Google adds a $100/month AI Ultra plan aimed at developers, tech workers, and creative pros, and cuts its top Ultra subscription from $250/month to $200/month
ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has introduced a cheaper AI Ultra plan at $100 a month. — The full Ultra Plan is now $50 cheaper at $200 a month.
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Discussion
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@artemr
Artem Russakovskii
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New from Google I/O: In the coming days paid Google AI Pro subscribers in select countries will get a YouTube Premium Lite individual plan at no extra charge. Here's the list of countries: https://support.google.com/.... Yes, US is included. YouTube Premium Lite vs Premium: [imag…
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Rohan Shah
Rohan Shah
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Big updates from Google I/O. 🚀 — We've overhauled our AI plans to provide more flexibility and value. …
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@backlon
Dieter Bohn
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A completely redesigned Gemini app with new capabilities like inline Gemini Live with local dialects. And Neural Expressive design! [image]
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Allen Jiang
Allen Jiang
on linkedin
I'm incredibly proud and excited to announce Gemini Spark, 24/7 personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life. …
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@google
@google
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At last year's #GoogleIO, we were processing 480 trillion tokens a month across our surfaces. Now, we're processing over 3.2 *quadrillion* tokens a month. That's a 7x increase in just a year. These tokens represent problems being solved — by a user or a developer or a [image]
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
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these guys will share literally any number other than “how much revenue we made on AI”
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
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Top companies in Google Cloud are doing 1T tokens a day, if they move 80% of their workloads to Flash they can save ~$1B annually according to @sundarpichai
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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This is inane. Tokens processed at insane scale! [image]
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@officiallogank
Logan Kilpatrick
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3.2 quadrillion tokens a month and still growing :) [image]
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@alliekmiller
Allie K. Miller
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Holy crap. And I don't say that lightly. Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up 7x from last year. That's a 3 with 15 zeroes after it. Actually, it's 3 and a 2 and 14 zeroes. #Google [image]
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@jamespmcleod.ca
James McLeod
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“Token” is an annoying and stupid word, and I kinda hate how it's permeated society through both AI and crypto. [embedded post]