{"id":205673,"date":"2025-02-06T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/google-opens-its-most-powerful-ai-models-to-everyone-the-next-stage-in-its-virtual-agent-push"},"modified":"2025-02-06T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:04:50","slug":"google-opens-its-most-powerful-ai-models-to-everyone-the-next-stage-in-its-virtual-agent-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/google-opens-its-most-powerful-ai-models-to-everyone-the-next-stage-in-its-virtual-agent-push","title":{"rendered":"Google opens its most powerful AI models to everyone, the next stage in its virtual agent push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-opens-its-most-powerful-ai-models-to-everyone-the-next-stage-in-its-virtual-agent-push.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/12\/11\/google-releases-the-first-of-its-gemini-2point0-ai-models.html\">gave access<\/a> to developers and trusted testers, as well as wrapping some features into Google products, but this is a \u201cgeneral release,\u201d according to Google.<\/p>\n<p>The suite of models includes 2.0 Flash, which is billed as a \u201cworkhorse model, optimal for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale,\u201d as well as 2.0 Pro Experimental for coding performance, and 2.0 Flash-Lite, which the company calls its \u201cmost cost-efficient model yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gemini Flash costs developers 10 cents per million tokens for text, image and video inputs, while Flash-Lite, its more cost-effective version, costs 0.75 of a cent for the same. Tokens refer to each individual unit of data that the model processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, the company gave access to developers and trusted testers, as well as wrapping some features into Google products, but this is a \u201cgeneral release,\u201d according to Google. The suite of models includes 2.0 Flash, which is billed as a \u201cworkhorse model, optimal for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale,\u201d as well as 2.0 Pro [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}