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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.
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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.
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- Simon Willison's Weblog: Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model and, from , a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 model ID is priced like this: Prompts less than 200,00 tokens: $1.25/million tokens for input, $10/million for output Prompts more than 200,000 tokens (up to the 1,048,576 max): $2.50/million for input, $15/million for output This is priced at around the same level as Gemini 1.5 Pro ($1.25/$5 for input/output below 128,000 tokens, $2.50/$10 above 128,000 tokens), is cheaper than GPT-4o for shorter prompts ($2.50/$10) and is cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet ($3/$15). Gemini 2.5 Pro is a reasoning model, and invisible reasoning tokens are included in the output token count. I just tried prompting "hi" and it charged me 2 tokens for input and 623 for output, of which 613 were "thinking" tokens. That still adds up to just 0.6232 cents (less than a cent) using my which I updated to support the new model just now. I released this morning adding support for the new model: llm install -U llm-gemini llm -m gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 hi Note that the model continues to be available for free under the previous gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 model ID: llm -m gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 hi The free tier is "used to improve our products", the paid tier is not. Rate limits for the paid model - from 150/minute and 1,000/day for tier 1 (billing configured), 1,000/minute and 50,000/day for Tier 2 ($250 total spend) and 2,000/minute and unlimited/day for Tier 3 ($1,000 total spend). Meanwhile the free tier continues to limit you to 5 requests per minute and 25 per day. Google are entirely in favour of 2.5. Via Tags: , , , , , , ,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maximilian Schreiner@THE DECODER
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Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro, its latest and "most intelligent" AI model to date, showcasing significant advancements in reasoning, coding proficiency, and multimodal functionalities. According to Google, these improvements come from combining a significantly enhanced base model with improved post-training techniques. The model is designed to analyze complex information, incorporate contextual nuances, and draw logical conclusions with unprecedented accuracy. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for Gemini Advanced users and on Google's AI Studio.
Google emphasizes the model's "thinking" capabilities, achieved through chain-of-thought reasoning, which allows it to break down complex tasks into multiple steps and reason through them before responding. This new model can handle multimodal input from text, audio, images, videos, and large datasets. Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Pro exhibits strong performance in coding tasks, surpassing Gemini 2.0 in specific benchmarks and excelling at creating visually compelling web apps and agentic code applications. The model also achieved 18.8% on Humanity’s Last Exam, demonstrating its ability to handle complex knowledge-based questions.
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