Google Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash For AI Studio And Vertex AI

The holiday season is long over, and the season of Gemini is ramping up. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been getting several interesting and powerful AI models from Google, and the company just keeps dealing them out. Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash for Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Along with the abovementioned news, Google also released Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental to the app. Using the model switcher, users can choose to throw their prompts at these two models. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental is a reasoning model that will break down its thought process and show you how it came to its answer. It’s the same thing you get with OpenAI’s o1 models.

The “Flash” in this model’s name means that it’s a model focused on speed. You’ll want to use this model if you want your answers in a timely fashion. The company released an early version of this model a while back, but this is the stable release.

Gemini 2.0 Flash is the base model that powers the free version of Gemini. It replaces Gemini 1.5 Flash which was released last year. That model came about halfway through 2024, so it’s a bit surprising that Google is releasing its successor so early in 2025. It makes us wonder if the company is going to launch version 2.5 later in the year.

If you use either Google AI Studio or Vertex AI, you can now use this powerful new model. You’ll get faster and more comprehensive answers that will aid you in what you’re doing.

In case you don’t know what these platforms are, Google AI Studio is a platform that you can use to create and tune your own models. Vertex AI is similar, but it’s more on the enterprise level.

In any case, you can expect better and more accurate answers using Gemini 2.0 Flash. Not only will you get better answers, but this model will go on to power more extraordinary AI features. We’re already seeing some features from Project Astra being released. So, you should expect some new and exciting AI tools to come from Google over the rest of the year.