
Ars Technica
July 21, 20261 min read
5 Flash, and it's not slowing down. The company revealed three new AI models today , including its first version of Gemini geared toward cybersecurity. 5 Pro, which was supposed to launch in June.
5 Flash, which was the star of the show at I/O , has already been deprecated. 6 Flash. Google makes the usual claims about this model—it's marginally more capable and better at coding, and it has great multimodal features.
5 release. 5 Flash didn't appear to live up to Google's promises around code generation. Perhaps that is simply a consequence of Google's intense focus on efficiency as businesses have started to fret over the cost of AI tokens.
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