Google AI research lab DeepMind says its newly released artificial intelligence model, Gemini 2.0, will be the bedrock used to build more advanced AI agents. An AI agent powered by Gemini 2.0, released Dec.

Google Gemini 2.0 — a major upgrade to the core workings of Google's AI that the company launched Wednesday — is designed to help generative AI move from answering users' questions to taking action on its own,

Google is also investing in video games and AI in another way: creating playable virtual worlds on the fly from a prompt image using a “foundation world model” called Genie 2 that it showed off last week. That work seems early, too: Genie 2 can only generate consistent worlds for “up to a minute,” Google says.

Google says its new generation of AI models can understand more of the world and take action on your behalf.

Google debuted a new version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that it said is twice as fast as its previous version and will power virtual agents that assist users. The new model, Gemini 2.

CNBC's Deidre Bosa joins 'The Exchange' to report on Google as the tech giant released the first of its Gemini 2.0 AI models on Wednesday.

Gemini 2.0 was built for what Google insists upon calling the " agentic era ," which will be marked by AI models (agents) that can act autonomously on your behalf. Gemini 2.0 will power some of Google's previously teased AI projects,