Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are Generally Available

Google today released its Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash large language models in stable alongside mobile and light mode support in Google AI Studio.

“Building on the momentum from Google I/O, we’re announcing important updates to the Gemini API and Google AI Studio,” Google’s Logan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick write in the announcement post. “We’re incredibly excited to see what you build with these new models and are committed to building towards a world-class developer experience. You can get started with Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro free of charge in Google AI Studio.”

Google first released Gemini Pro 1.5 for early testing in February. But aside from its availability in stable, the big news here is that Google now offers paid Gemini plans in addition to the free tier via Google AI Studio. For Gemini Pro 1.5, customers get 2 requests per minute, 32,000 tokens per minute, and 50 requests per day for free, with your data used to improve the product. But paid customers get much higher rate limits and their data isn’t used.

Gemini 1.5 Flash was announced earlier this month at Google I/O. It’s a multimodal model focused on speed and optimized for low latency, narrow tasks. But now it’s out of preview and Google has increased its rate limit to 1000 requests per minute and removing the request per day limit. And starting June 17, Google will allow customers to tune Gemini 1.5 Flash for specific tasks using Google AI Studio or directly via the Gemini API for free.

As for Google AI Studio, this web-based AI tool for developers now supports light and dark app modes and works on mobile devices so you can “quickly test multi-modal prompts on-the-go.” A need we’ve all had, I’m sure.