I'm going to assume they are saving on inference by rolling it out faster.

Havoc a day ago | parent | next [-]

You'd think so but they've been updating gemini.google.com really slowly. Up until couple weeks ago it still had gemini 3.1 - which is a February release model.

So this is an actual change of pace

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willis936 a day ago | parent [-]

What do you mean? I have gemini hydrogen flash and thinking and 3.1 pro on my workspace account today. I'll just use another provider with less slowrolling of frontier and better tool usage.

	▲	Havoc 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh you’re Right. Just checked - same. 3.1 still on there. Clearly misremember

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n_u a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Why do you think rolling out faster -> more inference savings?

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rpdillon a day ago | parent | next [-]

If one of the dimensions it improves upon is inference cost per unit of work, then switching over to it would save money, and the sooner you do that, the more you save.

	▲	tosapple a day ago \| parent [-]
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xeshuman a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Smaller model, likely.

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WASDx a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If it's more efficient than 3.8 that it replaces.

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jychang a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Here's an explaination of what's going on in the backend.

Alibaba is forced to do this stuff: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/al...

Meanwhile Deepseek: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45643163#45652636