> Google essentially only has Preview models! The last GA is 2.5. As a developer, I can either use an outdated model or have zero insurances that the model doesn't get discontinued within weeks.

What's funny is that there is this common meme at Google: you can either use the old, unmaintained tool that's used everywhere, or the new beta tools that doesn't quite do what you want.

Not quite the same, but it did remind me of it.

▲ fhrow4484 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://static0.anpoimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...

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peab 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

such a great meme

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CactusBlue 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds of Unity features

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yieldcrv 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Preview Road (only choice, and last preview was deprecated without warning)

	▲	goodmythical an hour ago \| parent [-]
		where's my nightly road? Who knows, I might arrive before I depart.

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madeofpalk an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

oh is this about my workplace?

▲ L-four 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gmail was in beta for 5 years, until 2009.

▲ metalliqaz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"Gemini, translate 'beta' from Googlespeak to English."

"Ok, here is the translation:"

    'we don't want to offer support'

	▲	solarkraft 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just like any Google product then.
	▲	cyanydeez 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nah, it's "We dont want to provide a consistent model that we'll be stuck with supporting for a decade because it just takes up space; until we run everyone out of business, we can't afford to have customers tying their systems to any given model" Really, the economics makes no sense, but that's what they're doing. You can't have a consistent model because it'll pin their hardware & software, and that costs money.

▲ m_fayer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My 5ish years in the mines of Android native back in the day are not years I recall fondly. Never change, Google.

▲ jakub_g 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Everything is beta or deprecated."

▲ cyanydeez 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The business models of LLMs don't include any garuntee, and some how that's fine for a burgeoning decade of trillions of dollars of consumption.

Sure, makes total sense guys.