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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/...

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

25 Mar 2025

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

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

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 …

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innokean.bsky.social

@innokean.bsky.social

27 Mar 2025

After trying out Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental 03-25 yesterday on a real couple of hours project it will be my go-to model rather than Claude from now on. It took me a large number of iterations, a false start but I managed to get something working in the end. For that problem nothing came close.