Gemini 2.0 Pro Released
Narrative
Multimodal flagship exceeding Gemini 1.5 Pro. Native image/video/audio generation. 1M token context. Integrated thinking mode for complex reasoning.
Reality
Benchmarks strong: 90.1% on MMLU-Pro, competitive coding performance. Multimodal generation impressive but occasional artifacts. 1M context working but expensive. Thinking mode adds latency.
Implication
Established Google as multimodal leader. But reasoning commodity story overshadowed launch. Native multimodal generation became new differentiation vector.