Google has now experimentally released Gemini 2.5 Pro.

As is standard, they claim it #beats all the benchmarks.

In my initial testing it's a very good model, definitely on par with GPT 4.5. It's a reasoning model, but runs very quickly, and shows you the chain of thought, unlike OpenAI models. I would consider using it for my daily driver. Biggest issue is that it does extensive thinking even when not really necessary (but as discussed it's quick so that matters less).

See more details at https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/.

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