Google Announces Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-8B-Exp-0924 Models

Google has announced the release of two updated production-ready Gemini models: Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-8B-Exp-0924. These models are designed for general performance across a wide range of text, code, and multimodal tasks

Google has announced two new production-ready Gemini models, available for free via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, and for larger organizations and Google Cloud customers, they are also available on Vertex AI. These models are designed for general performance across a wide range of text, code, and multimodal tasks.

The two models are Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-8B-Exp-0924. They are designed for a variety of tasks, including synthesizing information from large PDFs, answering questions about extensive code repositories, and creating content from hour-long videos.

Some of the key improvements in these models include the ability to generate more concise responses, with default output lengths 5-20% shorter than previous models, making them easier to use and more cost-efficient.

The models are also available for free via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, and for larger organizations and Google Cloud customers, they are also available on Vertex AI. Developers can access these models to build a variety of applications, leveraging the 2 million token long context window and multimodal capabilities of Gemini 1.5 Pro.

Google highlights its focus on building safe and reliable models, with improvements to the model's ability to follow user instructions while balancing safety. The company will continue to offer a suite of safety filters that developers may apply to Google’s models, allowing them to determine the configuration best suited for their use case.