On Tuesday, Google announced the expansion of its Gemini 2.5 AI lineup by officially releasing the 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash models as stable and widely accessible. The company also introduced a preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, highlighting it as the quickest and most affordable model in the 2.5 series so far.
Stable Release: Gemini 2.5 Pro & Flash
Tulsee Doshi, Senior Director of Product Management for Gemini, credited user insights for refining the 2.5 Pro and Flash releases. Over recent weeks, organizations including Snap, SmartBear, Spline, and Rooms have already put these models into live use.
Preview Launch: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Google rolled out the Flash-Lite preview, which surpasses its 2.0 predecessor in benchmarks covering programming, mathematical problem-solving, scientific analysis, logical reasoning, and handling multiple input formats.
Designed to handle large volumes of data with minimal delay, Flash-Lite responds faster than the earlier 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite models, making it ideal for tasks like translation and text classification.
It accommodates up to one million tokens, supports varied input types, hooks into tools like Google Search and code execution, and allows dynamic scaling of compute resources to match budget needs.
Availability
You can access the Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite preview and the stable 2.5 Pro and Flash models through Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, or the Gemini app, and Google has also embedded customized Flash and Flash-Lite versions within its Search platform.