API Release Notes

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.

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

Launched Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast as GA with lower pricing and new options for aspect ratios, resolution, and seeding. See Veo documentation.

Launched Gemini 2.5 Image Preview, the latest native image generation model.

Released URL context tool to general availability (GA). Support for using URL context with the gemini-2.0-flash model (available during experimental release) will be discontinued in one week.

Released Imagen 4 Ultra, Standard, and Fast models as generally available (GA). See the Imagen page.

allow_adult setting in Image to Video generation is now available in restricted regions. See the Veo page for details.

• Launched image-to-video generation for the Veo 3 Preview model.
• Released Veo 3 Fast Preview model.

See the Veo page for more details.

Released gemini-2.5-flash-lite, a fast, low-cost, high-performance Gemini 2.5 model. See Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.

• Launched veo-3.0-generate-preview, the latest Veo update introducing video with audio generation. See the Veo page.
• Increased rate limits for Imagen 4 Standard and Ultra. See Rate limits.

Released gemini-embedding-001, the stable version of our text embedding model. See Embeddings. The gemini-embedding-exp-03-07 model will be deprecated on August 14, 2025.

Launched Gemini API Batch Mode. Batch up requests and send them to process asynchronously. See Batch Mode.

• gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 and gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 now redirect to the stable version gemini-2.5-pro.
• gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 is shut down.

Released Imagen 4 Ultra and Standard Preview models. See the Image generation page.

• Released gemini-2.5-pro, the stable version of the most powerful model, with adaptive thinking. See Gemini 2.5 Pro and Thinking. gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 will redirect to gemini-2.5-pro on June 26, 2025.
• Released gemini-2.5-flash, the first stable 2.5 Flash model. See Gemini 2.5 Flash. gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 will be deprecated July 15, 2025.
• Released gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17, a low-cost, high-performance model. See Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview.

Released gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05, a new version of the most powerful model with adaptive thinking. See Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview and Thinking. gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 will redirect to gemini-2.5-pro on June 26, 2025.

The last available tuning model, Gemini 1.5 Flash 001, has been shut down. Tuning is no longer supported on any models. See Fine tuning with the Gemini API.