Google Expands Gemini 2.5 Pro Access with Competitive Pricing and Public Preview

The advanced AI model, featuring Dynamic Thinking and strong developer adoption, is now available with increased rate limits but faces transparency challenges.

• Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available in public preview, offering increased rate limits and pricing lower than some competitors like Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
• The model introduces Dynamic Thinking, a feature that adjusts reasoning effort based on prompt complexity, enhancing efficiency and performance.
• Gemini 2.5 Pro has seen an 80% surge in usage on Google AI Studio, reflecting strong developer interest and adoption.
• Despite its high performance on reasoning, coding, and math benchmarks, concerns persist over the lack of detailed technical documentation and ongoing hallucination issues.
• Google's $75 billion investment in AI infrastructure for 2025 underscores the high costs of developing and scaling advanced models like Gemini 2.5 Pro.

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