Google has finally arrived

Some observations on the model

• Gemini 2.5 pro is absolutely a beast in coding, perhaps the best model right now
• They spent all the computing resources on training it on coding data and forgot to give it a distinct personality
• Doesn't do well on reasoning as well as Grok 3 (think) and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)
• On par with 03-mini-high in general mathematics

If you're a coder, you'll absolutely love it, or else you will be fine with other frontier reasoning models (Deepseek r1, if you ask me)

Deepseek v3 0324 is the first open-source model to match SOTA coding performance

• Understands user intention better than before; I'd say it's better than Claude 3.7 Sonnet base and thinking. 3.5 is still better at this (perhaps the best)
• Again, in raw quality code generation, it is better than 3.7, on par with 3.5, and sometimes better.
• Great at reasoning, much better than any and all non-reasoning models available right now.
• Better at the instruction following than 3,7 Sonnet but below 3.5 Sonnet.