> Don’t let the “flash” name fool you

I think it's bad naming on google's part. "flash" implies low quality, fast but not good enough. I get less negative feeling looking at "mini" models.

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pietz 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting. Flash suggests more power to me than Mini. I never use gpt-5-mini in the UI whereas Flash appears to be just as good as Pro just a lot faster.

	▲	taytus 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Im in between :) Mini - small, incomplete, not good enough Flash - good, not great, fast, might miss something.

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nemonemo 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Fair point. Asked Gemini to suggest alternatives, and it suggested Gemini Velocity, Gemini Atom, Gemini Axiom (and more). I would have liked `Gemini Velocity`.

	▲	behnamoh 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I like Anthropic's approach: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus. Haiku is pretty capable still and the name doesn't make me not wanna use it. But Flash is like "Flash Sale". It might still be a great model but my monkey brain associates it with "cheap" stuff.