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Re:Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything by vrosas on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:45PM (#42958391)
Spoiler: every model is deeply, deeply subsidized. At least Google's is subsidized by a real business with revenue, not VC's staring at the clock.
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Re:Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything by panarky on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:05PM (#42958952)
It's cheap because it's a Flash model, far smaller and much less compute for inference, runs on TPUs instead of GPUs.
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