It's available now as an option in Google AI Studio and Google Gemini.
It's "experimental", which means that it is not fully released. In particular, the "experimental" tag means that it is subject to a different privacy policy and that they reserve the right to train on your prompts.
2.0 Pro is also still "experimental" so I agree with GP that it's pretty odd that they are "releasing" the next version despite never having gotten to fully releasing the previous version.
Re:Gemini 2.5
by throwaway13337 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @01:43PM
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Thanks. I think my post lacked clarity of what I was talking about. I meant that most people care about API access to use with their favorite editor. It's a big limiter with grok, for example.
But I did mingle that with my knowledge of google's history of releasing without releasing these models which, as you point out, isn't true with this release.
I don't see it on the API price list:
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
I can imagine that it's not so interesting to most of us until we can try it with cursor.
I look forward to doing so when it's out. That Aider bench mixed with the speed and a long context window that their other models are known for could be a great mix. But we'll have to wait and see.
More generally, it woud be nice for these kinds of releases to also add speed and context window as a separate benchmark. Or somehow include it in the score. A model that is 90% as good as the best but 10x faster is quite a bit more useful.
These might be hard to mix to an overall score but they're critical for understanding usefulness.