Red Hat announced jointly-engineered, integrated and supported images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Google is rolling out an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro model with significantly enhanced coding capabilities.
This enhanced model offers a deep understanding of code paired with robust reasoning capabilities. This combination paves the way for more intuitive development workflows, ultimately simplifying the building process.
The new Gemini 2.5 Pro offers:
- Better coding: The updated Gemini 2.5 Pro's robust code comprehension and advanced reasoning capabilities will unlock more natural and efficient development workflows, ultimately simplifying the building process. This model particularly excels in front-end and UI development, helping developers build beautiful, functional web apps more efficiently.
- Top of leaderboards: This isn't just an incremental tweak. The updated model now leads the WebDevArena leaderboard, demonstrating superior capability in coding. It also continues to build on its strong foundation in native multimodality and long context; it has state-of-the-art performance in video understanding, with a score of 84.8% on the VideoMME benchmark.
- Available today: The improved model will seamlessly replace the current Gemini 2.5 Pro in the Gemini API across Google AI Studio and Vertex AI as well as the Gemini App, making these advanced coding capabilities immediately available to develop.
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