New Gemini app features, available to try at no cost

Today, we’re making big upgrades to the performance and availability of our most popular Gemini features, and adding a new feature that will make Gemini even more personal and helpful.

2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental gets new features and a longer context window

Today, we’re starting to roll out an upgraded version of our 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model that supports added features like file upload. This model, which is trained to break down prompts into a series of steps to strengthen its reasoning capabilities and deliver better responses, now has better efficiency and speed. And now, Gemini Advanced users will have access to a 1M token context window with 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, enabling you to solve more complex problems than ever before by exploring and analyzing large amounts of information.

Deep Research is even smarter, rolling out for everyone to try

In December, we pioneered a new product category in Gemini with Deep Research. It saves you hours of time as your personal AI research assistant, searching and synthesizing information from across the web in just minutes, and helps you discover sources from across the web you may not have otherwise found.

Today, we're upgrading Deep Research with Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. This enhances Gemini's capabilities across all research stages — from planning and searching to reasoning, analyzing and reporting — creating higher-quality, multi-page reports that are more detailed and insightful. Gemini now shows its thoughts while it browses the web, giving you a real-time look into how it’s going about solving your research task. By pairing Deep Research with this new model, we expect the quality of reports to keep getting even better.

We’ve seen incredible enthusiasm about Deep Research, and are rolling it out starting today so that anyone ¹ will be able to try it across the globe in 45+ languages; just select Deep Research in the new prompt bar or model drop-down. Gemini users can try Deep Research a few times a month at no cost, and Gemini Advanced users get expanded access to Deep Research to save even more time on their most complex projects. Learn more on our website.

The Gemini app provides more helpful, personal responses

Gemini isn’t just a helpful assistant — it’s your personal, AI-powered assistant that understands you and makes every interaction feel tailored to you. Today, we’re enhancing the Gemini experience with a new, experimental capability called personalization ² , powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental.

With personalization, Gemini connects with your Google apps and services, beginning with Search, to deliver responses that are even more tailored to your individual needs. For example, you can ask Gemini for restaurant recommendations and it will reference your recent food-related searches, or ask for travel advice and Gemini will respond based on destinations you've previously searched. To enable this, select Personalization (experimental) from the model drop-down. You remain in control of your Search history and can always disconnect it from Gemini after enabling. Learn more on our website.

Connected apps are even more powerful

Part of the magic of Gemini as your personal AI assistant is being able to access the Google apps and services you already rely on. Now, starting in English, additional apps that connect to Gemini — including Calendar, Notes, Tasks and Photos — are becoming available on 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental ³ . With this thinking model, Gemini can better tackle complex requests like prompts that involve multiple apps, because the new model can better reason over the overall request, break it down into distinct steps, and assess its own progress as it goes. So in one single prompt, you can ask Gemini: “Look up an easy cookie recipe on YouTube, add the ingredients to my shopping list and find me grocery stores that are still open nearby.”

And in the coming weeks, we're adding Google Photos ⁴ to the list of apps that Gemini can interact with, so you can easily ask for help based on your pictures. For example, Gemini can look at photos from your recent trip and create a travel itinerary based on the places you visited, or you can ask Gemini to recall information - like when your driver’s license expires.

Gems are now available for everyone ⁵

Gems let you customize Gemini to create your own personal AI expert on any topic, and are starting to roll out for everyone at no cost in the Gemini app. Get started with one of our premade Gems or quickly create your own custom Gems, like a translator, meal planner or math coach. Just go to the “Gems manager” on desktop, write instructions, give it a name and then chat with it whenever you want. You can also upload files when creating a custom Gem, so it can reference even more helpful information.

We’re excited to continue improving and expanding the availability of our Gemini app features; give them a try at gemini.google.com.