Google Teases What Is Coming Next To Gemini Advanced

In a newsletter (email) to Gemini Advanced subscribers today, Google teased what will be available in the coming months.

Google today sent a “February Newsletter” to Gemini Advanced subscribers, with Google AI Premium being $19.99 per month. It starts by recapping the recent Experimental model launches, and differentiates them as such:

• Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental: “Our leading model designed for this new era of AI, providing better factuality and exceptional performance for coding and math prompts. 2.0 Pro Experimental will help you navigate the most complex tasks with greater ease and accuracy.”
• Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking: “Built on the speed and performance of 2.0 Flash, this experimental model transparently showcases its thought process in real time. Expand to see why it responded a certain way, its assumptions, and trace the reasoning.”

It also highlights last week’s launch of recall in the Gemini app and NotebookLM Premium.

New in this Gemini Advanced email is a tease about “More exciting updates are on the horizon,” specifically “in the coming months.” The subscription is referred to as “your pass to Google’s next-gen AI,” so these bullet points might be referring to more than just the Gemini app. 

• “Explore new ways to create with leading video, image, and audio generation tools.”

The Gemini app already provides access to Imagen 3, which last updated in January, while Veo 2 is behind a Google Labs waitlist. Audio generation is presumably referring to MusicLM and/or Lyria. It would be interesting if Gemini Advanced provided priority access to those standalone or Gemini-integrated tools.

• “Be more productive with agentic tools that can take action on your behalf, freeing you up to spend your time how you want.”

In terms of agentic tools there’s Project Mariner, which CEO Sundar Pichai previously said would come to the Gemini app in some form this year. Other agentic features could be in Google Workspace, with I/O 2024 featuring a demo about how you could “ask Gemini to automatically organize email attachments in Drive, generate a sheet with the data and then analyze it with Data Q&A.”

• “Tackle even more complex projects with new model upgrades and access to experimental models built to deliver improved performance.”

The last point is more straightforward with Gemini 2.0 Pro eventually hitting stable and becoming the default model for Advanced subscribers. It will be interesting to see how Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking gets presented to end users.

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