Google releases production-ready Gemini 1.5 for developers

Google has released two stable versions of its Gemini 1.5 application programming interface (API) models for developers, promising greater performance and lower app production costs.

Google announced the launch of stable versions of Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-002) and Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-002) on Sept. 24. Compared with the previous 001 models, the new production-ready Gemini models have displayed significant improvements in code generation, math, reasoning and video analysis. 

Gemini 1.5 Pro lowers financial barriers for developers

Google reduced the price of its production-ready Gemini 1.5 Pro model by more than 50% while claiming three times higher rate limits and lower latency than the older experimental model releases.

According to Google’s release notes, both Gemini 1.5 models offer significant gains in factuality and reduce model hallucinations, instruction following, multilingual understanding in 102 languages, SQL generation and audio and document understanding.

Google reduced the summarization lengths for both models and advised chat-based product developers with options to increase the API’s conversational capabilities.

From Oct. 1, Gemini 1.5 Pro API prices on prompts less than 128,000 tokens will be reduced to 64% for input tokens, 52% for output tokens and 64% for incremental cached tokens. 

“To make it even easier for developers to build with Gemini, we are increasing the paid tier rate limits for 1.5 Flash to 2,000 RPM and increasing 1.5 Pro to 1,000 RPM, up from 1,000 and 360, respectively,” the announcement read.

Google launches experimental version of Gemini 1.5 Flash 

Google also announced the launch of Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a smaller experimental version of 1.5 Flash with lower benchmark numbers. This update includes significant performance increases across both text and multimodal use cases. 

All versions are currently available at Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. 

Meanwhile, Google’s biggest artificial intelligence competitor, OpenAI, has begun rolling out its “Advanced Voice” feature to select ChatGPT users.

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode allows for faster and more intuitive humanlike communication with AI. As part of the new feature, OpenAI unveiled five new voices, Arbor, Maple, SXol, Spruce and Vale, which come as additions to the existing Breeze, Juniper, Cove and Ember voice options.