Microsoft Launches Decision-1 and Google Rolls Out Gemini Thinking Levels
Microsoft’s Decision-1 scores a fixed set of answers instead of writing text, at $0.042 per million input tokens, while Google’s new Gemini thinking levels let users and developers dial reasoning effort to Low, Medium or High. We explain both launches, check Microsoft’s benchmark claims against H2O.ai’s objections and an earlier version of its own blog post, and work through what each option costs.
