Google Gemini 2 comes with an AI agent that can browse the web for me, Project Mariner, but I already have privacy questions about it.

Google has introduced Mariner, an advanced AI agent and prototype powered by its Gemini 2.0 framework. Here's how the AI agent is changing the search game online.

That may explain why Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind and the head of all the company’s AI efforts, is so excited about how all-encompassing the new Gemini 2.0 model is. Google is releasing Gemini 2.

Google released the first artificial intelligence model in its Gemini 2.0 family Wednesday, known as Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Google on Wednesday unveiled Gemini 2.0, its next-gen genAI model and its biggest AI update to date. The announcement dropped right in the middle of OpenAI’s big ChatGPT Christmas-themed event, showing how incredibly competitive the AI race is.

Google is also investing in video games and AI in another way: creating playable virtual worlds on the fly from a prompt image using a “foundation world model” called Genie 2 that it showed off last week. That work seems early, too: Genie 2 can only generate consistent worlds for “up to a minute,” Google says.

The battle for AI supremacy is heating up. Almost exactly a week after OpenAI made its o1 model available to the public, Google today is offering a preview of its next-generation Gemini 2.0 model. In a blog post attributed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai,

Project Astra, which was shown off at Google I/O earlier this year, is a major leap in Google's AI research from its DeepMind team in London. Like the video from earlier this year