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title: Release notes
description: Keep track of updates to the Gemini API

This page documents updates to the Gemini API.
June 24, 2026
Computer Use: Launched public preview support for the
Computer Use tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash. This
release includes simplified actions with intents, built-in support for
browser, mobile, and desktop environments, configurable safety policies, and
advanced prompt injection detection.
June 17, 2026
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.
June 15, 2026
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:
June 1, 2026
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.
May 28, 2026
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.
May 25, 2026
The gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview model has been
shut down. Use
gemini-3.1-flash-lite instead.
May 19, 2026
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. This is now the model behind gemini-flash-latest.
Launched the 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. To learn more,
see the Agents overview page and the
Quickstart.
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. See the
Antigravity Agent guide for code
samples and specifications.
May 7, 2026
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.
May 6, 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.
See the
migration guide
for details.
May 5, 2026
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. To learn
more, see the File Search guide.
May 4, 2026
Launched event-driven Webhooks support in the
Gemini API to replace polling workflows for the Batch API and long-running
operations.
April 30, 2026
The gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview model has been
shut down. Use
gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview instead.
April 22, 2026
Released gemini-embedding-2 as generally available
(GA). To learn more, see the Embeddings page.
April 21, 2026
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.
April 15, 2026
Launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, our cost-efficient,
expressive, and steerable text to speech model. Read the
Text-to-Speech docs to learn more.
April 14, 2026
Released gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview, our updated robotics model.
It now has new capabilities like instrument reading, improved spatial and
physical reasoning capabilities. To learn more, see
Gemini Robotics-ER page and the
blog.
Deprecation announcement: The gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview model
will be shut down on April 30, 2026 at 9AM
PST.
April 2, 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.
April 1, 2026
Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options
for optimizing cost or latency.
March 31, 2026
Launched Veo 3.1 Lite Preview, veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview, our most
cost-efficient video generation model, designed
for rapid iteration and building high-volume applications.
The gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 model has been shut down. Use
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview instead.
March 26, 2026
Released gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview, the latest
audio-to-audio (A2A) model designed for real-time dialogue and voice-first
AI applications. Read the Live API docs to get
started.
March 25, 2026
Launched Lyria 3 music generation
models: lyria-3-clip-preview
(30-second clips) and lyria-3-pro-preview
(full-length songs). Both models accept text and image inputs and generate
high-quality, 48kHz stereo audio. See the
Music generation guide for details and
code samples.
March 23, 2026
Rolled out Prepay and Postpay billing plans in
AI Studio. Existing accounts may be affected; read the Billing documentation for more information.
March 18, 2026
Released the new Built-in Tools and Function Calling Combination feature, making it possible
to use Gemini's built-in tools alongside custom function calling
tools in a single API call.
Grounding with Google Maps
is now supported for Gemini 3 models going forward.
March 16, 2026
Introduced revamped Usage Tiers
and Billing Account spend caps
for a better user billing experience.
March 12, 2026
Introduced project-level spend caps to billing in AI Studio.
March 10, 2026
Released gemini-embedding-2-preview, our first multimodal embedding model.
It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs,
mapping all modalities into a unified embedding space. To learn more, see
Embeddings.
Deprecation announcement: The gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 model
will be shut down on March 31, 2026.
March 9, 2026
The Gemini 3 Pro Preview model has been shut down. The gemini-3-pro-preview now points to
gemini-3.1-pro-preview.
March 3, 2026
Launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview, the first Flash-Lite model in the
Gemini 3 series. Read the model
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