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Preach. Retiring 2.5 Flash will be such a massive loss. It’s the only low latency model that is deployed in Australia. I’m able to get 300-400ms completions from 2.5 Flash, making it suitable for voice agents.

3.5 Flash offers 600-700ms completions and doesn’t even get an Australian deployment, so the actual latency is closer to 700-800ms, completely breaking the voice agent use case.

There is honestly no other model deployed in this part of the world that comes close to the quality that 2.5 Flash offers for low latency applications.