With the Gemini family, Google is expanding its lineup of AI models to include an inexpensive option. Google has announced several big updates to Gemini, its family of artificial intelligence models.

In its latest move, Google has made Gemini 2.0, its most powerful suite of AI models, available to the general public.

The flood of AI news from Google comes in the wake of the launch of DeepSeek, the breakthrough Chinese AI tool that's been making headlines.

Flash-Lite 2 can generate captions for around 40,000 unique images at a cost of less than a dollar on Google AI Studio’s paid tier.

The latest Gemini 2.0 Flash model can interact with other Google apps and comes with reasoning chops, while the Gemini 2.0 Pro model excels at math and coding.

Google has now given its Gemini app access to a new AI model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. According to the announcement blog post, the company says this model is currently “ranked as the world’s best model” and is available at no cost.

The cost to develop AI models and, in turn, the cost to use them have come under investor scrutiny in recent weeks after DeepSeek revealed it spent less than US$6 million on the f