This page documents updates to the Gemini API.
December 13 2023
4 new models:
- 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.
Capabilities 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:
- Function Calling
- Semantic Retriever
- Attributed Question Answering (AQA)
- 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).