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Gemini 2.5 Pro reached preview on 25 March 2025 and general availability at the end of June, alongside the cheaper, faster Gemini 2.5 Flash. Two things separate it from Gemini 2.0: a one-million-token context window that behaves stably to at least 500k, and multimodality that has left the demo stage behind.
Prompt injection is the most common vulnerability in LLM applications, and many teams defend against it with filters that do not work. We review defense layers backed by evidence, what actually works, and what is security theater.
GPT-4 Turbo, released in November 2023, expanded GPT-4's context to 128,000 tokens and cut the input price threefold, down to 10 dollars per million tokens. GPT-4o now beats it on price, speed and answer quality, but Turbo still holds up in stable production apps, contracts pinned to a specific version, and deterministic tests that depend on its exact behaviour.
