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●DEPRECATION — The two image preview models shut down today, June 25; automations using them must migrate immediately●GA — In their place, gemini-3.1-flash-image and gemini-3-pro-image are now the generally available native image models●MEDIA — Video-to-image generation arrives: pass a video as context to create high-quality thumbnails (3.1 flash image only)●AUDIO — Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview lands: a low-cost, expressive, steerable text-to-speech model●MODEL — Gemini 3.5 Flash is GA, beating 3.1 Pro on nearly every benchmark while running about 4x faster●SEARCH — File Search now supports multimodal search, embedding and searching images natively via gemini-embedding-2●DEPRECATION — The two image preview models shut down today, June 25; automations using them must migrate immediately●GA — In their place, gemini-3.1-flash-image and gemini-3-pro-image are now the generally available native image models●MEDIA — Video-to-image generation arrives: pass a video as context to create high-quality thumbnails (3.1 flash image only)●AUDIO — Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview lands: a low-cost, expressive, steerable text-to-speech model●MODEL — Gemini 3.5 Flash is GA, beating 3.1 Pro on nearly every benchmark while running about 4x faster●SEARCH — File Search now supports multimodal search, embedding and searching images natively via gemini-embedding-2
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◈ Gemini API/2026-06-25Advanced

The Morning a Preview Image Model Went Dark — Migrating to GA Gemini Image Models and Building a Deprecation-Resilient Pipeline

With gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview and gemini-3-pro-image-preview retired, here is how to migrate to the GA models and design an image pipeline that no longer gets caught off guard by deprecation dates — with code and cost math, plus video-to-image thumbnail automation.