API Release Notes

The following Gemini Live API models are now shut down:

• gemini-2.0-flash-live-001
• gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview

Gemini 3 billing for Grounding with Google Search will begin on January 5, 2026.

Deprecation announcement: The gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview model will be shut down January 15, 2026.

Deprecation announcement: The text-embedding-004 model will be shut down January 14, 2026.

Released Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview, gemini-3-pro-image-preview, the next iteration of the Nano Banana model. See the Image generation page for details.

Launched the first Gemini 3 series model, gemini-3-pro-preview, a state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal model with agentic and coding capabilities. New behaviors include:

• Media resolution
• Thought signatures
• Thinking levels

See the Gemini 3 Developer Guide for migration, new features, and specs.

Deprecation announcements:

• November 12 shutdown:
  • veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview
  • veo-3.0-generate-preview
• November 14 shutdown:
  • gemini-2.0-flash-exp-image-generation
  • gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation

The following model is shut down:

• imagen-3.0-generate-002

Use Imagen 4 instead.

Launched the File Search API to public preview, enabling developers to ground responses in their own data. See the File Search page for more info.

• For Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the input token count for images has been reduced from 1290 to 258, lowering the cost of image editing.
• Deprecation announcements:
  • November 18th: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17, gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20
  • December 2nd: gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21, gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-1219, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05
  • December 9th: gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview, gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05, gemini-2.0-flash-exp, gemini-2.0-pro-exp, gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05

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
  • gemini-2.5-flash-exp-native-audio-thinking-dialog Use gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 instead.
• Deprecation: gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 and gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview will be shut down December 9, 2025.

Grounding with Google Maps is now generally available. See Grounding with Google Maps documentation.

Released Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast models in public preview with new features:

• Extending Veo-created videos
• Referencing up to three images to generate a video
• Providing first and last frame images to generate videos from
• More output duration options for Veo 3: 4, 6, and 8 seconds

Deprecation: veo-3.0-generate-preview and veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview will be shut down November 12, 2025.

Launched Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Preview.

Launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image as generally available (GA). See 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.
• Launched preview models:
  • gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025
  • gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025

See the Models page for details.

Released gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025, a new native audio model for the Live API with improved function calling and speech cut-off handling. See the Live API guide and Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio.

Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down in October 2025:

• embedding-001
• embedding-gecko-001
• gemini-embedding-exp-03-07 (gemini-embedding-exp)

See the Embeddings page for the latest embeddings model.