Release notes

This page documents updates to the Gemini API.

March 25, 2025

  • Released gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25, a public experimental Gemini model with thinking mode always on by default. To learn more, see Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental.

March 12, 2025

Model updates:

  • Launched an experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash model capable of image generation and editing.
  • Released gemma-3-27b-it, available on AI Studio and through the Gemini API, as part of the Gemma 3 launch.

API updates:

March 11, 2025

SDK updates:

March 7, 2025

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-embedding-exp-03-07, an experimental Gemini-based embeddings model in public preview.

February 28, 2025

API updates:

  • Support for Search as a tool added to gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05, an experimental model based on Gemini 2.0 Pro.

February 25, 2025

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-2.0-flash-lite, a generally available (GA) version of Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, which is optimized for speed, scale, and cost efficiency.

February 18, 2025

Model updates:

  • Gemini 1.0 Pro is no longer supported. For the list of supported models, see Gemini models.

February 19, 2025

AI Studio updates:

API updates:

February 11, 2025

API updates:

February 6, 2025

Model updates:

SDK updates:

February 5, 2025

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-2.0-flash-001, a generally available (GA) version of Gemini 2.0 Flash that supports text-only output.
  • Released gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05, an experimental public preview version of Gemini 2.0 Pro.
  • Released gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05, an experimental public preview model optimized for cost efficiency.

API updates:

SDK updates:

January 21, 2025

Model updates:

December 19, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Mode for public preview. Thinking Mode is a test-time compute model that lets you see the model's thought process while it generates a response, and produces responses with stronger reasoning capabilities.

    Read more about Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Mode in our overview page.

December 11, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental for public preview. Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental's partial list of features includes:
    • Twice as fast as Gemini 1.5 Pro
    • Bidirectional streaming with our Live API
    • Multimodal response generation in the form of text, images, and speech
    • Built-in tool use with multi-turn reasoning to use features like code execution, Search, function calling, and more

Read more about Gemini 2.0 Flash in our overview page.

November 21, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-exp-1121, an even more powerful experimental Gemini API model.

Model updates:

  • Updated the gemini-1.5-flash-latest and gemini-1.5-flash model aliases to use gemini-1.5-flash-002.
    • Change to top_k parameter: The gemini-1.5-flash-002 model supports top_k values between 1 and 41 (exclusive). Values greater than 40 will be changed to 40.

November 14, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-exp-1114, a powerful experimental Gemini API model.

November 8, 2024

API updates:

October 31, 2024

API updates:

October 3, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001, a stable version of our smallest Gemini API model.

September 24, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-1.5-pro-002 and gemini-1.5-flash-002, two new stable versions of Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, for general availability.
  • Updated the gemini-1.5-pro-latest model code to use gemini-1.5-pro-002 and the gemini-1.5-flash-latest model code to use gemini-1.5-flash-002.
  • Released gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0924 to replace gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0827.
  • Released the civic integrity safety filter for the Gemini API and AI Studio.
  • Released support for two new parameters for Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash in Python and NodeJS: frequencyPenalty and presencePenalty.

September 19, 2024

AI Studio updates:

  • Added thumb-up and thumb-down buttons to model responses, to enable users to provide feedback on the quality of a response.

API updates:

  • Added support for Google Cloud credits, which can now be used towards Gemini API usage.

September 17, 2024

AI Studio updates:

  • Added an Open in Colab button that exports a prompt – and the code to run it – to a Colab notebook. The feature doesn't yet support prompting with tools (JSON mode, function calling, or code execution).

September 13, 2024

AI Studio updates:

  • Added support for compare mode, which lets you compare responses across models and prompts to find the best fit for your use case.

August 30, 2024

Model updates:

August 27, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released the following experimental models:
    • gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0827
    • gemini-1.5-flash-exp-0827
    • gemini-1.5-flash-8b-exp-0827

August 9, 2024

API updates:

August 5, 2024

Model updates:

  • Fine-tuning support released for Gemini 1.5 Flash.

August 1, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0801, a new experimental version of Gemini 1.5 Pro.

July 12, 2024

Model updates:

  • Support for Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision removed from Google AI services and tools.

June 27, 2024

Model updates:

  • General availability release for Gemini 1.5 Pro's 2M context window.

API updates:

June 18, 2024

API updates:

June 12, 2024

Model updates:

  • Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision deprecated.

May 23, 2024

Model updates:

May 14, 2024

API updates:

  • Introduced a 2M context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro (waitlist).
  • Introduced pay-as-you-go billing for Gemini 1.0 Pro, with Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash billing coming soon.
  • Introduced increased rate limits for the upcoming paid tier of Gemini 1.5 Pro.
  • Added built-in video support to the File API.
  • Added plain text support to the File API.
  • Added support for parallel function calling, which returns more than one call at a time.

May 10, 2024

Model updates:

April 9, 2024

Model updates:

  • Released Gemini 1.5 Pro (gemini-1.5-pro-latest) in preview.
  • Released a new text embedding model, text-embeddings-004, which supports elastic embedding sizes under 768.

API updates:

  • Released the File API for temporarily storing media files for use in prompting.
  • Added support for prompting with text, image, and audio data, also known as multimodal prompting. To learn more, see Prompting with media.
  • Released System instructions in beta.
  • Added Function calling mode, which defines the execution behavior for function calling.
  • Added support for the response_mime_type configuration option, which lets you request responses in JSON format.

March 19, 2024

Model updates:

December 13 2023

Model updates:

  • gemini-pro: New text model for a wide variety of tasks. Balances capability and efficiency.
  • gemini-pro-vision: New multimodal model for a wide variety of tasks. Balances capability and efficiency.
  • embedding-001: New embeddings model.
  • aqa: A new specially tuned model that is trained to answer questions using text passages for grounding generated answers.

See Gemini models for more details.

API version updates:

  • v1: The stable API channel.
  • v1beta: Beta channel. This channel has features that may be under development.

See the API versions topic for more details.

API updates:

  • GenerateContent is a single unified endpoint for chat and text.
  • Streaming available through the StreamGenerateContent method.
  • Multimodal capability: Image is a new supported modality
  • New beta features:
  • Updated candidate count: Gemini models only return 1 candidate.
  • Different Safety Settings and SafetyRating categories. See safety settings for more details.
  • Tuning models is not yet supported for Gemini models (Work in progress).