Gemini 2.5 Flash Released as Low-Latency Reasoning Model for Developer APIs

Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash, an experimental model in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API designed for speed and cost efficiency while retaining reasoning capability. The model supports a 1M token context window and is positioned as the budget-conscious counterpart to Gemini 2.5 Pro. Developers noted substantially faster time-to-first-token compared to Pro, making it suitable for interactive and agentic applications.