Google announced on Wednesday a series of updates of its family gems of large linguistic models, including a new line of products with competitive prices for low-cost artificial intelligence models, such as that of the Chinese rival Deepseek, writes Reuters.
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The technological giant offers several versions of gems that vary in price and performance. It has already offered an “light” variant known as flash, but its new flash-lite model is even cheaper.
On Wednesday, Google launched Gemini 2.0 flash for the general public, after previewing developers in December. He also launched Flash-Lite and launched a new version of his pro-test emblematic model.
Google has created Flash-Lite after receiving positive feedback on version 1.5 of Flash, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, technology director of Google’s Deepmind Laboratory in a press release. Gemini 2.0 Flash is more expensive than its predecessor.
The cost of developing the AI models and the cost of their use have been examined by investors in recent weeks, after Deepseek has revealed that it has spent less than 6 million for the final training course of a model.
Certain requests on Flash-Lite Gemini have a cost of $ 0.019 for each million processed data units. By comparison, the efficient version of the Openai emblematic model has a tariff of $ 0.075, and the accessible model Deepseek costs $ 0.014. However, Deepseek announces on his website that the price will increase five times from February 8, 2025.
