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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 variantsVIDEO — 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 runningDEADLINE — 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 leftAPIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service accountPRICE — 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 figuresAUDIO — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe handles language detection across 85+ languages, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and custom vocabulary biasing of up to 1,000 termsROBOTICS — 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 variantsVIDEO — 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 runningDEADLINE — 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 leftAPIKEY — Every remaining standard API key, restricted ones included, stops working during September. The replacement is an auth key bound to a Google Cloud service accountPRICE — 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 figuresAUDIO — 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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Gemini API/2026-06-22Advanced

Compressing Gemini API Chat History with Rolling Summaries — Designing Chatbots That Survive Hundreds of Turns

When a Gemini chatbot grows long enough, your bills balloon and one day a request hits the token ceiling. The rolling-summary pattern keeps long chats stable.

Gemini API/2026-05-28Intermediate

Why per-turn generationConfig is ignored in Gemini API chat sessions

If you pass a different generationConfig (temperature, max_output_tokens, response_schema) to each send_message in a google-genai chat session and the behavior never changes, this walkthrough shows what is actually happening, why the SDK is designed that way, and three workarounds we use in production for review-summary and reply-draft pipelines.

Gemini API/2026-05-01Intermediate

Why 'contents must alternate between user and model' Won't Go Away in the Gemini API — and How to Fix It

A focused guide to the Gemini API's 'contents must alternate between user and model' error — what really triggers it, why role names from OpenAI break it, and how to fix Function Calling and system_instruction pitfalls with copy-pasteable code.

Gemini API/2026-04-19Intermediate

Gemini API Multi-Turn Chat Breaking: Chat History Management Pitfalls and Fixes

When building multi-turn conversations with the Gemini API, longer chats cause token overflow, slowdowns, and context loss. Learn how to use ChatSession correctly with practical code examples for managing chat history.