Google Gemini
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Google Gemini changelog
RSSOctober 2026
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · The latest AI news we announced in September 2026
- New and changed features Product news · Guided Vision in Gemini Live: built for accessibility
September 2026
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
- New and changed features Product news · Let skills in Gemini tackle your most repetitive tasks
- New and changed features Product news · See what 4 builders are making with Gemini 3.8 Flash
- New and changed features Product news · 3 ways this grocer cooks for 200 guests with Gemini
- New and changed features Product news · Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
- New and changed features Product news · A new wave of Connected Apps is rolling out to Gemini.
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 2.5 models access update
- New and changed features Product news · Antigravity Agent 09-2026
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- New and changed features Product news · 4 ways to tackle household chores with Gemini
- New and changed features Product news · DevFest is back
- New and changed features Product news · The Gemini app is now available for Windows
- New and changed features Product news · 4 ways Gemini makes administrative chores quick and easy
- New and changed features Product news · Create your best tracks yet with Lyria 3.5 in Gemini.
- New and changed features Product news · Lyria 3.5 generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality
- New and changed features Product news · Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
- New and changed features Product news · Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
- New and changed features Product news · Agentic video understanding
- New and changed features Product news · Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
- New and changed features Product news · The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
August 2026
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini Omni Flash generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.5 Transcribe generally available (GA)
- New and changed features Product news · Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- New and changed features Product news · Turn your voice into action with new productivity features in Gemini Live
- New and changed features Product news · 7 ways to kick-start back to school using Gemini in Workspace
- Issues and security Service incident · Google Gemini and Vertex AI: We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.7 Flash generally available (GA)
July 2026
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini Robotics ER 2 in public preview
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite generally available (GA)
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecated parameters
- New and changed features Product news · Developer logs support for the Interactions API: logs for supported Interactions API calls are now viewable in the AI Studio dashboard.
June 2026
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) to general availability (GA), our built-in multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency and cost-effective…
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · gemini-omni-flash-preview: gemini-omni-flash-preview
- New and changed features Product news · Computer Use
- New and changed features Product news · Streaming support for speech generation
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement
- New and changed features Product news · 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…
May 2026
- New and changed features Product news · 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 F…
- Retirements and dates Product news · 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.
- New and changed features Product news · Video-to-image generation support
- New and changed features Product news · The gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview model has been shut down.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched the Managed Agents in the Gemini API in public preview.
- New and changed features Product news · 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…
- New and changed features Product news · Released the general-purpose Antigravity Agent managed agent, antigravity-preview-05-2026, in public preview.
- Retirements and dates Product news · 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.
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-3.1-flash-lite, the generally available (GA) version of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, optimized for speed, scale, and cost efficiency.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · gemini-3.1-flash-lite: gemini-3.1-flash-lite
- New and changed features Product news · Upcoming breaking change
- New and changed features Product news · Updated File Search to support multimodal search.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched event-driven Webhooks support in the Gemini API to replace polling workflows for the Batch API and long-running operations.
April 2026
- New and changed features Product news · The gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview model has been shut down.
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-embedding-2 as generally available (GA).
- New and changed features Product news · Released new versions of the Deep Research agent with collaborative planning, visualization support, MCP server integration, and File Search: deep-research-preview-04-20…
- New and changed features Product news · Launched Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, our cost-efficient, expressive, and steerable text to speech model.
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview, our updated robotics model.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview model will be shut down on April 30, 2026 at 9AM PST.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview: gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview
- New and changed features Product news · 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.
- New and changed features Product news · Introduced the new Flex and Priority inference tiers, offering more options for optimizing cost or latency.
March 2026
- New and changed features Product news · The gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 model has been shut down.
- New and changed features Product news · 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 appli…
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview: veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview, the latest audio-to-audio (A2A) model designed for real-time dialogue and voice-first AI applications.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched Lyria 3 music generation models: lyria-3-clip-preview (30-second clips) and lyria-3-pro-preview (full-length songs).
- New and changed features Product news · Rolled out Prepay and Postpay billing plans in AI Studio.
- New and changed features Product news · 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…
- New and changed features Product news · Grounding with Google Maps is now supported for Gemini 3 models going forward.
- New and changed features Product news · Introduced revamped Usage Tiers and Billing Account spend caps for a better user billing experience.
- New and changed features Product news · Introduced project-level spend caps to billing in AI Studio.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview: gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-embedding-2-preview, our first multimodal embedding model.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 model will be shut down on March 31, 2026.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · embedding-2-preview: embedding-2-preview
- New and changed features Product news · The Gemini 3 Pro Preview model has been shut down.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview, the first Flash-Lite model in the Gemini 3 series.
February 2026
- New and changed features Product news · Launched Nano Banana 2, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, a high-efficiency model optimized for speed and high-volume use cases.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: Gemini 3 Pro Preview (gemini-3-pro-preview) will be shut down March 9, 2026.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview: gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview
- New and changed features Product news · Launched a separate endpoint gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools, which is better at prioritizing custom tools, for users building with a mix of bash and tools.
- New and changed features Product news · Released Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, our latest iteration in the new Gemini 3 series family.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down June 1, 2026: gemini-2.0-flash gemini-2.0-flash-001 gemini-2.0-flash-lite gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001
- New and changed features Product news · The following models are shut down: gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-25 imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06 imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06
January 2026
- New and changed features Product news · Launched support for the Computer Use tool in gemini-3-pro-preview and gemini-3-flash-preview.
- New and changed features Product news · Changed the latest aliases: gemini-pro-latest switched to gemini-3-pro-preview gemini-flash-latest switched to gemini-3-flash-preview
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down February 17, 2026: gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-25 imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06 imagen-4.0-ultra-gen…
- New and changed features Product news · The gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview model has been shut down.
- New and changed features Product news · The text-embedding-004 model has been shut down.
- New and changed features Product news · Added 4k output resolutions for Veo and more support for portrait videos in all resolutions.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched model lifecycle feature.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched support for Cloud Storage buckets and any public and private DB pre-signed URL as data input source for the Gemini API.
December 2025
- New and changed features Product news · Introduced a breaking change to the Interactions API in v1beta.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched Gemini 3 Flash Preview, gemini-3-flash-preview, delivering fast frontier-class performance that rivals larger models at a fraction of the cost.
- New and changed features Product news · Released gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025, a new native audio model for the Live API.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025: gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025
- New and changed features Product news · Launched the Interactions API.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched the Gemini Deep Research agent in preview.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched enhancements to our text-to-speech models, Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS preview (optimized for low latency) and Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS preview (optimized for quality), incl…
- New and changed features Product news · The following Gemini Live API models are now shut down: gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview
- New and changed features Product news · Gemini 3 billing for Grounding with Google Search will begin on January 5, 2026.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview model will be shut down January 15, 2026.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The text-embedding-004 model will be shut down January 14, 2026.
November 2025
- New and changed features Product news · Released Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview, gemini-3-pro-image-preview, the next iteration to the Nano Banana model.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched the first Gemini 3 series model, gemini-3-pro-preview, our state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal understanding model with powerful agentic and coding capabi…
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down: November 12: veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview veo-3.0-generate-preview November 14: gemini-2.0-flash-exp-i…
- New and changed features Product news · The following model is shut down: imagen-3.0-generate-002 Use Imagen 4 instead.
- New and changed features Product news · Launched the File Search API to public preview, enabling developers to ground responses in their own data.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: The following models will be shut down: November 18th: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20 December 2nd: gemini-…
- New and changed features Product news · For Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the input token count for images has been reduced from 1290 to 258, lowering the cost of image editing.
October 2025
- New and changed features Product news · Launched the new logging and datasets tool for the Gemini API.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: Shut down for gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 and gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview coming December 09, 2025.
- New and changed features Product news · The following Gemini Live API models are now shut down: gemini-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-dialog gemini-2.5-flash-exp-native-audio-thinking-dialog You can use gemini…
- New and changed features Product news · Grounding with Google Maps is now generally available.
- New and changed features Product news · Released Veo 3.1 and 3.1 Fast models in public preview, with new features including: Extending Veo-created videos.
- Retirements and dates Product news · Deprecation announcement: Shut down for veo-3.0-generate-preview and veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview coming November 12, 2025.
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview: veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview
- Install and upgrade New version · Google Gemini · veo-3.1-generate-preview: veo-3.1-generate-preview
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