Training small models for fun and profit (the easy way)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0300

Back in July 2026, Google announced they’ll retire the Gemini 2.5 family on October 20th.

At Base44 we had one last feature that was still using Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: autocomplete in the builder, called millions of times a day. We had looked into a replacement model in the past, but nothing newer could match its latency. And for autocomplete, latency isn’t a nice-to-have: suggestions that arrive late don’t get seen, so higher latency = lower success rate.

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Training small models for fun and profit (the easy way)