time now. Paid users can get access to features like the 1M token context window, Deep Research, and upgraded Imagen 3 for image generation. Developers can also use the new Multimodal Live API for real-time voice and video interactions.

With that said though, Google also mentions older models will be phased out soon as Google transitions to 2.0 Flash, which also supports a unified Gen AI SDK for easier development.

Google recorded a strong financial performance in the last quarter, which was mainly driven by its advertising, AI, and cloud businesses. YouTube ads, for example, hit $10.47 billion in revenue and contributed big time to Alphabet’s total ad revenue of $72.46 billion, which accounted for 75% of its overall income.