Remember when we used to marvel at LLMs that could handle a few thousand tokens of context? Well, hold onto your hats, folks, because Google just dropped Gemini 1.5, a multimodal LLM with a 1 million token context window. That's not just a bigger window, it's a whole new way of looking at how we interact with LLMs.
Sure, the ability to dump massive documents, movies, and audio into a single prompt is cool. Imagine asking an LLM to compare two movies after consuming both in their entirety, or to summarize a dense legal document. But the real magic of Gemini 1.5 isn't just the size of the window, it's the near-perfect recall and improved reasoning that comes with it.
Jeff Dean himself pointed out the significance of this breakthrough on Twitter, referencing DeepMind's "needle in a haystack" tests. These tests showed that Gemini 1.5 can not only access millions of tokens, b