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Google launches Gemini 1.5 Flash and expands Gemini 1.5 Pro

Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash for lower-cost high-volume multimodal work, made Flash and an improved Gemini 1.5 Pro available in public preview across more than 200 countries, and opened access through AI Studio and Vertex AI.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM66confidence 99/100

Why it moved the index

A fast distilled model with a one-million-token context window and immediate global API and cloud availability reduced the cost and latency barriers to large-scale multimodal automation, while the existing Pro tier gained stronger planning and tool use.

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  1. R1
    Toward 66 · confidence 99

    New May 2024 exact efficient-model release and material deployment expansion; the moving Pro alias is linked, not duplicated.

    12 Aug 2026
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