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Jun 1, 2026
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June 1, 2026

Gemini API shuts down Gemini 2.0 models and directs users to newer Flash options.
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.
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May 28, 2026
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May 28, 2026

Gemini API releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3.1 Pro Image as generally available native visual models, adds video-to-image generation for thumbnails, movie posters, and infographics on Flash Image, and deprecates the preview models ahead of June 25, 2026 shutdown.
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 3.1 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.

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May 25, 2026
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May 25, 2026

Gemini API shuts down gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview and directs users to gemini-3.1-flash-lite.
The gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview model has been shut down. Use gemini-3.1-flash-lite instead.

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May 19, 2026
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May 19, 2026

Gemini API releases Gemini 3.5 Flash as generally available and adds Managed Agents in public preview, bringing secure sandboxed autonomous agents for agentic and coding workflows. It also introduces the Antigravity Agent managed agent for planning, coding, file management and web browsing.
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 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.

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May 7, 2026
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May 7, 2026

Gemini API releases Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite GA, optimized for speed, scale and cost efficiency.
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.

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May 6, 2026
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May 8, 2026
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May 6, 2026

Gemini API announces an upcoming Interactions API schema and response_format change, with a new default and legacy removal.

• 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.
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May 5, 2026
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May 5, 2026

Gemini API adds multimodal File Search with image embedding and richer grounding metadata for visual citations.
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.

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May 4, 2026
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May 04, 2026

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

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Apr 30, 2026
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April 30, 2026

Gemini API shuts down gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview and directs users to gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview.
The gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview model has been shut down. Use gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview instead.

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Apr 22, 2026
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April 22, 2026

Gemini API releases gemini-embedding-2 as generally available for embeddings.
Released gemini-embedding-2 as generally available (GA). To learn more, see the Embeddings page.

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Apr 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026

Gemini API adds new Deep Research versions with collaborative planning, visualization, MCP server integration, and File Search.
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.

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Apr 15, 2026
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April 15, 2026

Gemini API launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, a cost-efficient, expressive, steerable text-to-speech model.

• 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.
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Apr 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026

Gemini API releases gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview with instrument reading and stronger spatial and physical reasoning.
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.

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Apr 2, 2026
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April 2, 2026

Gemini API releases gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it on AI Studio and the Gemini API.
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.

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Apr 1, 2026
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April 1, 2026

Gemini API introduces Flex and Priority inference tiers to help optimize for cost or latency.
Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing for costs or latency.

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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 3.1 Pro Image.

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