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Google announces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter-weight AI model

Even though it's a lighter-weight AI model, its still highly capable

By Dean Daley
Google announces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter-weight AI model

At Google I/O 2024, the company expanded its Gemini family of models, introducing Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter-weight version of the 1.5 Pro model that’s designed to be fast and efficient.

Even though 1.5 Flash is lightweight, Google has optimized it for high-volume and high-frequency tasks at scale. 1.5 Flash is adept at summarization, chat applications, image and video captioning, and data extraction from long documents, tables, and more. Further, 1.5 Flash can process a lot of information and offers impressive quality for its size.

Like the 1.5 Pro, 1.5 Flash is available in a public preview with a 1 million token context window in the Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

When talking about AI, a token is a unit of measure used to describe processing power; for instance, when AI is processing text, it will divide a sentence into tokens, where a word or punctuation mark is considered a token.

Find all of our Google I/O 2024 coverage here.

Update 05/14/2024 3:35pm ET: Removed mention of the 2 million token context window waitlist for 1.5 Flash as it’s only available for 1.5 Pro at this time.

Image credit: Google

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