Google ushers in the "Gemini era" with AI advancements

Google has announced several AI-related updates, including the introduction of Gemini 1.5 Flash and enhancements to Gemini 1.5 Pro. Gemini 1.5 Flash is designed for speed and efficiency, while retaining multimodal reasoning capabilities. The company has also extended the context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro to two million tokens. Additionally, Google has announced its next generation of open models, Gemma 2, and has shared progress on Project Astra, its vision for AI assistants that can process information faster and respond quickly in conversation. Some of these capabilities will be coming to Google's products later this year.