API Release Notes

The following Gemini 2.0 models are now shut down:

• gemini-2.0-flash
• gemini-2.0-flash-001
• gemini-2.0-flash-lite
• gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001

Use gemini-3.5-flash or gemini-3.1-flash-lite instead.

Released gemini-3.1-flash-image and gemini-3-pro-image as generally available versions of native visual models.

Video-to-image generation support: Pass a video file (via direct upload or public YouTube URL) as multimodal context alongside a text prompt to generate high-quality thumbnails, cinematic movie posters, or summary infographics. Supported on gemini-3.1-flash-image model.

Deprecation: The gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview models are deprecated and will be shut down on June 25, 2026.

The gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview model has been shut down. Use gemini-3.1-flash-lite instead.

Managed Agents in the Gemini API launched in public preview. Developers can build and deploy autonomous, stateful agents that run in secure, isolated Google-hosted Linux sandbox environments.

Antigravity Agent (antigravity-preview-05-2026) released in public preview—a general-purpose managed agent that can autonomously plan, reason, write and execute code, manage files, and browse the web inside its sandbox container.

Released gemini-3.5-flash, the generally available (GA) version of Gemini 3.5 Flash, our most intelligent model for sustained frontier performance on agentic and coding tasks.

Launched Managed Agents in the Gemini API in public preview. This enables developers to build and deploy autonomous, stateful agents that run in secure, isolated Google-hosted Linux sandbox environments.

Released the general-purpose Antigravity Agent managed agent, antigravity-preview-05-2026, in public preview. The Antigravity agent can autonomously plan, reason, write and execute code, manage files, and browse the web inside its sandbox container.

Released gemini-3.1-flash-lite, the generally available (GA) version of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, optimized for speed, scale, and cost efficiency. Deprecation announcement: The gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview model is deprecating on 5/11/26 and will be shut down on May 25, 2026.

Upcoming breaking change: The Interactions API request and response schema (outputs → steps) and output format configuration (response_format) are changing. The new schema becomes the default on May 26 and the legacy schema will be removed on June 8.

Updated File Search to support multimodal search. You can now natively embed and search through images using the gemini-embedding-2 model. Grounding metadata now includes media_id for visual citations and page_numbers that indicate where information is found.

Launched event-driven Webhooks support in the Gemini API to replace polling workflows for the Batch API and long-running operations.

The gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview model has been shut down. Use gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview instead.

Released gemini-embedding-2 as generally available (GA). See the Embeddings page for more details.

Released new versions of the Deep Research agent with collaborative planning, visualization support, MCP server integration, and File Search:

• deep-research-preview-04-2026: Designed for speed and efficiency, ideal to be streamed back to a client UI.
• deep-research-max-preview-04-2026: Maximum comprehensiveness for automated context gathering and synthesis.

Released new versions of the Deep Research agent with collaborative planning, visualization support, MCP server integration, and File Search:

• deep-research-preview-04-2026: Designed for speed and efficiency, ideal to be streamed back to a client UI.
• deep-research-max-preview-04-2026: Maximum comprehensiveness for automated context gathering and synthesis.

Launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, a cost-efficient, expressive, and steerable text-to-speech model. See the Text-to-Speech docs for more.

Released gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview, an updated robotics model with new capabilities including instrument reading and improved spatial and physical reasoning. See the Gemini Robotics-ER page and the blog.

Deprecation: gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview will be shut down April 30, 2026.

Released gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it, available on AI Studio and through the Gemini API, as part of the Gemma 4 launch.

Released gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it, available on AI Studio and through the Gemini API, as part of the Gemma 4 launch.

Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing cost or latency.

Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing cost or latency.

Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing cost or latency.