Google launches agentic video understanding for Gemini Flash, claiming up to 88% fewer video tokens
- Google has launched agentic video understanding for Gemini Flash models, and the article says it can cut video-token use by up to 88%.
- Previously, a Gemini model processing a 90-minute lecture ingested the full video at a fixed rate of one frame per second, regardless of the question.
- The article describes the prior single-pass approach as requiring users to pay for the full video timeline in context or pre-chunk the video and risk losing details.