Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 5 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 25.8.
  • Olmo 7b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
ProviderGoogleAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index33.230.3
Released2024-05-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4210

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding12611016
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1257993
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math12691018
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1278977
LMArena Chinese12951014
LMArena Russian1288947
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1258978
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Olmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text12871032
LMArena Creative Writing1285990
LMArena Multi-Turn12531007
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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