Google has announced a series of updates to Search for 2025, powered by Gemini 2.0, the company’s latest AI model.
Updates To AI Overviews
One of the most notable updates is the enhancement of AI Overviews.
CEO Sundar Pichai notes:
“Our AI Overviews now reach 1 billion people, enabling them to ask entirely new types of questions — quickly becoming one of our most popular Search features ever.”
With Gemini 2.0, AI overviews will soon handle complex topics and multi-step questions, including advanced math, multimodal queries, and coding.
Pichai explained:
“We’re bringing the advanced reasoning capabilities of Gemini 2.0 to AI Overviews to tackle more complex topics and multi-step questions, including advanced math equations, multimodal queries and coding.”
Google is testing these updates and plans to roll out the improved AI Overviews in early 2025, with plans to expand to more countries and languages within the next year.
Gemini 2.0
Gemini 2.0, mainly the Gemini 2.0 Flash model, is key to the recent Search updates.
As described by Google DeepMind’s leadership:
“2.0 Flash even outperforms 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks, at twice the speed.”