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Artificial intelligence · 2025

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google's thinking model tops the leaderboards with a million-token context.

Released in March 2025, Gemini 2.5 Pro combined built-in reasoning with long context and took first place on the LMArena leaderboard. Its Deep Think mode later scored gold-medal level at the IMO.

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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)