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Wrote up my initial impressions of the new Google Gemini 2.0 Flash model - it's really good, and the streaming mode (where you can stream video and audio to it and get audio streamed right back) is pure science-fiction simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/...

simonwillison.netGemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming modeHuge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and …

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Very impressive multimodality, seems google has now reached the level of real-time video identification they showed off in a deceptively edited demo video last year. I didn't know about the code execution and will be testing that out along with multimodality.

It is pretty wild that Gemini 2.0 Flash is better than 1.5 Pro. If the price settles anywhere close to 1.5 Flash ($0.075 / 1 million tokens), this will be the new model to beat.

That looks to me like it's using its knowledge - does that tool provide any kind of UI indication when it's actually executing code? It should do: the ChatGPT and Claude UIs both have clear code execution visual hints, which is definitely the right design decision