Gemini 2.5 Pro + 4o Native Image Gen

**Gemini 2.5 Pro** from **Google DeepMind** has become the new top AI model, surpassing **Grok 3** by 40 LMarena points, with contributions from **Noam Shazeer** integrating Flash Thinking techniques. It is available as a free, rate-limited experimental model. Meanwhile, **OpenAI** released **GPT 4o Native Images**, an autoregressive image generation model with detailed insights shared by **Allan Jabri** and credits to **Gabe Goh**. Gemini 2.5 Pro excels in reasoning, coding, STEM, multimodal tasks, and instruction following, topping the LMarena leaderboard significantly. It is accessible via Google AI Studio and the Gemini App.