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Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

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Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by quaintdev » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #22

damsta wrote: post #16

> 3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year at an introductory price of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens. > Introductory pricing expires on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens will apply.

Clearly this model will be irrelevant by Jan. 2027, why would Google even bother to say this?

Maybe they know something we don't. What if all frontier lab do this? Maybe this is actual cost of running these llm.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

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Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by nateb2022 » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288847 (35 points, 8 comments)

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by jdw64 » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

I'm really curious about this: the foundational paper behind today's LLMs came from Google, and some of the world's best scientists were at Google. So why are they falling so far behind in the AI race?

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by kromokromo » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #22

damsta wrote: post #16

> 3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year at an introductory price of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens. > Introductory pricing expires on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens will apply.

Clearly this model will be irrelevant by Jan. 2027, why would Google even bother to say this?

Its probably just a corporate symptom, weird stuff like this happens in messy large orgs.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by twelvechairs » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-3-7-flash

The selling point for gemini continues to be speed and particularly end-to-end response time.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by urams » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #22

damsta wrote: post #16

> 3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year at an introductory price of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens. > Introductory pricing expires on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens will apply.

Clearly this model will be irrelevant by Jan. 2027, why would Google even bother to say this?

It's basically a "if we really have to support this for a long time, we want to be compensated for that" pricing strategy. It's about long term maintenance cost being greater _because_ it will be irrelevant.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by cracadumi » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

For those looking for the full benchmark figures and technical overview, Google's primary announcement post is here: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by khanhnguyen8386 » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

Offering a 'temporary introductory discount' until Dec 2026 on an LLM is hilarious. In this market, by Jan 2027 this model will be superseded by 5 different providers offering 10x the performance at half the post-discount price anyway.