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Gemini 1.5 Pro: Million-Token Context

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What Happened

Google released Gemini 1.5 Pro with a 1 million token context window (later extended to 2M) — able to process entire codebases, books, or hours of video in a single prompt. It could find a needle in a haystack across millions of tokens with near-perfect recall.

Why It Mattered

Redefined what was possible with context length. Processing entire codebases or lengthy documents in one go opened entirely new use cases for AI assistants.

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Part of the Generative AI Revolution (2022–2024) era · Browse all research breakthroughs · View all 2024 milestones

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