**API updates:**

* Introduced a 2M context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro (waitlist).

* Introduced pay-as-you-go [billing](/docs/billing) for Gemini 1.0 Pro, with
Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash billing coming soon.

* Introduced increased rate limits for the upcoming paid tier of Gemini 1.5
Pro.

* Added built-in video support to the [File
API](https://ai.google.dev/api/rest/v1beta/files).

* Added plain text support to the [File
API](https://ai.google.dev/api/rest/v1beta/files).

* Added support for parallel function calling, which returns more than one
call at a time.