Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Feature Launch Announcement

April 17, 2025, 3:20 pm

Two submissions cover the same product update from Google’s Gemini AI family. Both stories, using an identical title, detail the rollout of the Gemini 2.5 Flash feature within the Gemini app, emphasizing enhanced performance and functionality. The duplicate coverage reinforces the importance of this update in broadening Google’s AI capabilities and improving user experience, confirming the feature’s availability and signaling its significance in Google’s evolving AI ecosystem.

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techinasia.com / OpenAI launches Flex API to cut costs for low-priority AI tasks

The launch comes as rivals like Google push cheaper AI models, such as Gemini 2.5 Flash, into the market.

venturebeat.com / Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash introduces ‘thinking budgets’ that cut AI costs by 600% when turned down

Google's new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model introduces adjustable "thinking budgets" that let businesses pay only for the reasoning power they need, balancing advanced capabilities with cost efficiency.

simonwillison.net / Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash

Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Gemini's latest model is Gemini 2.5 Flash, available in (paid) preview as gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while still prioritizing...

arstechnica.com / Gemini 2.5 Flash comes to the Gemini app as Google seeks improve “dynamic thinking”

Gemini 2.5 Flash is ready for you to try in the Gemini app, but it's starting as a preview.

googleblog.com / Gemini 2.5 Flash

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technologyreview.com / A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons

Google DeepMind’s latest update to a top Gemini AI model includes a dial to control how much the system “thinks” through a response. The new feature is ostensibly designed to save money for developers, but it also concedes a problem: Reasoning models, the tech world’s new obsession, are...


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