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Next-Gen Pro Models Match Prior-Gen Ultra Capability

AI development is compute-limited in serving rather than capability: Google ships Flash and Pro but not Ultra models because each generation's Pro reaches 80-90% of Ultra's capability while being far cheaper and faster to serve, and the next generation's Pro is made as good as the previous generation's Ultra but fast enough to use at scale.

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Speaker

Sundar Pichai

Evidence Quote

for each generation we feel like we've been able to get the Pro model at, I don't know, 80, 90% of Ultra's capability, but Ultra would be a lot more slow and lot more expensive to serve.

Source

Sundar PichaiLex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:01 AM

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