Google drops 'stronger' and 'significantly improved' experimental models
Google is continuing its aggressive Gemini updates as it races towards its 2.0 model. The company today announced a smaller variant of Gemini 1.5, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, alongside a “significantly improved” Gemini 1.5 Flash and a “stronger” Gemini 1.5 Pro. These show increased performance against many internal benchmarks, the company says, with “huge gains” with 1.5 Flash across the board and a 1.5 Pro that is much better at math, coding, and complex prompts.
Latest Updates on Gemini Models
Today, we are rolling out three experimental models:
- A new smaller variant, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
- A stronger Gemini 1.5 Pro model (better on coding & complex prompts)
- A significantly improved Gemini 1.5 Flash model
Try them on https://t.co/fBrh6UGKz7. Gemini 1.5 Flash is the best in the world for developers right now.
Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash — the lightweight version of Gemini 1.5 — in May. The Gemini 1.5 family of models was built to handle long contexts and can reason over fine-grained information from 10M and more tokens. This allows the models to process high-volume multimodal inputs including documents, video, and audio.
Improved Variants
Today, Google is making available an “improved version” of a smaller 8 billion parameter variant of Gemini 1.5 Flash. Meanwhile, the new Gemini 1.5 Pro shows performance gains on coding and complex prompts and serves as a “drop-in replacement” to its previous model released in early August.
The “newest experimental iteration” of both Gemini 1.5 Flash and Pro feature 1 million token limits and are available to test for free via Google AI Studio and Gemini API, and also soon through the Vertex AI experimental endpoint.
Feedback and Usage
Beginning Sept. 3, Google will automatically reroute requests to the new model and will remove the older model from Google AI Studio and the API to “avoid confusion with keeping too many versions live at the same time.” Google DeepMind researchers call Gemini 1.5’s scale “unprecedented” among contemporary LLMs.
Early feedback has been varied with users praising the updates for solid improvements while some critics call it "terrible" and "lazy." Stay informed about the latest updates and advancements in AI by testing the new Gemini models offered by Google.
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