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SUNSET — Five days until the imagen-4.0 family shuts down: imagen-4.0-generate-001 and two sibling models stop on August 17SAMPLING — Since July 21 the temperature, top_p, and top_k parameters are deprecated; no shutdown date yet, but worth auditing your callsAPI — The Interactions API is now generally available and is the recommended path to the latest models and featuresROBOTICS — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31; its successor, ER 2, has been in public preview since July 30ENTERPRISE — The Gemini Enterprise mobile app reached GA for organizations authenticating through third-party identity providersRENAME — NotebookLM Enterprise is now Gemini Notebook Enterprise, so the term to search the docs for has changed tooSUNSET — Five days until the imagen-4.0 family shuts down: imagen-4.0-generate-001 and two sibling models stop on August 17SAMPLING — Since July 21 the temperature, top_p, and top_k parameters are deprecated; no shutdown date yet, but worth auditing your callsAPI — The Interactions API is now generally available and is the recommended path to the latest models and featuresROBOTICS — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31; its successor, ER 2, has been in public preview since July 30ENTERPRISE — The Gemini Enterprise mobile app reached GA for organizations authenticating through third-party identity providersRENAME — NotebookLM Enterprise is now Gemini Notebook Enterprise, so the term to search the docs for has changed too
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Gemini Advanced/2026-07-28Advanced

When Version Numbers Stopped Meaning Generations: Rebuilding Cost Attribution That Parsed Model IDs

A regex that derived generation and tier from Gemini model IDs broke quietly once Flash reached 3.6 while the top Pro stayed at 3.5. Here are the runnable probes, the attribution gap between regex-derived and registry-joined rollups, and the redesign that treats model IDs as opaque keys.

Gemini API/2026-06-14Advanced

Keeping Gemini API's Default-Model Shift From Becoming an Incident — Pinning Model IDs and Detecting Silent Upgrades in Production

When the default model quietly moves up, your output length, reasoning behavior, and cost change with zero code edits. This guide shows how to pin model IDs in a single source of truth and verify the effective model from the response to detect default changes.