Forget DeepSeek - Gemini 2.0 Flash is a wrecking ball to LLM pricing

It's like yesterday we were freaking out over the leap forward we saw from DeepSeek R1 - a model developed with relatively few resources and an excellent cost/quality ratio. Its cost-effective performance reportedly caused a panic within companies like Meta.

Google's release of Gemini 2.0 Flash to the public could be an even greater disruption. Its design as a "workhorse model" for high-volume tasks, its multimodal reasoning capabilities, its substantial 1M token context window, and, most importantly, its pricing - make it an attractive choice for any LLM application that requires quality and scalability. And the cost-optimized Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is somehow even cheaper.

I hear industry leaders like Sam Altman give lip service to democratizing AI, but I think this is what that actually looks like. It's great to see real competition heating up in the foundational LLM models. With any luck, LLM models is not going to be a winner-take-all business.

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