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Both models went live September 15 across the Gemini API, AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise private preview and consumer Search Live, covering 97 languages. Extended Thinking scores 82.6 on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index, 68.6% on τ-Voice agentic tasks, 35.1% on Sierra's banking benchmark and 97.7% on Big Bench Audio. The builder-relevant mechanic is background tool execution that doesn't interrupt the dialogue, plus early verbal cues like "Let me check that..." to cover latency. Pricing reported at $0.84/hour of input audio standard and $3.50/hour for Extended Thinking.
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Google launched agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google). Instead of scanning a video start to finish at a fixed sample rate, the model runs an internal loop deciding what to watch, at what speed, and through which channel: fra...
MAI-Transcribe-2 went to public preview September 3 through Azure Speech, first on FLEURS across 60 languages at 5.2% average WER and second on the independent Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Promotional price runs through December 31, 2026; the non-promotional rate is undisc...
Launched August 26, supporting more than 85 languages with accents and dialects, word-level timestamps, diarization for up to three speakers (more is experimental), custom vocabulary and jargon recognition, and automatic removal of filler words and self-corrections. Google cit...
GA and stable for production across the Gemini API, Enterprise, and Antigravity, and now the default in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search globally. Google pitches frontier-level intelligence at ~4x the speed of comparable models, priced at $1.50/$9 per 1M tokens, 1M-token c...
As of August 5, anyone pinned to the alias gets a different model. 82.9% on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech benchmark versus 75.7% for 1.0, against GPT-Realtime-2.1 at 79.1% and Gemini 3.1 Flash at 69.5%, with first-audio response down from 1.25s to roughly 0.70s and med...
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image) generates images in as little as four seconds and is live in AI Studio, the Gemini API, AI Mode, and the Gemini app. Gemini Omni Flash entered public preview for video generation and conversational editing at $0.10 per second, m...
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