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Gemini 3.0 Flash Preview: 1/4 cost of Pro, but ~as smart, retakes Pareto Frontier
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Google launched Gemini 3 Flash, a pro-grade reasoning model with flash latency, supporting tool calling and multimodal IO, available via multiple platforms including Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. It offers competitive pricing at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens, with context windows up to 1M tokens. Benchmarks show Gemini 3 Flash rivals or outperforms larger models like GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro in agentic, coding, and reasoning tasks, validated by ARC-AGI-2, SWE-bench, LMArena, and Arena benchmarks. Despite some tradeoffs like high token use and hallucination rates, it is cost-effective overall. Key figures include Sundar Pichai, Jeff Dean, and Demis Hassabis who publicly celebrated this achievement. The model's tool calling capabilities were demonstrated with 100 tools in a live demo.
OpenAI buys Jony Ive's io for $6.5b, LMArena lands $100m seed from a16z
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OpenAI confirmed a partnership with Jony Ive to develop consumer hardware. LMArena secured a $100 million seed round from a16z. Mistral launched a new code model fine-tune. Google DeepMind announced multiple updates at Google I/O 2024, including over a dozen new models and 20 AI products. Key highlights include the release of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini Diffusion, featuring advanced multimodal reasoning, coding, and math capabilities, and integration of Gemini in Google Chrome as an AI browsing assistant. Deep Think enhanced reasoning mode and Project Astra improvements were also introduced, focusing on voice output, memory, and computer control for a universal AI assistant.