Streaming support for speech generation: Streaming via streamGenerateContent (and stream: true in the Interactions API) is now supported for the gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview model. To learn more, see the Text-to-Speech guide.
Deprecation announcement: The following image generation models are being deprecated and will be shut down on August 17, 2026: Imagen 4 and Gemini 3 Image models: imagen-4.0-generate-001 imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001 To migrate your code to newer stable or preview endpoints, refer to the Gemini deprecations page. Deprecation announcement: The following video generation models are being deprecated and will be shut down on June 30, 2026: Veo models: veo-2.0-generate-001 veo-3.0-generate-001 veo-3.0-fast-generate-001 Update your integration to either use the Veo 3.1 preview model IDs (veo-3.1-generate-preview, veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview) or the 3.1 GA models available through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to avoid service interruptions. Deprecation announcement: The experimental GMP Contextual View tool (a fixed interface for Grounding with Google Maps outputs) will shut down on June 15, 2026:
Web search can now return image results alongside regular text results. Use image search when your application needs current or web-grounded visuals, such as product photos, landmarks, places, events, or visual references. Read more in the web search guide.
Added moderation scores to the Responses API and Chat Completions API. Pass a moderation object in a generation request to receive moderation results for both the model input and generated output in the same response. Learn more in the Moderation guide.
Announced the deprecation of reusable prompt objects, the Evals platform, and Agent Builder. See the deprecations page for shutdown timelines and migration guidance.
Starting June 2, 2026, eligible container sessions will be billed per minute with a 5-minute minimum, instead of being billed at the full 20-minute session rate. The underlying per-minute rate will remain the same. This update is intended to make billing more granular for shorter sessions and will lower effective cost for customers. You can find current built-in tool pricing in our API pricing docs.
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.
OpenAI models are now available in Amazon Bedrock through an OpenAI-compatible Responses API endpoint. Supported models and features vary by AWS Region. Learn more.
For organizations without ZDR enabled, prompt_cache_retention now defaults to 24h instead of in_memory, enabling extended prompt caching by default. Learn more.
Released gemini-3.1-flash-image (Nano Banana 2) and gemini-3-pro-image (Nano Banana Pro), the generally available (GA) versions of our native visual models, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image. Video-to-image generation support: You can now pass a video file (via direct upload or as a public YouTube URL) as multimodal context alongside a text prompt to generate high-quality thumbnails, cinematic movie posters, or summary infographics. This feature is supported exclusively on the gemini-3.1-flash-image model. To learn more, see the Video-to-image generation guide. Deprecation announcement: 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.
Released chat-latest snapshot which points to the latest Instant model currently used in ChatGPT. We recommend leveraging GPT-5.5 for production API usage, but feel free to use this model to test the latest improvements for chat use cases. The underlying model snapshot will be regularly updated. Read more here.