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Nobody's pointing out that Google's "Preview" models aren't meant to be used for production use-cases because they may change them or shut them down at any time
by pants2 1y ago
Nobody's pointing out that Google's "Preview" models aren't meant to be used for production use-cases because they may change them or shut them down at any time? That's exactly what they did (and have done in the past). This is a case of app developers not realizing what "Preview" means. If they had used a non-preview model from Google it wouldn't have broken.
- xethos 1y agoBecause Google wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want to leave "products" in beta for years (gMail being the canonical example), they want to shut down products that don't hit massive adoption very shortly out of the gate, and they want to tell users that they can't rely on products labelled "Beta". If it's beta and not to be relied on, of course they won't hit the adoption numbres they need to keep it alive. Google needs to pick a lane, and / or learn which products to label "Alpha" instead of calling everything Beta
- SirensOfTitan 1y agoThey're using these "Preview" models on their non-technical user facing Gemini app and product. Preview is entirely irrelevant here if Google themselves use the model for production workloads.