Google Surprisingly Rolling Out Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) To Free Users

In a alternatively unexpected move, Google announced Saturday that it is rolling retired nan latest 2.5 Pro (experimental) exemplary to each (free) Gemini app users.

Gemini 2.5 Pro was conscionable announced on Tuesday arsenic Google’s “most intelligent AI model” that integrates reasoning capabilities alternatively than offering it arsenic a abstracted variant. It is presently successful nan “experimental” phase, but has support for a number of features, including apps/Extensions, record uploads, and (as of today) Canvas.

At launch, it was only disposable for Gemini Advanced subscribers, pinch Google One AI Premium coming successful astatine $19.99 per period (in nan US).

On Saturday afternoon, Google announced that it has “decided to rotation retired Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) to each Gemini users, opening today.”

It’s already seeing wide readiness connected gemini.google.com, and coming soon to nan Android and iOS apps. Both precocious sewage amended astatine remembering what exemplary you selected.

Google says it wants “to get [its] astir intelligent exemplary into much people’s hands asap.” Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is presently astatine nan apical of nan LMArena leaderboard, while starring connected mathematics and subject benchmarks. Google is besides moving connected improving coding performance.

Looking ahead, it’s not clear whether Google will make nan unchangeable type of 2.5 Pro free to each Gemini users, aliases whether today’s move is conscionable for nan testing phase. Before this, it seemed for illustration 2.0 Flash Thinking and 2.0 Flash were going to beryllium nan free offerings.

That said, Google has been making much and much features disposable for each users successful caller months, including Deep Research, Gems, Saved info, document upload/analysis, and generating images of people. The main characteristic for Advanced subscribers is simply a 1 cardinal token discourse window, arsenic good arsenic higher usage limits.

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