Google rolls out cheaper AI model as industry scrutinizes costs
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Google has unveiled Flash-Lite 2, a budget-friendly model capable of generating captions for approximately 40,000 images at a minimal cost through its AI Studio. This model is part of the Gemini 2.0 series enhancements aimed at meeting increasing demands for affordable AI solutions, especially in light of competition from Chinese firm DeepSeek. The Gemini lineup now includes various models designed for different performance levels and pricing, appealing to developers who need high-volume and multimodal capabilities, with features like a million-token context window and upcoming improvements in image generation and text-to-speech.
Flash-Lite 2 can generate captions for around 40,000 unique images at a cost of less than a dollar on Google AI Studio's paid tier.
The Flash series of models is popular with developers as a powerful workhorse model, optimal for high-volume, high-frequency tasks at scale and highly capable of multimodal reasoning across vast amounts of information with a context window of 1 million tokens.
Read at InfoWorld
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