1. State-of-the-art reasoning performance

• #1 on LMArena human preference leaderboard.
• Excels at advanced reasoning benchmarks like GPQA and AIME 2025.
• Achieves 18.8% on Humanity's Last Exam (no tools), representing frontier human-level reasoning.

2. New “thinking model” architecture

• Built with explicit reasoning steps internally before responding.
• Handles complex, multi-stage logic with higher accuracy and fewer hallucinations.

3. Elite science and mathematics capabilities

• Leads in math and science tasks across industry benchmarks.
• High performance without costly inference tricks like majority voting.

4. Exceptional coding abilities

• Major leap over Gemini 2.0 in coding performance.
• 63.8% on SWE-Bench Verified with custom agent setup.
• Strong at code transformation, debugging, and building agentic apps.
• Capable of generating full applications (e.g., a playable video game) from a single-line prompt.

5. Massive multimodal context

• Ships with a 1,000,000 token window (2M coming soon).
• Handles entire documents, datasets, video sequences, audio files, and large codebases.
• Maintains strong performance even at extreme context lengths.

6. Native multimodality across all inputs

• Understands and reasons over text, images, audio, video, and code.
• Designed for real-world, multi-source problem-solving and agent workflows.

7. Consistent high-quality outputs

• Improved post-training results in more accurate, coherent, and stylistically strong responses.
• Higher reliability across complex workloads.

8. Early availability for developers

• Available today in Google AI Studio for experimentation.
• Coming soon to Vertex AI with higher rate limits and production-ready access.

1. Flagship-level reasoning and math performance

• Designed for world-class reasoning depth, precision, and multi-step logical chains.
• Excels at STEM, mathematics, symbolic operations, proofs, and analytical workloads.

2. Powerful multimodal understanding

• Supports text, images, and other modalities.
• Handles cross-modal reasoning tasks requiring context synthesis.

3. Extreme capability across diverse tasks

• Positioned as a top-tier 'jack of all trades' model.
• Strong in natural language, coding, knowledge retrieval, and structured generation.

4. Large 256K context window

• Enables analysis of long documents, entire codebases, multi-document packs, and extensive agent sessions.
• Supports workloads that require persistent reasoning across large inputs.

5. Advanced developer tooling support

• Function calling for tool-augmented workflows.
• Structured outputs for predictable, schema-controlled generation.
• Integrates smoothly with agents and complex automation pipelines.

6. Efficient caching for cost reduction

• Cached input tokens discounted to $0.75 / 1M tokens.
• Encourages RAG, retrieval pipelines, and multi-step conversational workflows.

7. Production-ready performance

• Stable rate limits: 480 requests per minute.
• High token throughput: 2,000,000 tokens per minute.
• Available across multiple xAI regional clusters.

8. Optional Live Search augmentation

• Add-on: $25 per 1K sources.
• Enhances factual accuracy and real-time information retrieval.