Never underestimate Google!
The new Gemini 2.5 Pro model just changed everything in the AI race.
Look at what it created with just a few sentences of prompt:
Google is no longer playing catch-up in the LLM race. They’re ahead now.
After many of you had been looking down on Gemini for so long, now look…
Back to the #1 spot they undisputedly were only a few years ago, before what happened in 2022.
Not like Gemini 2.0 was even bad, but this is a massive massive step-up from that.
Reason, math, coding… it’s either better or seriously competing with the others at almost everything.
Everybody was praising Grok just a while ago but this Gemini 2.5 has already surpassed it in major areas.
1 million context window and 2 million coming very soon — and as always with multimodal processing for text, images, audio, and video…
Complex multi-step thinking is here…
Look at a puzzle someone used to find out just how good this new model is:
How many of us can even figure out this pattern in less than a minute?
This is complex reasoning stuff that would destroy regular models like GPT 4.5 — but Gemini took just 15 seconds to figure this out. Correctly.
Meanwhile rivals like Claude 3.7 Thinking and Grok spent well over a minute before they could get the answer.
At this point we’ve now clearly got beyond the traditional next-token prediction models — already “traditional” in 2025.
It’s also apparently insanely good at generative the perfect SVG icon for you with high precision.
And all this for immensely generous prices.
In OpenAI Playground you pay for token usage — completely free in Gemini AI Studio.
And there’s still a free trial for actual API usage.
The paid tier is already looking like it would be much cheaper than OpenAI’s o3-mini — and lightyears cheaper than the o3 monster.
Gemini 2.0 is already around 10 times cheaper than o3-mini and I doubt 2.5 would have a price that would be significantly higher.
With everything we’ve been seing in recent months it’s just so clear that OpenAI is no longer miles ahead of the rest anymore.
They will never again get the sort of undisputed dominance they got when ChatGPT first came out.
Now Google’s showing us that they were never really out — and unlike OpenAI they won’t be struggling nearly as much with losses and fundraising. Whatever losses from AI gets massively offset with the avalanche of billions from Ad money.
Way easier for them to keep prices ridiculously cheap and generous like they’ve been doing. A massive long-term financial advantage.
The relatively underwhelming release of GPT 4.5 also didn’t help matters for OpenAI. Maybe it was even supposed to be the ultimate GPT 5, but it would have a massive failure to call it that.
Once again we continue to see the shift from “raw” LLMs to thinking agents with chain-of-thought prompting.
Google is back, Gemini 2.5 is fast, and once again a major change in the dynamics of the AI race.
Redefining what’s possible and setting new expectations for the future.