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Google rolls out budget-friendly Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, opens 2.5 Flash and Pro to all
Google has introduced a new addition to its Gemini AI model line-up — the Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. According to Google, this new AI model can deliver high performance at the lowest cost and fastest speeds yet. Alongside the new model, the company has announced the general availability of the Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro models to all says that Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is its most affordable and fastest model in the 2.5 family. It has been built to handle large volumes of latency-sensitive tasks such as translation, classification, and reasoning at a lower computational cost. Compared to its predecessor, 2.0 Flash-Lite, the new model is said to deliver improved accuracy and quality across coding, maths, science, reasoning, and multimodal benchmarks. 'It excels at high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks like translation and classification, with lower latency than 2.0 Flash-Lite and 2.0 Flash on a broad sample of prompts,' says Google. advertisementGoogle highlights that despite being lightweight, 2.5 Flash-Lite comes with a full suite of advanced capabilities. These include support for multimodal inputs, a 1 million-token context window, integration with tools like Google Search and code execution, and the flexibility to modulate computational thinking based on budget. According to the company, these features make the Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ideal for developers looking to balance efficiency with robust AI 2.5 Flash-Lite availability
The Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite model is currently available in preview via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google has also integrated customised versions of 2.5 Flash-Lite and Flash into its core products like Search, expanding their reach beyond developers to everyday 2.5 Flash and Pro models now available to allIn addition to introducing Flash-Lite, Google has also announced that its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro models are now stable and generally available. These models were previously accessible to a select group of developers and organisations for early production to Google, companies like Snap, SmartBear, and creative tools provider Spline have already integrated these models into their workflows with encouraging results. Now that Flash and Pro are fully open, developers can use them in production-grade applications with greater the stable and preview models can be accessed through Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app.
