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Written by AI from the official notes. Check them for exact details.Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available in preview with new features and enhancements.
- Released Gemini 1.5 Pro in preview.
- Introduced new text embedding model supporting elastic sizes under 768.
- Added File API for temporary media file storage.
- Enabled multimodal prompting with text, image, and audio.
- Introduced Function calling mode for execution behavior.
Why it matters: Developers and AI tool users should explore these updates for enhanced functionality and flexibility in their applications.
Full release notes7 changes
- Released Gemini 1.5 Pro (
gemini-1.5-pro-latest) in preview. - Released a new text embedding model,
text-embeddings-004, which supports elastic embedding sizes under 768. - Released the File API for temporarily storing media files for use in prompting.
- Added support for prompting with text, image, and audio data, also known as multimodal prompting. To learn more, see Prompting with media.
- Released System instructions in beta.
- Added Function calling mode, which defines the execution behavior for function calling.
- Added support for the
response_mime_typeconfiguration option, which lets you request responses in JSON format.