The result is a streaming experience that's much closer to that of a game running on a local machine, according to testers. Even when the actual round-trip time between input and server response ...

For those already familiar with Google's models, the new Gemini 2.5 family is better at memory, reasoning, and responses, with improved performance and accuracy across the board.

The company claims its on-device model outperforms larger competitors like Phi-3-mini and Mistral-7B, while the server model rivals DBRX-Instruct and GPT-3.5-Turbo.