Google Alters Gemini Subscription Approach: Free Tier to Offer Solely Flash-Lite from October 9, Exacerbating Disparity with Paid Plans
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Google has declared that, commencing on October 9, it will modify the access rights and usage constraints for the Gemini model concerning personal accounts, imposing stricter model configurations on users of the lower tiers. Free users will be restricted to accessing only the Gemini 3.5-Flash-Lite version. Meanwhile, AI Plus subscribers will be limited to utilizing the Flash and Flash-Lite lightweight models, with the exclusion of advanced reasoning models. The privileges for Google AI Pro and Ultra premium subscribers will stay intact. Additionally, Google is introducing three workload modes, with usage being deducted in real-time according to the computational complexity of tasks. This alteration indicates that large model applications have stepped into a fresh stage of refined operational efficiency from the perspective of computational power economics.