The rollout is so confusing. Going straight to the Gemini app and asking when I can use this model gets me vague and contradicting answers. Ultimately it sounds like the Vids rollout will take 1-3 days, and you can go to vids.new on desktop to see if you’ve won the lottery and have it available now, apparently on any free Google account. Business accounts can use it too. Meanwhile the Gemini app is getting it on paid plans, but with different video length limits and no clear rollout timeline. If you pay for the API, it’s available now apparently.
Why is this so difficult to figure out?
https://flow.google.com/ is where most people would use the model. You get credits with your monthly sub that you can spend on flow.
Never even heard of this until today.
I think they are doing a terrible job with their product packaging. Like others, I also gave up with Google models long ago due to difficulty in accessing and low limits.
My gut is that this is reflective of their fragmented internal product organization around AI.
Google has been like this forever.
Excellent engineering and awful product.
It's okay to say that Google's engineering is also poor. If they had good engineering, they'd study their users and lead to product improvements. It's really not either/or.
It has been a while, but I used to read AOSP source code quite regularly, and always wondered where do all those engineers that pass the famous Google interviews land, because they certainly weren't writing the Java and C++ code in Android, given how it looked like, or the whole mess with NDK headers, and other stuff in the tooling.
Ah, and the Eclipse/Android Studio stable releases, that usually have bugs as if they were still preview, release candidate ones.
What's clear to me: leetcode and quality code are not the same skillset.
Uhg that’s my issue. I keep getting it mixed up with https://wave.google.com/
Go with the Flow, don’t ride the Wave.
I have an Ultra sub and only see Veo and Omni 1.1 models.
I opened ai studio and i see it popping up, on a normal account: https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-om...
>Going straight to the Gemini app and asking when I can use this model gets me vague and contradicting answers.
In other words, business as usual.