**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](/docs/models) 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](/docs/function-calling)
* Semantic Retriever
* Attributed Question Answering (AQA)

* Updated candidate count: Gemini models only return 1 candidate.

* Different Safety Settings and SafetyRating categories. See [safety
settings](/docs/safety-settings) for more details.

* Tuning models is not yet supported for Gemini models (Work in progress).