Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google DeepMind

Gemini 2.5 Pro, released by Google in May 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family designed for complex reasoning, coding, and long-context analysis tasks. It features a 1M token context window, native support for text, image, video, and audio input, and integrated thinking capabilities for multi-step problem solving. Gemini 2.5 Pro targets advanced coding workflows, scientific reasoning, and applications requiring deep understanding across large, mixed-modality contexts.

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B

NVIDIA

Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.