Comprehensive Transcript of "Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro: Features and Use Cases"

This transcript captures the content from the video titled "AI and Tech for Education" published on April 8, 2025, which showcases the capabilities and applications of Google's latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Introduction and Overview

Hello everyone, and in this video, we're going to be looking at Google's smartest model yet, which is the Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental, which is now available for all users for free inside gemini.google.com app as well as the aistudio.google.com. Google has described the Gemini 2.5 as a thinking model that's designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. We'll see here that these models are capable of reasoning through their thoughts before responding, resulting in enhanced performance and improved accuracy1.

We're already seeing that Gemini 2.5 Pro is now topping the leaderboard on the chatbot arena across all the various tasks and areas including hard prompts, coding, maths, creative writing, instruction following, longer queries, and so on. In this video, I'm going to be showing you how to access and use the model for free and walk you through some amazing use cases where you can take advantage of this new model and its expanded thinking and reasoning abilities. So let's get started1.

Use Case 1: Data Analysis and Visualization

For our first use case, we're going to be taking advantage of Gemini 2.5 Pro's enhanced reasoning abilities by asking it to analyze a data set and create interactive charts for us. As we saw, this model is able to handle complex logic. It's leading on key reasoning benchmarks such as the AMY 2025, and we're going to be putting that power to use and seeing how well Gemini can interpret structured data and also turn it into visual insights1.

I'm going to come here to add a prompt that says: "Here is a data set of numeric results attached. Please convert it into interactive data visualizations using HTML and JavaScript. I want clear visual representation of all the important relationships and insights. Use responsive charts and make sure to label axes and include the legend. Output the full HTML and JavaScript code so I can preview in the browser."1

But what I need to do here as well in order for it to output the actual visual and input the interactive graphs within the interface is that I'm going to activate now this new canvas feature. Then I'm also going to attach my data set, which is basically the quarter one consolidated statements of Apple. Once I've attached that and added my prompt, I'm now going to enter that1.

Now you're going to see it's choosing the chart types, it's combining the output, and then it starts to open the canvas interface to start writing the code for the interactive data analysis that it's producing1.

So now it's come back with the financial highlights and the various graphs. It tells us that this document will include interactive charts and it shows us:

The net sales breakdown: products versus services
The net sales by geographical region
The net sales by product category
The key income statement figures
Simplified balance sheet overview
The cash flow activities1

If we look at this, from just a single prompt it's produced a very clear interactive data analysis of the various relationships in the document. You can see here the net sales by region, net sales by category, the income statement highlights. You can see the balance sheet overview of the assets and the liabilities and the cash flows. You can prompt this further and produce other types of charts other than bar graphs, but you can see the power of this model in that one single prompt was able to produce a complete analysis, was able to visualize the key financial data from the provided PDF1.

Use Case 2: Strategic Analysis

For our next use case, I'm again going to take advantage of its enhanced reasoning abilities and its thinking capabilities in order for it to act as my strategic analyst to help me analyze a case study and come up with strategic directions as well as visualizations for a case study that I have1.

I'm going to add a prompt here that says "You're a strategic analyst advising executive leadership based on the case study." And I have added here a case study that is Tik Tok's disruption of the social media giants, and I wanted to perform the following strategic diagnosis:

I wanted to identify Tik Tok's sustainable competitive advantage using the resource-based view
I wanted to build a logic based decision framework
I wanted to build a risk and opportunity forecast and identify three major threats and three future opportunities for Tik Tok
Also wanted to come up with three innovation areas that it should prioritize and a policy strategy1

I've also specified some required visuals if I'm creating a strategic proposal that would add value to that document that I'm presenting. So things like a SWAT table, 2x2 competitive positioning matrix, I've got a strategic timeline, a bubble chart, a decision tree, and so on. I've added the full case study here, and you can do this for your business plan, for any decision making situation that you want Gemini to help you with. After we've done that, again we're going to activate the canvas feature and then we're going to enter that1.

So if we look at the strategic report that it's come back with, first we can see that it's given us an executive summary of what needs to be done. It's highlighted the strategic diagnosis, it's looked at the areas that I wanted to focus on from both the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities. It's then focused on the key disruptive elements and then come up with a strategic decision matrix for competitors. Then it's come up with a risk forecasting and mitigation plan, market simulation which looks at the Tik Tok ban in the US, and here it's come up with the innovation scalability road map for Tik Tok for the next 5 years which it's done in detail, and then it's come up with a policy and regulation strategy as well1.

You can just see how comprehensive this outcome has been, and it's come up with some strategic recommendations as well. All this from just literally one prompt. If you look at the content, some of the ideas and the suggestions that it's indicating are really good suggestions as well that could take your business or your product or your project forward1.

Let's look at the visual elements as well. You can see that it's come back with the SWAT analysis, and it's really nicely laid out showing me the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It's come back with this competitive positioning matrix, again with a nice visual that I can use and add to my presentations. It's come up with the key strategic moves timeline, nice colors, nice formatting, and a user engagement versus monetization potential here in a bubble diagram as I specified. And then competitor decision tree responding to Tik Tok, and then a PESTL risk radar for Tik Tok1.

Really, the capabilities of Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental are unbelievable. And if you look at the content in terms of the directions it's suggested in the report and the ideas that it's coming back with, it really is one of the best models out there. You can imagine how you can use that to help you build better strategies for business that you're planning to open, for a program that you want to implement, for content development and expansion - really for any kind of project that you're working on1.

Use Case 3: YouTube Video Analysis

For our third use case, we're going to be using Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental from the AI studio.google.com. The reason we're going to be doing that is, if we look at the options here to attach different files, we can see that we now have the option to attach a YouTube video. What you'll notice in AI Studio is that you have very large token count, which is over 1 million tokens, which allows it to work with a very large input file1.

So I'm going to be attaching a YouTube video, and I've showed you this in a previous video that I've taken a very long video and then I've gotten it to extract some key information from that video. With a bit of experimentation, I found that it usually is capable of handling videos of about half an hour1.

So we're going to take this video and now we're going to attach link and I'm also going to add a prompt here that says: "Provide me detailed insights of all the concepts in the video with a timestamp of where the concept is mentioned and a description of this concept. After each concept, also provide me with practical applications."1

So what you'll see here is that I'm not only asking it to come back with the key concepts in the video but also to build on that and to provide me with the practical applications that I can use to identify the areas that I need to work on1.

So you can see now it's come back with the details of the video and you can see how accurate it is here. It tells us about the episode focus and then it goes on to provide me with the definition. It even tells me the definition starts at 1 minute 35 seconds so that I can go back to the video and if I want to hear that definition as well I can then really focus on where the information is coming from. It provides me again with the explanation and some practical applications as well. Then it goes on to the next concept and provides me with the pathways and the importance, showing me the very accurate timestamps where it's extracted the information from, with explanations and practical applications, and so on. It does this for the rest of the video1.

So this is a really nice way if you wanted not only a summary - I know there's a lot of tools now that give you a full transcript and summary of the videos - but this is a really good way for you to extract the detailed information from that video as well and to build on that information with suggestions of next steps as well1.

Use Case 4: Research Article Presentation

For our next use case, we've added a research article and I'm going to add a prompt here that says: "Create a professional animated HTML presentation based on the content of the research article."1

It's got some features of the presentation requirements such as design and layout, the slides, and the structure. I've indicated several aspects that I wanted to focus on such as introduction, the background, methodology, key findings. You can just suggest which areas you want or you can just have a general prompt that says create a presentation. Again, I'm going to activate the canvas button in order for it to produce these interactive elements and then I'm going to submit that1.

And you can see that it's now come back with the presentation. It's got the title of the research article, it's got the subtitle, it's got the details of the authors as well. Then we've got here an introduction of the main areas of the presentation and then again some key issues in the article. I really like how it's done this banner here at the bottom and then the methodology section clearly identified the different perspectives that have been introduced in the article. Then we've got legal perspective and here it's got nice looking colorful boxes as well in this slide, and then different perspectives, and it's even added a chart for us here - quite a lot of work done in that presentation again in one prompt with a conclusion and then with the reference. You can just work with this to build a more comprehensive presentation1.

Use Case 5: Audio Overview and Quiz Creation

For our next use case, we're going to be generating an audio overview from a research article. What I've done here is I've attached a research article that I have, and what Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental have introduced is the ability to generate this audio overview. So we're going to click on that, and what you'll see with this audio overview is that it's similar to what we get with Notebook LM in that it's a podcast feature. They're discussing the various details of the article in order to help us get some more interactive information from the article or the paper that we're looking at1.

Now we can see that the audio overview has now been generated and if we play that: "...specifically how they're, you know, actually impacting healthcare right now based on some research you sent over." "Yeah, this academic chapter really dives into some real-world applications, not just like theory, but like how AI and IoT are already being used, you know, to change things for patients across a whole bunch of different medical fields, right?" "Yeah, and that's what we're going to try to get at today, like, you know, cut through all the technical jargon and really look at, you know, how these technologies are actually making a difference."1

And what you'll see is that it's given us that podcast style overview of the research article and just makes that reading a lot more interesting and interactive. And if you add some prompts here as well, you can get them to immediately discuss issues as well. Another really nice feature to have within the Gemini app. And you can also use it to create a dashboard from any of your articles as key learning materials like I've done here1.

Once you're done, you can also ask it to create a quiz based on that. So I've just added a follow-up question here to create an interactive quiz based on the article that I've attached. Then it's come up with this really nice looking quiz and it's interactive so I can choose the responses I want. Then once I'm done with selecting all the responses, I can then submit and what it will do is that it will give me the results straight away1.

So lots of different ways that you can use this Gemini 2.5 Pro. I hope you found this video useful and see you in the next video1.

Conclusion

Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, particularly in reasoning, analysis, and multimodal understanding. The model demonstrates impressive abilities across various use cases, from data visualization and strategic analysis to video processing and interactive content creation1.

The integration of features like canvas mode, YouTube video analysis, and audio overview generation makes Gemini 2.5 Pro a versatile tool for professionals, educators, and researchers. Its ability to process complex information and generate interactive, visually appealing outputs stands out as a major improvement over previous models12.

As demonstrated throughout the video, the model can be accessed for free through Gemini's web interface and Google AI Studio, making these advanced capabilities accessible to a wide range of users. The practical applications showcased in the video illustrate how Gemini 2.5 Pro can assist with data analysis, strategic planning, content creation, and educational materials development1.

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