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Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

#11

Post by coder543 »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #8
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Why is Grok so popular

I think it has been free in some editor plugins, which is probably a significant factor.

I would rather use a model that is good than a model that is free, but different people have different priorities.

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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Post by koakuma-chan »

frde_me wrote: post #9
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

I know we have a lot of workloads at my company on older models no one has bothered to upgrade yet

Hell yeah, GPT 35 Turbo

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

#13

Post by davey48016 »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #8
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Why is Grok so popular

I think it's very cheap right now.

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

#14

Post by keeeba »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #8
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Why is Grok so popular

It came from nowhere to 1T tokens per week, seems… suspect.

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Gemini 2.0 Flash is the best fast non reasoning model by quite a margin. Lot of things doesn't require any reasoning.

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

#16

Post by rsc »

scosman wrote: post #2

Ugh. If the model name includes sem_ver version number, increment the version number when making a new release! Anthropic learned this lesson. Google, Deepseek, Kimi, OpenAI and others keep repeating it. This feels like Gemini_2.5_final_FINAL_FINAL_v2.

FWIW, the versions are not semver but they do follow a defined and regular version schema: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#model-versions.

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

#17

Post by riku_iki »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #8
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Why is Grok so popular

I think it is included for free into some coding product

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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Post by BoredPositron »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #8
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Why is Grok so popular

They had a lot of free promos with coding apps. It's okay and cheap so I bet some sticked with it.

Re: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #8
Liwink wrote: post #5

Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular. From OpenRouter last week: * xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T * Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B * Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B * Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B * Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B * DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B * xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B * OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B * DeepSeek: De…

Why is Grok so popular

It's pretty good and fast af. At backend stuff is ~ gpt5-mini in capabilities, writes ok code, and works good with agentic extensions like roo/kilo. My colleagues said it handles frontend creation so-so, but it's so fast that you can "roll" a couple of tries and choose the one you want.

Also cheap enough to not really matter.

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