Don’t they call all their LLM models Gemini? The paper indicates that they specifically used all the AI models to come up with this figure when they describe the methodology. It looks like they even include classification and search models in this estimate.
I’m inclined to believe that they are issuing a misleading figure here, myself.
They reuse the word here for a product, not a model. It's the name of a specific product surface. There is no single model and the models used change over time and for different requests
I would assume so. One important trend is that models have gotten more intelligent for the same size, so for a given product you can use a smaller model.
Again this is pretty similar to how CPUs have changed
I’m inclined to believe that they are issuing a misleading figure here, myself.