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The passage around this formula

The documented token economics make the architectural claim concrete rather than rhetorical. Gemini’s video pricing bundles the visual and audio streams into one per-second cost: $c_{\text{video}} \approx (f \times \tau_{\text{frame}}) + \tau_{\text{audio}}$. where, at default resolution, the sampling rate f is one frame per second, each frame costs $\tau_{\text{frame}}$ $\approx$ 258 tokens, and the audio track costs $\tau_{\text{audio}}$ $\approx$ 32 tokens per second — giving $c_{\text{video}}$ $\approx$ 290 tokens per second, close to the approximately 300 tokens per second Google documents directly for default-resolution video [ 5 ] . The formula is unremarkable arithmetic, but what it exposes is the real assumption underneath the “native” claim: a single…

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