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Google Sets Premium Pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro Amid Rising Costs for Top AI Models
Google has announced pricing for its Gemini 2.5 Pro model at $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, making it Google's most expensive AI offering to date. This pricing, while higher than some competitors like OpenAI's o3-mini, reflects an industry-wide trend of increasing costs for flagship AI models, potentially driven by high demand and significant computing expenses.
Skynet Chance (+0.01%): The increasing costs of top AI models might constrain widespread deployment of the most capable systems, slightly reducing immediate risks, but also indicates these models are becoming more powerful and valuable enough to command premium prices.
Skynet Date (+1 days): Rising costs and computational demands for frontier models suggest economic constraints may slow the pace of development and deployment of the most advanced AI systems, potentially extending the timeline before truly dangerous capabilities emerge.
AGI Progress (+0.04%): The exceptional performance of Gemini 2.5 Pro on reasoning, coding, and math benchmarks represents meaningful progress in key AGI-relevant capabilities, justifying its premium pricing based on significant capability improvements.
AGI Date (+1 days): While the model shows capability advancements, the increasing computational costs and higher pricing suggest economic factors may create a ceiling effect that slightly decelerates the pace of AGI development.