fineprint what AI companies quietly changed · RSS

2026-06-10 05:36 UTC · google/gemini-api-changelog · live page

Gemini 2.0 Flash models are shut down, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image are released with video-to-image support.

Summary by gemma-4-12b. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: e921527c39-google-gemini-api-changelog.diff · commit e921527c39

diff --git a/snapshots/google/gemini-api-changelog.md b/snapshots/google/gemini-api-changelog.mdindex b80eb04..bbbc467 100644--- a/snapshots/google/gemini-api-changelog.md+++ b/snapshots/google/gemini-api-changelog.md@@ -5,4 +5,23 @@ This page documents updates to the Gemini API. +## 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 @@ -763,3 +782,3 @@ API updates: Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. -Last updated 2026-05-18 UTC.+Last updated 2026-06-01 UTC.

← Google Gemini timeline