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Google made Gemini 2.5 Flash the default across Gemini products.

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A June 18 model-tracking roundup reports Google set Gemini 2.5 Flash as the default across its consumer Gemini products, prioritizing latency and cost. This is single-source as of writing, so flag it pending the official Gemini blog, but it lines up with Google's other June 18 changes, including the Gemini CLI to Antigravity migration. If confirmed, it's Google optimizing the default for cheap, fast consumer traffic rather than peak capability, which tells you where they think the volume is.

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June 18 model-tracking roundup

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