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Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance


Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash AI models for enterprises while introducing cost-efficient Flash-Lite to challenge OpenAI's market dominance.

Google moved decisively to strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence arms race Monday, declaring its most powerful Gemini 2.5 models ready for enterprise production while unveiling a new ultra-efficient variant designed to undercut competitors on cost and speed. The announcements represent Google’s most assertive challenge yet to OpenAI’s market leadership, offering enterprises a comprehensive suite of AI tools spanning from premium reasoning capabilities to budget-conscious automation. The newly introduced Flash-Lite variant sacrifices some intelligence for dramatic cost savings, targeting use cases like classification and translation where speed and volume matter more than sophisticated reasoning.

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