Shrestha Basu Mallick@shresbmFebruary 5, 2025
Google's full release of Gemini 2.0 Flash is a great thing for the voice AI ecosystem.
Up to this point, almost every production voice AI agent has used GPT-4o.
Voice AI apps need an LLM with fast TTFT, good instruction following, reliable function calling, and natural conversation dynamics. GPT-4o was ahead on all of these attributes by a wide enough margin that using any other LLM mostly didn't make sense.
Gemini 2.0 Flash is competitive with GPT-4o on all four of those attributes. Now we have two excellent models for voice AI. Competition is good!
Shrestha Basu Mallick@shresbm⚡️Gemini 2.0 Flash is now GA
- Significant performance improvements over 1.5 Pro and Flash
- Simplified pricing - now the price for < 128K and > 128K tokens is the same
🔦 We are also showcasing Flash-Lite Preview and Pro Experimental