Now millions of developers are building with Gemini. And it’s helping us reimagine all of our products — including all 7 of them with 2 billion users — and to create new ones. NotebookLM is a great example of what multimodality and long context can enable for people, and why it’s loved by so many.

Over the last year, we have been investing in developing more agentic models, meaning they can understand more about the world around you, think multiple steps ahead, and take action on your behalf, with your supervision.

Today we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality — like native image and audio output — and native tool use, it will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant.

NVIDIA and TSMC have developed a silicon photonics-based chip prototype, according to a report in the Taiwanese press. TSMC is the world’s leading contract chip manufacturer, and with Intel’s troubles, it has also established itself as the most advanced chip manufacturer on the planet. Silicon photonics is an emerging chip manufacturing technology that blends photonic circuits with traditional circuits to overcome physical limitations with semiconductor fabrication. According to the report, the prototype was developed late last year, with NVIDIA and TSMC also working on optical packaging technologies to improve AI chip performance.

NVIDIA & TSMC Are Working On Advanced Packaging Technologies, Says Report

TSMC’s latest chip manufacturing technology, the 2-nanometer node, is believed to have a minimum gate and metal pitches of 45 and 20 nanometers, respectively. In semiconductor fabrication, a gate pitch measures the distance between two gates on a chip, while a metal pitch measures the distance between two metal interconnects. A gate controls the flow of electrons on a transistor, while an interconnect ensures inter-transistor communication on a chip.

Elon the Great.

Sam Altman penned a blog post on his website titled Reflections, where he mused on the brief history of ChatGPT and where OpenAI is heading — AGI came up right away.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the first artificial intelligence agents might enter the workforce this year as his company inches closer to developing humanlike artificial general intelligence (AGI).

“We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies,” said Altman in a blog post titled “Reflections” on Jan. 6.

AI agents or agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that exhibit autonomous decision-making and goal-directed behavior. They can autonomously understand complex goals, make decisions, take actions with minimal human intervention and execute multi-step reasoning processes.

Researchers from Google and Stanford have created accurate AI replicas of more than 1,000 people.