Gemini V4-Pro Disappoints in Tests, Suspected to Be Hampered by Internal Distillation
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-13
A developer expressed disappointment with Gemini V4-Pro's performance, noting it functions essentially like V4-Flash-0731 with pass@2 (best of two attempts).
They suspect that Google's internal distillation techniques within the same model family equalize the scales, which consistently makes the lighter Flash version appear more impressive in practice. They also predict the model will score around 70 on the ARC-2 benchmark.
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