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

TAG

video understanding

2 articles

← Back to all tags

multimodal² Files API² Gemini Omni Flash¹ cost design¹ Gemini API¹ indie developer¹

◈ Gemini API/2026-07-05Advanced

Collapsing Video Understanding into One Native Call with Omni Flash

How I replaced an ffmpeg frame-extraction pipeline (7-9 calls per clip) with a single native Omni Flash call, the measured differences, and the boundaries where keeping frame sampling still wins.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-28Advanced

Read Video with Timestamps in the Gemini API: Pull Just the Scene You Need

Hunting for 'where was that step?' in a screen recording or app demo is a chore. Here is how to use Gemini API video understanding to pull just the right scene with timestamps, plus a design that keeps tokens down with FPS and resolution.