Google on Tuesday introduced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Professional Preview (I/O version), an up to date model of its flagship Gemini 2.5 Professional AI mannequin that the corporate claims tops various extensively used benchmarks.
Gemini 2.5 Professional Preview (I/O version) is obtainable through the Gemini API and Google’s Vertex AI and AI Studio platforms, and is priced the identical because the Gemini 2.5 Professional mannequin it successfully replaces. It’s additionally in Google’s Gemini chatbot app for the online and for cell gadgets.
The mannequin’s launch comes forward of Google’s annual I/O developer convention (therefore the “I/O edition” designation), the place Google is predicted to unveil a bunch of fashions, in addition to AI-powered instruments and platforms. The corporate is competing fiercely for mindshare and marketshare within the cutthroat AI race; rivals like OpenAI and xAI are on the cusp of releasing fashions which might be anticipated to be extremely performant.
In response to Google, Gemini 2.5 Professional Preview (I/O version) has “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and constructing interactive net apps. The mannequin can also be higher at duties like code transformation — that’s, modifying a bit of code to attain a particular objective — and code modifying, the corporate says.
In a weblog put up, Google notes that Gemini 2.5 Professional Preview (I/O version) leads the WebDev Area Leaderboard, a benchmark measuring a mannequin’s skill to create aesthetically pleasing and purposeful net apps. Gemini 2.5 Professional Preview (I/O version) additionally has state-of-the-art efficiency in video understanding, reaching a rating of 84.8% on one fashionable benchmark, VideoMME.
“For developers already using Gemini 2.5 Pro, this new version will not only improve coding performance but will also address key developer feedback including reducing errors in function calling and improving function calling trigger rates,” wrote Google in its weblog put up. “By default, the model has a real taste for aesthetic web development while maintaining its steerability.”
