Google will cut free Gemini app users to Flash-Lite on October 9 and pull Pro from its $4.99 AI Plus plan, making $19.99 AI Pro the cheapest plan with Pro. The same plan picks up Deep Think, so teams on free or Plus seats now have to decide, person by person, which model the work needs.
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Google will run free Gemini only on Flash-Lite, its smallest model, from October 9, a dev.to post reports, citing Martincid.com. Teams that summarise on the free tier have one anecdote to judge quality by, and it found the output accurate but missing some nuance.
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Google has finished rolling out Gemini Notebook's mobile Live Chat to 100% of Google AI Pro users, according to its rollout announcement. Teams already on Pro can start a mobile trial over their notebook sources now instead of waiting for their accounts to be reached.
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Google will retire Gemini's Gems on November 17, 2026, and auto-migrate each one to a cross-task "skill." Anyone who built a custom assistant keeps the work but loses the sidebar and picks it with a slash instead.
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On September 2 the per-feature daily counts that let teams plan capacity become five-hour and weekly compute windows, with free users promised standard limits and paying ones more, neither stated as a figure.
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The @messages connector turned up at the bottom of Connected Apps in version 1.116.5.889 of the Mac app. It can send plain text to any contact and search the local conversation history, under five documented limits.
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Google has published a price for frontier-tier access aimed at technical staff, and the figure a manager has to defend is per person per month, on a plan whose usage limits are quoted as multiples of a Pro allowance the company has not spelled out.
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On Alphabet's Q1 2026 call Sundar Pichai put cloud backlog above $460 billion, close to six years of cloud revenue at the current rate, while giving Gemini Enterprise's paid user base as a growth rate alone.
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Google positions one live model for high-volume conversation and the other for reasoning that continues while the user is still talking. The product page describes both without performance measurements, token costs or latency figures.
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Google has put video continuation in front of paying Gemini subscribers with a 10-second context window and a 40-second ceiling, which is enough for a short spot but only if you understand what the model can still see by the fourth segment.
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Google's milestone post reports 63% voice usage, more than 150 million generated images a day and 100 million iOS users, with nothing attached that a business could buy, which means the exposure lands on whoever owns the content.
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash generates video with audio and accepts revisions as plain sentences, with the edit chain held server-side by interaction id. The ceiling on a finished clip is 40 seconds, and no eval came with it.
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Omni 1.1 Flash pushes generated sequences to 40 seconds in 10-second increments and adds a cheap 360p draft tier, which turns a demo into something a content team can schedule. The 4K export rate is still unpublished.
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Google put the same 3.7 Flash behind its API, Vertex, Gemini Enterprise and AI Mode in Search on August 13. The payoff is fewer evaluations to run, not a new capability tier.
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