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> Today, we are releasing updated versions of Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite, available on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, aimed at continuing to deliver better quality while also improving the efficiency.

Typo in the first sentence? "... improving the efficiency." Gemini 2.5 Pro says this is perfectly good phrasing, whereas ChatGPT and Claude recognize that it's awkward or just incorrect. Hmm...



ChatGPT and Claude are mistaken if they think it is incorrect. The parallelism in verb tenses is between "continuing to deliver" and "improving the efficiency". It's a bit wordy, but definitely not wrong.


"Improving the efficiency" sounds fine to me (a native English speaker), what's wrong with it in your opinion?


Usually you would say "improving the efficiency of x and y". In this case at the end of the sentence it should be "improving the models' efficiency" or just "improving efficiency". I don't think it's "wrong" and it's obviously clear what they mean, but I agree that the phrasing is a little awkward.


"the" is redundant is probably what GP means.


You would just say "improving efficiency". Whereas theirs is like: "Improving the efficiency [... of what?]"


You left out words at the front that are important.

“deliver better quality while also improving the efficiency.”

Reads fine to me. An editor would likely drop “the”.


This is pedantic. It's perfectly fine usage in non-formal English speaking. What's more - who gives a shit? By your own standards, you're inserting a quote in the middle of your comment in an arguably similarly "awkward" way.




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