Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17
Google DeepMind's April 17 hybrid-reasoning preview checkpoint for consumer, developer and enterprise use.
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Why this model scores 70.9
Controllable reasoning at lower latency and cost supports broad automation, while preview status, provider controls and lower frontier capability constrain deployment and control difficulty.
News tied to Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17
The model score of 70.9 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 66.8 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.
Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash preview with controllable reasoning
Google released an early Gemini 2.5 Flash checkpoint through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and the Gemini app, with hybrid reasoning and developer-controlled thinking budgets.
- Full item contribution
- +0.14
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 04-17 equal share
- +0.14
Model score history
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R4
Doom Score 70.9
Source-backed model availability audit using the model's existing primary or authoritative catalogue evidence. Exact-version evidence chronology replayed under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R3
Doom Score 70.9
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R2
Doom Score 71.0
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.
12 Aug 2026 -
R1
Doom Score 71.2
Initial exact dated profile for the April 17 preview checkpoint.
12 Aug 2026