●ROBOTICS — The ER 1.6 preview that shut down on August 31 does have a successor. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, in both standard and streaming variants●VIDEO — ER 2 judges success and failure from live video rather than still snapshots, which is what lets it catch spills, slips, and misalignments while a task is still running●DEADLINE — Next up is September 30, when gemini-omni-flash-preview is retired. The target is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, GA since August 27, and there are now under four weeks left●APIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service account●PRICE — Gemini 3.7 Flash keeps its introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through December 31, then moves to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027. Any estimate crossing the year needs both figures●AUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 terms●ROBOTICS — The ER 1.6 preview that shut down on August 31 does have a successor. Gemini Robotics ER 2 is in public preview, in both standard and streaming variants●VIDEO — ER 2 judges success and failure from live video rather than still snapshots, which is what lets it catch spills, slips, and misalignments while a task is still running●DEADLINE — Next up is September 30, when gemini-omni-flash-preview is retired. The target is gemini-omni-1.1-flash, GA since August 27, and there are now under four weeks left●APIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service account●PRICE — Gemini 3.7 Flash keeps its introductory $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through December 31, then moves to $1.50/$7.50 on January 1, 2027. Any estimate crossing the year needs both figures●AUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 terms

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On-Device AI² Android² Qwen2.5¹ Local LLM¹ Ollama¹ Routing¹ Chrome Built-in AI¹ ML Kit¹

⟐ Gemini Dev/2026-05-29Intermediate

Treating a 0.5B Local LLM as a 'Front-Line Router' — Gemini Nano Next to Qwen 0.5B

Qwen2.5 0.5B reads as 'too weak for daily chat' when you give it the wrong task. As a mobile-app developer with 50M cumulative downloads behind me, I find it useful to put Gemini Nano next to Qwen 0.5B and think about the routing layer instead.

⟐ Gemini Dev/2026-03-21Advanced

When Gemini Nano Won't Run — Chrome and Android Have Different Doors

Pasting a Gemini Nano sample often fails. Chrome moved from the ai.* namespace to LanguageModel, and Android's entry point is ML Kit GenAI. Here is what works today, plus the device requirements nobody mentions.