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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

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50% price increase from Gemini 2.0 Flash. That sounds like a lot, but Flash is still so cheap when compared to other models of this (or lesser) quality. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gem...

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Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

#13
post #6

Gemini flash models have the least hype, but in my experience in production have the best bang for the buck and multimodal tooling. Google is silently winning the AI race.

> Google is silently winning the AI race.

That is what we keep hearing here...The last Gemini I cancelled the account, and can't help notice the new one they are offering for free...

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

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I did some testing this morning: Prompt: "can you find any mistakes on my codebase? I put one in there on purpose" + 70,000 tokens of codebase where in one line I have an include for a non-existent file. Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Try 1 - new chat) Claimed it Found a race condition in the api of the admin interface that would be triggered if two admins were to change the room order at the same time. Claude suggested I group…

The thread is about 2.5 Flash though, not 2.5 Pro. Maybe you can try again with 2.5 Flash specifically? Even though it's a small model.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

#16

OpenAI might win the college students but it looks like Google will lock in enterprise.

ChatGPT seems to have a name recognition / first-mover advantage with college students now, but is there any reason to think that will stick when today's high school students are using Gemini on their Chromebooks?

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

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post #6

Gemini flash models have the least hype, but in my experience in production have the best bang for the buck and multimodal tooling. Google is silently winning the AI race.

Absolutely. So many use cases for it, and it's so cheap/fast/reliable

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

#18
Absolutely decimated on metrics by o4-mini, straight out of the gate, and not even that much cheaper on output tokens (o4-mini's thinking can't be turned off IIRC).

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

#19

OpenAI might win the college students but it looks like Google will lock in enterprise.

Funny you should say that. Google just announced today that they are giving all college students one year of free Gemini advanced. I wonder how much that will actually move the needle among the youth.

Re: Gemini 2.5 Flash

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post #13
post #6

Gemini flash models have the least hype, but in my experience in production have the best bang for the buck and multimodal tooling. Google is silently winning the AI race.

> Google is silently winning the AI race. That is what we keep hearing here...The last Gemini I cancelled the account, and can't help notice the new one they are offering for free...

Sorry I was talking of B2B APIs for my YC startup. Gemini is still far behind for consumers indeed.
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