I used it for testing my voice agent. It was basically what I expected. Good fast model but "generic" or "vanilla" is how i would describe its personality emulation capability as. Gemma models still outperform it in that department. As far as technicals, one thing i found annoying is cash use was not that good, it missed more then i liked, i contacted support and they were fast and responsive and said they were working on that issue, maybe they solved it with 2.5? Anyways, im prolly gonna try 2.5 again see if anything different, but cant deny the speed, thats the biggest thing this company has going for this offering as if you are in the business of classical cascaded voice agent systems, latency is number one priority and this thing is fast....

I'm less bullish, this model and previous are halfway decent and you can do diffusion sub-agents and sub-agent-agents today, and there hasn't been a sea change, or anything noticeable or well-known. Economically, there's ~no moat, diffusion models aren't a mysterious untame-able force.

I think we should be happy when this happens as it encourages more players to be active in AI, and us not rely on only two companies

Not just a model - It's a diffusion model. Instead of Next Token prediction it builds the entire page at once and then denoises it. Kind of mind blowing when you watch it happen.

Even pretty dumb models are useful for running subtasks (especially at this sort of speed). Note that in the coding section they only mention using it as a subagent for a smarter model