Notes on putting the new Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces - I'm impressed: it did great on image recognition, audio transcription and returning bounding boxes for creatures in a complex photograph, plus it rendered a pretty solid SVG of a pelican on a bicycle! simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...
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Updated my blog post to note a couple of extra things I had missed: the output token limit of 64,000 is a huge upgrade from the 8,192 of previous Geminis, and the knowledge cut-off date of January 2025 is an improvement on Gemini 2.0’s cut-off date of August 2024
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Added a new section about Gemini 2.5 Pro for code: I'm VERY impressed after my coding experiments so far, it's tackling some sophisticated problems that start with 100,000+ tokens of existing codebase simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...
simonwillison.netPutting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its pacesThere’s a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems”. It’s already …
Thanks for the notes! Ran it through 40 minutes of @appstories.macstories.net and thoroughly impressed with the transcription quality. Timestamps seem accurate too.