Are you in a regulated field like healthcare, finance, or law — and have hesitated to use LLMs or tools like GitHub Copilot in your team because of data privacy, GDPR, or regulatory pressure? If so, what I'm about to tell you might change your mind.

The AI landscape moves at lightning speed, and the last few weeks have been no exception. Two giants, Meta and Google, dropped significant new language model updates: Meta with its long-awaited Llama 4 family and Google with the impressive Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Amidst the buzz surrounding DeepSeek and other cutting-edge AI models, there’s a new contender that’s flying under the radar but deserves a lot more attention: Gemini 2.0. After spending some time with it, I’m convinced this might become my new go-to model for developing LLM-based software. Here’s why.