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AI Daily Brief — 05 February 2025

Wednesday delivered Google’s full Gemini 2.0 family in production. Gemini 2.0 Flash moved to general availability via API at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per million tokens with a 1M-token context window. Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental shipped to developers and Gemini Advanced users with a 2M-token context window and what Google called “the strongest coding performance and ability to handle complex prompts” of any model it had released. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite entered public preview. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental gained access to YouTube, Maps, and Google Search inside the Gemini app. South Korea’s industry ministry temporarily banned DeepSeek on government devices. OpenAI extended Deep Research to Pro subscribers in the UK, Switzerland, and the EEA.

Top stories

  • Gemini 2.0 Flash hits general availability. Production-ready via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. 1M token context window, multimodal input, native tool use. Pricing $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens. via Google DeepMind
  • Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental ships with 2M-token context. Released to developers in AI Studio + Vertex AI and to Gemini Advanced users. Google claims it has “the strongest coding performance and ability to handle complex prompts” of any model it has released. via Google DeepMind
  • Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite enters public preview. “Better quality than 1.5 Flash at the same speed and cost” — 1M token context, multimodal input. GA followed Feb 25. via Google Developers
  • Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental gets YouTube, Maps, Search access. Google connected its reasoning model to YouTube, Google Maps, and Google Search inside the Gemini app — free to test for all users, designed to address knowledge-cutoff issues with live tool access. via VentureBeat
  • South Korea industry ministry temporarily bans DeepSeek. Defense, foreign, and trade ministries also restricted access. The official notice urged ministries and agencies to exercise caution about generative AI services including DeepSeek and ChatGPT at work. via Bloomberg
  • OpenAI extends Deep Research to UK, Switzerland, EEA Pro subscribers. The autonomous research agent launched Feb 2 for US Pro users became available to Pro subscribers across the UK, Switzerland, and the EEA. via OpenAI

Who shipped

Google DeepMind owned the day. OpenAI shipped a geographic Deep Research expansion. Anthropic, Meta, xAI, and Mistral made no dated launches.

Open-source pulse

DeepSeek’s API remained closed to new top-ups — the late-January capacity-strain pause continued. API access would not be restored until Feb 25 after a roughly three-week shutdown. via TechCrunch Hugging Face’s Open-R1 reproduction effort continued building — Update #1 from Feb 2 framed the week’s open-source agenda. via Hugging Face

Money, infra & hardware

The Gemini 2.0 pricing — particularly Flash at $0.10/$0.40 per million tokens — was framed across coverage as Google’s direct counterweight to DeepSeek-V3 economics and to OpenAI’s upcoming mini-model line. Alphabet’s Q4 print the day prior had Cloud growing 30% YoY to $12 billion on GCP AI demand.

By the numbers

  • $0.10 / $0.40 — Gemini 2.0 Flash per-million-token pricing
  • 1M / 2M — Flash / Pro context windows
  • 3 Korean ministries restricting DeepSeek (industry, defense, foreign, trade)
  • Most-mentioned lab: Google DeepMind

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 5 February 2025.