April 2025 Model and Live API Updates

Model updates:

• Released veo-2.0-generate-001, a GA text- and image-to-video model. See the Veo docs.
• Released gemini-2.0-flash-live-001, a public preview Live API model with billing enabled, featuring:
  • Session Resumption: Server-side session state storage (up to 24 hours) with reconnection handles.
  • Longer Sessions via Context Compression: Sliding window context compression to prevent abrupt terminations.
  • Graceful Disconnect Notification: GoAway server message before connection closes.
  • Configurable Voice Activity Detection (VAD): Sensitivity levels or manual turn control via activityStart/activityEnd events.
  • Configurable Interruption Handling: Control whether user input interrupts the model.
  • Configurable Turn Coverage and Media Resolution.
  • Expanded Voice & Language Options: Two new voices, 30 new languages, configurable output language.
  • Text Streaming: Incremental text responses.
  • Token Usage Reporting: Detailed token counts in usageMetadata.