Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

Here's me not using Gemini 1 because the only use case for me for old assistant is setting a timer. Because of reports that Gemini is randomly incapable of setting one.

How does release of LLM API relate to assistant?

Pixels replaced Assistent w/ Gemini a while back and it was horrendous; would answer questions but not perform the basic tasks you actually used Assistant for (setting timer, navigating, home control, etc).

Seems like they're approaching parity (finally) months and months later (alarms/tv control work at least now), but losing basic oft-used functionality is a serious fumble.