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Google has expanded access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, its latest AI flagship model, emphasizing its strong performance and competitive pricing. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai called Gemini 2.5 Pro Google's "most intelligent model + now our most in demand," reflecting an 80 percent increase in demand this month alone across both Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. Users can now access an expanded public preview with higher usage limits, including a free tier option, while Gemini Web Chat users can continue accessing the 2.5 Pro Experimental model, which should deliver equivalent performance. Additional announcements are expected at Google's Cloud Next '25 conference on April 9.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is significantly cheaper than competing models such as Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, input costs $1.25 per million tokens, with output at $10. Larger prompts increase to $2.50 and $15 per million tokens respectively. This pricing has surprised social media users, with some noting that it's "about to get wild" given the model's capabilities. Google also offers free grounding with Google Search for up to 500 queries per day in the free tier, followed by 1,500 additional free queries in the paid tier, however data from the free tier can be used for AI training, while data from the paid tier cannot. Independent testing by the AI research group EpochAI validates Google's benchmark results, as Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 84% on the GPQA Diamond benchmark, notably higher than human experts' typical 70% score. Ben Dickson from VentureBeat declared Gemini 2.5 Pro may be the “most useful reasoning model yet.” The model is also highly regarded for OCR, audio transcription, and long-context coding. Effectively pricing reasoning models is becoming the next big battleground for AI model developers, and Google's move with Gemini 2.5 Pro is a significant step in that direction. Recommended read:
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Jesus Rodriguez@TheSequence
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Anthropic has released a study revealing that reasoning models, even when utilizing chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning to explain their processes step by step, frequently obscure their actual decision-making. This means the models may be using information or hints without explicitly mentioning it in their explanations. The researchers found that the faithfulness of chain-of-thought reasoning can be questionable, as language models often do not accurately verbalize their true reasoning, instead rationalizing, omitting key elements, or being deliberately opaque. This calls into question the reliability of monitoring CoT for safety issues, as the reasoning displayed often fails to reflect what is driving the final output.
This unfaithfulness was observed across both neutral and potentially problematic misaligned hints given to the models. To evaluate this, the researchers subtly gave hints about the answer to evaluation questions and then checked to see if the models acknowledged using the hint when explaining their reasoning, if they used the hint at all. They tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1, finding that they verbalized the use of hints only 25% and 39% of the time, respectively. The transparency rates dropped even further when dealing with potentially harmful prompts, and as the questions became more complex. The study suggests that monitoring CoTs may not be enough to reliably catch safety issues, especially for behaviors that don't require extensive reasoning. While outcome-based reinforcement learning can improve CoT faithfulness to a small extent, the benefits quickly plateau. To make CoT monitoring a viable way to catch safety issues, a method to make CoT more faithful is needed. The research also highlights that additional safety measures beyond CoT monitoring are necessary to build a robust safety case for advanced AI systems. Recommended read:
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Google has broadened access to its advanced AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, showcasing impressive capabilities and competitive pricing designed to challenge rival models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Google's latest flagship model is currently recognized as a top performer, excelling in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), audio transcription, and long-context coding tasks. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted Gemini 2.5 Pro as Google's "most intelligent model + now our most in demand." Demand has increased by over 80 percent this month alone across both Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Google's expansion includes a tiered pricing structure for the Gemini 2.5 Pro API, offering a more affordable option compared to competitors. Prompts with less than 200,000 tokens are priced at $1.25 per million for input and $10 per million for output, while larger prompts increase to $2.50 and $15 per million tokens, respectively. Although prompt caching is not yet available, its future implementation could potentially lower costs further. The free tier allows 500 free grounding queries with Google Search per day, with an additional 1,500 free queries in the paid tier, with costs per 1,000 queries set at $35 beyond that. The AI research group EpochAI reported that Gemini 2.5 Pro scored 84% on the GPQA Diamond benchmark, surpassing the typical 70% score of human experts. This benchmark assesses challenging multiple-choice questions in biology, chemistry, and physics, validating Google's benchmark results. The model is now available as a paid model, along with a free tier option. The free tier can use data to improve Google's products while the paid tier cannot. Rates vary by tier and range from 150-2,000/minute. Google will retire the Gemini 2.0 Pro preview entirely in favor of 2.5. Recommended read:
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Ellie Ramirez-Camara@Data Phoenix
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Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, hailed as its most intelligent "thinking model" to date. This new AI model excels in reasoning and coding benchmarks, featuring an impressive 1M token context window. Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently accessible to Gemini Advanced users, with integration into Vertex AI planned for the near future. The model has already secured the top position on the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard, showcasing its superior performance in areas like math, instruction following, creative writing, and handling challenging prompts.
Gemini 2.5 Pro represents a new category of "thinking models" designed to enhance performance through reasoning before responding. Google reports that it achieved this level of performance by combining an enhanced base model with improved post-training techniques and aims to build these capabilities into all of their models. The model also obtained leading scores in math and science benchmarks, including GPQA and AIME 2025, without using test-time techniques. A significant focus for the Gemini 2.5 development has been coding performance, where Google reports that the new model excels at creating visual. Recommended read:
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Maximilian Schreiner@THE DECODER
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Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro, marking it as the company's most intelligent AI model to date. This new "thinking model" excels in reasoning and coding benchmarks, boasting a 1 million token context window for analyzing complex inputs. Gemini 2.5 Pro leads in areas like math, instruction following, creative writing, and hard prompts, according to the Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard.
The enhanced reasoning abilities of Gemini 2.5 Pro allow it to go beyond basic classification and prediction. It can now analyze information, draw logical conclusions, incorporate context, and make informed decisions. Google achieved this performance by combining an enhanced base model with improved post-training techniques. The model scored 18.8% on Humanity's Last Exam, which Google notes is state-of-the-art among models without tool use. Amazon Web Services is integrating its AI-powered assistant, Amazon Q Developer, into the Amazon OpenSearch Service. This integration provides users with AI capabilities to investigate and visualize operational data across hundreds of applications. Amazon Q Developer eliminates the need for specialized knowledge of query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features, making the platform's advanced functionalities accessible through natural language commands. This integration enables anyone to perform sophisticated explorations of data to uncover insights and patterns. In cases of application or service incidents on Amazon ES, users can quickly create visualizations to understand the cause and monitor the application for future prevention. Amazon Q Developer can also provide instant summaries and insights within the alert interface, facilitating faster issue resolution. Recommended read:
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Maximilian Schreiner@THE DECODER
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Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is making waves as a top-tier reasoning model, marking a leap forward in Google's AI capabilities. Released recently, it's already garnering attention from enterprise technical decision-makers, especially those who have traditionally relied on OpenAI or Claude for production-grade reasoning. Early experiments, benchmark data, and developer reactions suggest Gemini 2.5 Pro is worth serious consideration.
Gemini 2.5 Pro distinguishes itself with its transparent, structured reasoning. Google's step-by-step training approach results in a structured chain of thought that provides clarity. The model presents ideas in numbered steps, with sub-bullets and internal logic that's remarkably coherent and transparent. This breakthrough offers greater trust and steerability, enabling enterprise users to validate, correct, or redirect the model with more confidence when evaluating output for critical tasks. Recommended read:
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Ken Yeung@Ken Yeung
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Microsoft is enhancing its Copilot Studio platform with new 'deep reasoning' capabilities, allowing AI agents to solve complex problems more effectively. This upgrade also includes 'agent flows' which blend AI's flexibility with structured business automation. The new Researcher and Analyst agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot represent a significant step forward in AI agent evolution, enabling them to handle sophisticated tasks requiring detailed analysis and methodical thinking.
Microsoft's Security Copilot service is also getting a boost with a set of AI agents designed to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up security professionals to focus on more critical threats. These AI agents are designed to assist with critical tasks such as phishing, data security, and identity management. These agents showcase the breadth of what can be created when combining enterprise business data, access to advanced reasoning models, and structured workflows. Recommended read:
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Vasu Jakkal@Microsoft Security Blog
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Microsoft is enhancing its Security Copilot with new AI agents designed to automate cybersecurity tasks and offer advanced reasoning capabilities. These agents aim to streamline security operations, allowing security teams to focus on complex threats and proactive security measures. The agents, which will be available for preview in April 2025, will assist with critical areas like phishing, data security, and identity management.
The introduction of AI agents in Security Copilot addresses the overwhelming volume and complexity of cyberattacks. For example, the Phishing Triage Agent can handle routine phishing alerts, freeing up human defenders. In addition, Microsoft is introducing new innovations across Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview to help organizations secure their future with an AI-first security platform. Six new agentic solutions from Microsoft Security will enable teams to autonomously handle high-volume security and IT tasks while seamlessly integrating with existing Microsoft Security solutions. Recommended read:
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Jesus Rodriguez@TheSequence
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OpenAI has recently launched new audio features and tools aimed at enhancing the capabilities of AI agents. The releases include updated transcription and text-to-speech models, as well as tools for building AI agents. The audio models, named gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, promise better performance than the previous Whisper models, achieving lower word error rates across multiple languages and demonstrating improvements in challenging audio conditions like varying accents and background noise. These models are built on top of language models, making them potentially vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.
OpenAI also unveiled new tools for AI agent development, featuring a Responses API, built-in web search, file search, and computer use functionalities, alongside an open-source Agents SDK. Furthermore, they introduced o1 Pro, a new reasoning model, positioned for complex reasoning tasks, comes with a high cost, priced at $150 per million input tokens and $600 per million output tokens. The gpt-4o-mini-tts text-to-speech model introduces "steerability", allowing developers to control the tone and delivery of the model. Recommended read:
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Esra Kayabali@AWS News Blog
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Anthropic has launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their most advanced AI model to date, designed for practical use in both business and development. The model is described as a hybrid system, offering both quick responses and extended, step-by-step reasoning for complex problem-solving. This versatility eliminates the need for separate models for different tasks. The company emphasized Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s strength in coding tasks. The model's reasoning capabilities allow it to analyze and modify complex codebases more effectively than previous versions and can process up to 128K tokens.
Anthropic also introduced Claude Code, an agentic coding tool, currently in limited research preview. The tool promises to revolutionize coding by automating parts of a developer's job. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is accessible across all Anthropic plans, including Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise, and via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Extended thinking mode is reserved for paid subscribers. Pricing is set at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. Anthropic stated they reduced unnecessary refusals by 45% compared to its predecessor. Recommended read:
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