alt Hacker NewsGemini is still my top choice within production software for typical data extraction from unstructured data. Gemini Flash Lite feels like a cheat code for speed, and it's really cheap.
Some other Chinese models are also fast and cheap, but a harder sell in a U.S. production environment.
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MrBuddyCasino • yesterday at 3:15 PM
Yeah Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is really good. Which Chinese models can you recommend?
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msp26 • yesterday at 2:58 PM
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Speaking from experience here, flash lite models have amazing price, speed, and perform far above their size, but are susceptible to very bad instruction following and recall when either complexity or context size inch up. They’ll just forget to apply your instructions to portions of the input, and repeat parts of the input that should be returned verbatim as direct quotes but with subtle changes (breaking urls, for example).