API Release Notes

Added support for Grounding with Google Search.

Released gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001, a stable version of the smallest Gemini API model.

• Released gemini-1.5-pro-002 and gemini-1.5-flash-002 for general availability.
• Updated gemini-1.5-pro-latest to use gemini-1.5-pro-002 and gemini-1.5-flash-latest to use gemini-1.5-flash-002.
• Released gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0924 to replace gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0827.
• Released the civic integrity safety filter.
• Added support for frequencyPenalty and presencePenalty parameters for Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash in Python and NodeJS.

• Added thumb-up/thumb-down buttons to model responses in AI Studio for quality feedback.
• Added support for Google Cloud credits towards Gemini API usage.

Added an Open in Colab button in AI Studio that exports a prompt and code to run it to a Colab notebook. Does not yet support prompting with tools (JSON mode, function calling, or code execution).

Added support for compare mode in AI Studio, allowing comparison of responses across models and prompts to find the best fit for your use case.

Gemini 1.5 Flash supports supplying JSON schema through model configuration.

Released the following experimental models:

• gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0827
• gemini-1.5-flash-exp-0827
• gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0827

Added support for PDF processing.

Fine-tuning support released for Gemini 1.5 Flash.

Released gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0801, a new experimental version of Gemini 1.5 Pro.

Support for Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision removed from Google AI services and tools.

• General availability release for Gemini 1.5 Pro's 2M context window.
• Added support for code execution.

Added support for context caching.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision deprecated.

• Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-001) is generally available (GA).
• Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-001) is generally available (GA).

• Introduced a 2M context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro (waitlist).
• Introduced pay-as-you-go billing for Gemini 1.0 Pro.
• Introduced increased rate limits for the upcoming paid tier of Gemini 1.5 Pro.
• Added built-in video support and plain text support to the File API.
• Added support for parallel function calling.

Released Gemini 1.5 Flash (gemini-1.5-flash-latest) in preview.

Model updates:

• Released Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-latest) in preview.
• Released text-embeddings-004 with support for elastic embedding sizes under 768.

API updates:

• Released the File API for temporarily storing media files.
• Added support for multimodal prompting (text, image, and audio).
• Released System instructions in beta.
• Added Function calling mode.
• Added response_mime_type configuration option for JSON format responses.

Added support for tuning Gemini 1.0 Pro in Google AI Studio or with the Gemini API.