Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash that is faster and cheaper than Gemini 1.5 Pro. Gemini 1.5 Flash also has a context window of up to 1 million tokens, it can process vast amounts of information, including:

• 1 hour of video 

• 11 hours of audio 

• over 700,000 words

This substantial capacity makes Gemini 1.5 Flash particularly well-suited for real-time and context-intensive applications, enabling seamless processing of large volumes of information.

Intended Use

• Rapid text generation and completion

• Real-time conversation and chatbot applications

• Quick information retrieval and summarization

• Multimodal understanding (text, images, audio, video)

• Code generation and analysis

• Task planning and execution

Limitations

• May sacrifice some accuracy for speed compared to larger models

• Performance on highly specialized or technical tasks may vary

• Could exhibit biases present in its training data

• Limited by the knowledge cutoff of its training data

• Cannot access real-time information or browse the internet

• May struggle with tasks requiring deep logical reasoning or complex mathematical computations

Citation

https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/flash/