**Model updates:**

- gemini-pro: New text model for a wide variety of tasks. Balances capability and efficiency.
- gemini-pro-vision: New multimodal model for a wide variety of tasks. Balances capability and efficiency.
- embedding-001: New embeddings model.
- aqa: A new specially tuned model that is trained to answer questions using text passages for grounding generated answers.

See [Gemini models](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini) for more details.

**API version updates:**

- v1: The stable API channel.
- v1beta: Beta channel. This channel has features that may be under development.

See [the API versions topic](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/api-versions) for more details.

**API updates:**

- `GenerateContent` is a single unified endpoint for chat and text.
- Streaming available through the `StreamGenerateContent` method.
- Multimodal capability: Image is a new supported modality
- New beta features:
- [Function Calling](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/function-calling)
- [Semantic Retriever](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/semantic_retrieval)
- Attributed Question Answering (AQA)
- Updated candidate count: Gemini models only return 1 candidate.
- Different Safety Settings and SafetyRating categories. See [safety settings](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/safety-settings) for more details.
- Tuning models is not yet supported for Gemini models (Work in progress).