Gemini 2.5 Flash in Madgwick: super-speed, impressive reasoning
Google's latest and fastest model - Gemini 2.5 Flash - is the latest cutting edge model available for all staff in the Madgwick AI platform.
Designed to be the ideal ‘balanced workhorse’ for your daily tasks, Gemini 2.5 Flash delivers a massive 1 million context size, and ups inference speed significantly, while retaining high-quality reasoning. For the majority of professional and academic work in Madgwick, Gemini 2.5 Flash offers a faster experience without a noticeable trade-off in output quality.
The benefit of speed
The most immediate advantage of Gemini 2.5 Flash is its speed. In testing, the model generates responses at over 300 tokens per second. To put that in perspective, it's more than double the speed of Gemini 2.5 Pro and up to five times faster than other advanced models available in Madgwick. For you, this means:
Less waiting: Get answers, summaries, and drafts in a fraction of the time.
Better creative flow: Brainstorm ideas, iterate on text, and analyse documents without the delay that can interrupt your train of thought.
Reasoning that rivals larger systems
While optimised for speed, Gemini 2.5 Flash does not sacrifice intelligence. It's the same model architecture that Google trusts to power its own AI Search and Deep Research products, demonstrating its capability for reliable, high-quality output. It qlso rates well on important benchmarks:
On the LMArena Hard Prompts benchmark, which uses human reviewers to rate model performance on difficult, real-world tasks, Gemini 2.5 Flash ranks second only to the top-tier Gemini 2.5 Pro model.
It scores a highly respectable 80.9% on the MMLU benchmark, which measures knowledge and problem-solving ability across 57 different subjects [0].
While models like GPT-4o or Claude Opus may score higher on some benchmarks, Flash’s performance proves it is a formidable tool for the complex reasoning required in an academic environment.
When should you use Gemini 2.5 Flash?
We recommend you try Gemini 2.5 Flash as your daily driver model in Madgwick for most tasks. It excels at:
Summarising content: Quickly condense research papers, meeting transcripts, or long emails.
Drafting communications: Generate emails, reports, and other documents.
Brainstorming and ideation: Rapidly explore concepts for teaching, research, or administrative projects.
Everyday coding tasks: Get fast, reliable help with common coding challenges.
For tasks requiring the absolute deepest level of multi-step reasoning or for assistants specifically built on another model, the wide range of choices in Madgwick remain. But for speed, efficiency, and powerful all-around performance, Flash is the new standard.
To try it, simply select Gemini 2.5 Flash from the model dropdown menu in the Madgwick chat interface on your next visit.