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by nichohel 10 days ago
"Last" or "latest"? Those are rather different.
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hehe... fwiw, the un-editorialized title is "Using the *latest" Gemini models"

I speculate OP wanted to put focus on their chosen detail in the title...

Indeed, the focus was on this section but it is direct link to the relevant paragraph.

For the "last/latest", it is the result of trying to trim the title enough to enter in the size limited title box and then I didn't notice the typo.

At first I wanted to put the 3.5/3.6 model number because "latest" is not clear and time dependant but it was too long then.

The OP does not appear to be a native English speaker. And, for example, languages like Spanish don't clearly differentiate between "last" and "latest".
I am not a Spanish speaker, but Portuguese is usually similar. In it we say "último" for last, and "mais recente" for latest, so while there isn't a single word translating, we still have its equivalent. I imagine it's the same for Spanish.
In Spanish, "último" is ambiguous, and can mean either last or most recent.

Funnily, in Galician there is a distinction between "último" (most recent) and "derradeiro" (final). I would have guessed that it would be the same in Portuguese, given how closely related the two languages are.