Tech Innovation

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

Google announces general availability of Gemini 2.0 Flash across its AI products, introduces new experimental 2.0 Pro model with enhanced coding capabilities, and launches cost-efficient 2.0 Flash-Lite model. The updates include improved performance benchmarks, expanded context windows up to 2 million tokens, and multimodal capabilities, with more features planned for release in coming months.

S1: The $6 R1 Competitor?

A groundbreaking paper demonstrates how a $6 AI model, running on a laptop, achieves near state-of-the-art performance using only 1,000 training examples and innovative inference-time scaling techniques. The research reveals simple yet effective methods for controlling AI model thinking time and highlights the accelerating pace of AI development through cost-effective experimentation.