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Gemini APIMay 20, 2025

Launched support for custom video preprocessing using clipping intervals and configurable frame rate sampling

Launched support for custom video preprocessing using clipping intervals and configurable frame rate sampling. Launched multi-tool use, which supports configuring code execution and Grounding with Google Search on the same generateContent request. Launched support for asynchronous function calls in the Live API. Launched an experimental URL context tool for providing URLs as additional context to prompts. Released gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20, a Gemini preview model optimized for price-performance and adaptive thinking. To learn more, see Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview and Thinking. Released the gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts and gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts models, which are capable of generating speech with one or two speakers. Released the lyria-realtime-exp model, which generates music in real time. Released gemini-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-dialog and gemini-2.5-flash-exp-native-audio-thinking-dialog, new Gemini models for the Live API with native audio output capabilities. To learn more, see the Live API guide and Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio. Released gemma-3n-e4b-it preview, available on AI Studio and through the Gemini API, as part of the Gemma 3n launch.

What's new in Gemini

Launched the File Search API to public preview, enabling developers to ground responses in their own data.…

For Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the input token count for images has been reduced from 1290 to 258, lowering the…

Launched the new logging and datasets tool for the Gemini API

The following Gemini Live API models are now shut down: gemini-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-dialog…

Grounding with Google Maps is now generally available. For more information, see Grounding with Google Maps…

Released Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast models in public preview, with new features including: Extending Veo-created…

Launched Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Preview

Launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image GA: Image Generation with Gemini

The following Gemini 1.5 models are now shut down: gemini-1.5-pro gemini-1.5-flash-8b gemini-1.5-flash

Released Gemini Robotics ER 1.5 model in preview. See the Robotics overview to learn about how to use the…

Released gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025, a new native audio model for the Live API with…

Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down in October 2025: embedding-001…

Released support for the Embeddings model in Batch API, and added Batch API to the OpenAI compatibility…

Launched Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast GA, with lower pricing and new options for aspect ratios, resolution, and…

Launched Gemini 2.5 Image Preview, our latest native image generation model

Released URL context tool to general availability, a tool for providing URLs as additional context to…

Released Imagen 4 Ultra, Standard and Fast models as generally available. To learn more, see the Imagen page

allow_adult setting in Image to Video generation are now available in restricted regions. See the Veo page…

Launched image-to-video generation for the Veo 3 Preview model

Released gemini-2.5-flash-lite, our fast, low-cost, high-performance Gemini 2.5 model. To learn more, see…

Launched veo-3.0-generate-preview, the latest update to Veo introducing video with audio generation. To…

Released gemini-embedding-001, the stable version of our text embedding model. To learn more, see…

Launched Gemini API Batch Mode. Batch up requests and send them to process asynchronously. To learn more,…

The preview models gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 and gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 are now redirecting to the…

Released Imagen 4 Ultra and Standard Preview models. To learn more, see the Image generation page

Released gemini-2.5-pro, the stable version of our most powerful model, now with adaptive thinking. To learn…

Released gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05, a new version of our most powerful model, now with adaptive thinking.…

The last available tuning model, Gemini 1.5 Flash 001, has been shut down. Tuning is no longer supported on…

Launched support for custom video preprocessing using clipping intervals and configurable frame rate sampling

Released gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation, a preview model for generating and editing images. To…