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Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
Google AI · {"$":{"xmlns:author":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"},"name":["Min Choi"],"title":["Product Manager"],"department":["Google DeepMind"],"company":[""]} · Published · 3 min read · 385 on Hacker News
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- What happened
- Google released Gemini Decisions API with a new Decision 1 model for fast yes/no, multiple-choice, and rubric-scoring decisions across multimodal inputs.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building systems requiring low-latency classification, routing, or grading across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs in production.
- Watch out
- API pricing charges input tokens once per request regardless of question count; output tokens are free. Latency remains 150-250ms end-to-end, which may not suit sub-100ms requirements.
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