United Kingdom, Sept. 26 -- Google has updated its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite AI models, promising faster, cheaper and more accurate results across a wide range of applications.

In a blog post, the company said the releases are now available in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and are designed to balance performance with efficiency.

The latest Flash-Lite update was built on three core themes: better instruction following, reduced verbosity, and stronger multimodal capabilities.

According to Google, the model is now "significantly better at following complex instructions and system prompts," while also producing shorter, more concise answers.

It also boasts "more accurate audio transcription, better image understanding, and improve...