Google’s Gemini AI is getting faster with its Flash upgrade

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company’s Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model.

With the upgrade to 1.5 Flash, you’ll see “across-the-board improvements in quality and latency, with especially noticeable improvements in reasoning and image understanding,” Amar Subramanya, VP of engineering for Gemini, says in a blog post. Gemini’s context window, or the amount of chunks of text that an AI model can process at once, is also getting quadrupled to 32K tokens, Subramanya says.

1.5 Flash, which was announced at Google I/O in May, will be available in the free version of Gemini on the web and mobile starting today, according to Subramanya.

Google is announcing a few other pieces of Gemini news, too. To help you find factual information on topics you’re researching, the company is going to show links to related content in Gemini for “fact-seeking prompts” starting today, Subramanya says. You can see the links by clicking on a gray arrow at the end of a paragraph.

In addition, Google will start rolling out Gemini “gradually” in Google Messages to users in the European Economic Area, UK, and Switzerland. And Gemini for teens will be available in over 40 languages “in the coming week.”