# Gemini 1.5 Pro

> It could take a million tokens, which in 2024 meant an hour of video or an entire repository in one request, and it made a serious case that retrieval was a workaround rather than an architecture. Google gave each of its two snapshots exactly twelve months and switched both off on the anniversary of their release, to the day. The second outlived the first by four months.

2024-05-24 — 2025-09-24 · lived 1 year, 4 months

Buried here: `gemini-1.5-pro-001`, `gemini-1.5-pro-002`

## The record

- Provider: Google
- Model id: `gemini-1.5-pro-001`
- Cause of death: Superseded
- Succeeded by: [Gemini 2.0 Flash](https://models.rip/gemini-2.0-flash/epitaph) (this archive's reading of lineage, not the provider's migration guidance)

## Sources

- https://web.archive.org/web/20250614102734/https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models/gemini/1-5-pro
- https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/

## Elsewhere

- [Stand at this grave](https://models.rip/gemini-1.5-pro)
- [The Google plot](https://models.rip/google)
- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)