google could be making money and extending their reach by being a bit more ambitious about offering the gemini models on an actual production basis. that would require them to provide some service level guarantees but I think it would be good for google and their customers.
1206 is a very useful model for me but I basically cannot use it. it is right up there for coding with the best models.
I hope the team will make some of these gemini models available as axtual production release