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Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by deaux »

echelon wrote: post #314
solfox wrote: post #267

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> they're serving companies at Google scale first I think that's actually a very interesting insight that would be helpful for PMs on GCloud to take note of. As a single founder, setting up Google Cloud, it's like they start out by assuming you're bigco, forcing (I assume most) of their users into a arduous process of removing components they don't need. Google AI Studio is one of Google's solutions to this problem,…

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Sergey's out spending $100 million to lobby against the billionaire tax in California. Lest his net worth shrink from roughly $250 billion to $237 billion. Can't become a pleb now! [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-b...

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by krat0sprakhar »

fiej wrote: post #358
krat0sprakhar wrote: post #215

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Can you help me understand how it is hard to get an API key from Google? You just head on over to http://aistudio.google.com/api-keys and create a key... not any different from platform.openai.com? Disclaimer: I work in Google so it might be that this link is not publicly well known

I tried to use Gemini for one of my projects a month ago. Immediately after signing up and paying for credits, I got an email saying, “Action required: your billing account {redacted} is past due or has invalid payment information.” I have no idea why it says this. My credit card on file works. My balance updated with a new amount from that card. 11 days later, my account was terminated. I still don’t understand what…

Have you tried using the free tier in https://aistudio.google.com/api-keys? Sorry for your billing issues - these can be super annoying to resolve

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by iknowstuff »

jaggederest wrote: post #299
piyh wrote: post #193

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Sol on Cerebras is going to be expensive AF

Is it? I think waferscale might actually be cheaper per-token, it's just so many more tokens, and of course right now it's not a full buildout so the availability is limited as well. I'd imagine they'll be migrating to whichever inference method is least expensive, and I expect asics to be the ultimate answer.

I'm not familiar with economics of chips, but I presume the SRAM on the wafer is less dense than HBM so it might be eating into its cost efficiency?

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by ikiris »

deaux wrote: post #391
echelon wrote: post #314

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Sergey's out spending $100 million to lobby against the billionaire tax in California. Lest his net worth shrink from roughly $250 billion to $237 billion. Can't become a pleb now! [0] [0] https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-b...

not that I'm intending to defend Sergey here but, if you could spend 0.04% of your net worth to protect 5% of your net worth (and probably all of your easy liquidity)... wouldn't you?

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by ipsum2 »

Recently my android phone updated from Google assistant to Gemini Flash. Completely unusable. Asking it to play music and it refuses, hallucinating instructions to connect Spotify to Gemini. The instructions say to tap buttons that don't exist.

Bonus feature from Gemini: a toggle to opt back into Google Assistant, but it doesn't work. Still stuck with Gemini.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by booi »

ipsum2 wrote: post #395

Recently my android phone updated from Google assistant to Gemini Flash. Completely unusable. Asking it to play music and it refuses, hallucinating instructions to connect Spotify to Gemini. The instructions say to tap buttons that don't exist. Bonus feature from Gemini: a toggle to opt back into Google Assistant, but it doesn't work. Still stuck with Gemini.

Gemini hallucinations will continue until morale improves

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by UlisesAC4 »

ipsum2 wrote: post #395

Recently my android phone updated from Google assistant to Gemini Flash. Completely unusable. Asking it to play music and it refuses, hallucinating instructions to connect Spotify to Gemini. The instructions say to tap buttons that don't exist. Bonus feature from Gemini: a toggle to opt back into Google Assistant, but it doesn't work. Still stuck with Gemini.

Yeah I don't know who was the genius who approved changing an Alexa lookalike to a chatgpt clone for our phones.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk »

fragmede wrote: post #289
qlte wrote: post #235

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FWIW I definitely did not not need to do anything like that to generate a key via AI Studio. It was like three clicks to get the free tier key, later on enabling billing was a few more plus typing in credit card info.

yeah, "enabling billing" is a whole other ordeal. Like it all makes sense, it's not that hard, it's just a lot of extra clicks where the competition doesn't require that. You can blow off this feedback as the user whining, but it's real friction and the competition doesn't have that, so users are going to go elsewhere if they can.

I signed up for AWS (SES) recently for the first time and find their whole thing confusing as heck too. Signed into the wrong region and they pretend they don't even know who I am.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by dannyw »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #102
parasti wrote: post #75

Actual announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge... So it's better than 3.6 Flash, at half the price. I've been pretty excited about Gemini models recently, they just feel so fast after spending most of the day at work waiting for Opus 5.

Yes, 3.6 Flash is very fast. I used to get a fair amount of usage of the Gemini Flash models on the free tier. I signed up for their $4.99/month tier (includes 400GB of Google space which was also enticing) and it turns out I only get about 15 to 20 minutes of usage before I get a come-back-in-7-days message. Comically low usage limits on that plan.

For comparison tho, 400GB of cloud storage for $5/mo is actually quite amazing even if it didn’t include anything else.

I know, it’s cloud storage, a NAS lets you own your data, but for non techies who have a bunch of photos and videos; it seems like an easy recommendation.

Re: Gemini 3.7 Flash

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Post by philtar »

krat0sprakhar wrote: post #215
jjcm wrote: post #133

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Other thoughts: I really think Google has fallen behind here. Even as a high speed offering (this build took ~7min, which is pretty good!), it wont be able to claim dominance for long with cerebras announcing the Sol preview today: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultraf... . It's not a bad model by any means, but I just don't know what situation I'd reach for 3.7 Flash first for. Google really n…

Can you help me understand how it is hard to get an API key from Google? You just head on over to http://aistudio.google.com/api-keys and create a key... not any different from platform.openai.com? Disclaimer: I work in Google so it might be that this link is not publicly well known

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