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Re:We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models by victorbjorklund on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:51PM (#44303827)
Just google. They were behind. So they just dumped their prices to get a foot in the door. Now they are popular and can raise it to market prices.
Re:We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models by sodality2 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @05:11PM (#44304004)
I still don’t think there’s any real stickiness to using a Google model over any other model, with things like openrouter. So maybe for brand recognition alone.
Re:We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models by victorbjorklund on Thursday June 19, 2025 @12:56PM (#44320418)
Yea, but brand have some stickiness. Maybe not for the absolute nerds but lots of people just stick to what they are already using. Look at all the people just using ChatGPT because that is what they tried first.
Re:We're expanding our Gemini 2.5 family of models by sodality2 on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:02PM (#44332071)
True, but that’s a website, of which the set of them come with bespoke features. I’d assume someone who adopted the API knows it’s easier to switch because it’s an open standard.