Summary

  • Google’s Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, is working towards a “universal AI assistant”
  • The firm has upgraded its Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro AI systems, improving performance in reasoning, coding and understanding long context and introducing a new experimental mode called Deep Think.
  • Deep Think can consider multiple responses to a query and is scoring highly on very difficult maths and coding tests.
  • The improved software has a one-million-token context window, supports more than 24 languages and can be directed to output audio in different accents and tones.
  • Developers can control how much thinking time the software uses and can turn it off completely for speed.

By Taryn Plumb

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