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SUNSET — The image generation models shut down tomorrow, August 17: imagen-4.0-generate-001, ultra, fast, and the Gemini 3 Image family, and calls will fail with a hard errorGA — Gemini 3.7 Flash reached general availability on August 13, with substantial gains in software engineering, web development, and agentic work at an introductory price through December 31APPS — On August 12 Google widened the set of apps you can connect to Gemini, adding Granola, Otter.ai, and Wix alongside OpenTable, Ticketmaster, iHeartRadio, and PandoraSAMPLING — The temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters are now deprecated, so migrating to a newer model means revisiting those assumptionsROBOTICS — Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, and the older gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31NOTEBOOK — NotebookLM Enterprise has been renamed Gemini Notebook Enterprise, and the Gemini Enterprise mobile app is now generally availableSUNSET — The image generation models shut down tomorrow, August 17: imagen-4.0-generate-001, ultra, fast, and the Gemini 3 Image family, and calls will fail with a hard errorGA — Gemini 3.7 Flash reached general availability on August 13, with substantial gains in software engineering, web development, and agentic work at an introductory price through December 31APPS — On August 12 Google widened the set of apps you can connect to Gemini, adding Granola, Otter.ai, and Wix alongside OpenTable, Ticketmaster, iHeartRadio, and PandoraSAMPLING — The temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters are now deprecated, so migrating to a newer model means revisiting those assumptionsROBOTICS — Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, and the older gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31NOTEBOOK — NotebookLM Enterprise has been renamed Gemini Notebook Enterprise, and the Gemini Enterprise mobile app is now generally available
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Gemini Basics/2026-08-16Beginner

The Strongest Gemini Is in Preview and the Cheap One Is GA. That Ordering Should Drive Your Model Choice

Sort the Gemini lineup by release stage instead of capability and the order inverts: the strongest reasoning model sits in preview while the fast, inexpensive Flash models are GA. Here is how a solo developer handles that, plus a 30-line script that counts how many preview models your code already depends on.