Gemini API Release Notes

Deprecated Gemini Live API models

• The following Gemini Live API models are now deprecated:
• gemini-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-dialog
• gemini-2.5-flash-exp-native-audio-thinking-dialog
• You can use gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025 instead.
• Deprecation for gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 and gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview coming December 09, 2025.

• Grounding with Google Maps is now generally available. For more information, see Grounding with Google Maps documentation.

• Released Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast models in public preview, with new features including:
  • Extending Veo-created videos.
  • Referencing up to three images to generate a video.
  • Providing first and last frame images to generate videos from. This launch also added more options for Veo 3 output video durations: 4, 6, and 8 seconds.
• Deprecation for veo-3.0-generate-preview and veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview coming November 6, 2025.

• Launched Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Preview

• Launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image GA: Image Generation with Gemini

The following Gemini 1.5 models are now deprecated:

• 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 to learn about how to use the model for your robotics application.

Launched following 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. To learn more, see the Live API guide and Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio.

• The following models will be deprecated in October, 2025:
  • embedding-001
  • embedding-gecko-001
  • gemini-embedding-exp-03-07 (gemini-embedding-exp)
• See the Embeddings page for details on the latest embeddings model.

What's New

• Support for the Embeddings model in Batch API.
• Added Batch API to the OpenAI compatibility library for easier batch queries.