Google announced a price cut for its fast AI model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, reducing input token costs to $0.075 per million tokens and output token costs to $0.30 per million tokens, representing a decrease of up to 78%. This move is highly beneficial for developers, particularly for scenarios such as summarization, classification, and multimodal understanding. The new API and AI studio from Google have enhanced PDF analysis capabilities, supporting the understanding of PDFs that include graphical and image content, and expanded language support to cover over 100 languages.

Google's AI assistant Gemini has released a major update with the introduction of Gemini 1.5 Flash, significantly enhancing performance, reasoning capabilities, and image understanding. The free version's context window has been expanded from 8K to 32K tokens, allowing for longer conversations. A new file upload feature enables users to handle complex tasks via Google Drive or by directly uploading files. Relevant content links are displayed in responses to improve information exploration convenience. A double-check function has been introduced to verify response accuracy through Google Search.