This guide has been updated. The Gemini 2.5 model family has been superseded by the Gemini 3.x generation, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini Omni, and Deep Think.
Please read the updated guide: Google Gemini 3.5 Complete Guide 2026
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This guide has been updated to cover the current Gemini 3.x model family. Please see the new guide at the link below.

This guide has been updated. The Gemini 2.5 model family has been superseded by the Gemini 3.x generation, including Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini Omni, and Deep Think.
Please read the updated guide: Google Gemini 3.5 Complete Guide 2026
Oct 27, 2026
Giotto, a Lausanne-based lab, unveiled Alto and Solo on October 27, 2026 and published its own benchmark tables. explainx.ai separates the vendor claims from what has been independently confirmed, and says how readers can check.
Oct 27, 2026
On October 27, 2026, OpenBMB released a 1.3B document-parsing model and a 2B quality judge under Apache 2.0. explainx.ai covers what the repo claims, how the numbers were measured, how to run it, and what to verify first.
Oct 26, 2026
Mirendil, the lab behind the one-researcher Mirendil-Base experiment, released its first model. Fern 0.1 supports up to 10 million tokens, but the announcement gives no benchmark numbers in text, and access is early-access only.