Google just released a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash. It builds on their fast, cost-efficient Flash model but adds hybrid reasoning capabilities.
The unique part is the controllable "thinking budget". Developers can use the API to set how much the model reasons, letting you fine-tune the balance between response quality, speed, and cost for your specific needs.
Key points:
🚀 Fast & Efficient: Still prioritizes speed and value. 🤔 Strong Reasoning: Competitive performance on complex tasks. ⚙️ Controllable Budget: Adjust the "thinking time" vs. cost/latency. 👁️ Multimodal & Long Context: Handles diverse inputs (text, image, audio, video) and 1M tokens. ☁️ Available via Google AI Studio & Vertex AI.
The Flash version of 2.5 series offers developers interesting new levers for optimizing AI applications.
Gemini 2.5 Flash looks super impressive! The speed and efficiency upgrades are just what users needed. Hats off to the team for pushing boundaries—can’t wait to try it out and see the magic in action!
This idea is very close to the realistic work model.
We all know that cost, quality, and efficiency form an impossible triangle, but we tend to emphasize different aspects in different scenarios. In the past, the collaboration between humans and language models was somewhat like relying on luck, with cost, quality, and efficiency being uncontrollable. Gemini gives us the possibility of regulation.
Awesome! I used Gemini 2.5 design my latest landing page. The results are truly impressive!
Started using it recently in my workflow, didn't really notice any difference in quality of the tasks. However, it has been on point so far.
