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May 20, 2025

Gemini
**API updates:**

- Launched support for [custom video preprocessing](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/video-understanding#customize-video-processing) using clipping intervals and configurable frame rate sampling.
- Launched multi-tool use, which supports configuring [code execution](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/code-execution) and [Grounding with Google Search](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/grounding) on the same `generateContent` request.
- Launched support for [asynchronous function calls](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live-tools#async-function-calling) in the Live API.
- Launched an experimental [URL context tool](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/url-context) for providing URLs as additional context to prompts.

**Model updates:**

- Released `gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20`, a Gemini [preview](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#model-versions) model optimized for price-performance and adaptive thinking. To learn more, see [Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#gemini-2.5-flash-preview) and [Thinking](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/thinking).
- Released the [`gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts`](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts) and [`gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts`](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts) models, which are capable of [generating speech](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/speech-generation) with one or two speakers.
- Released the `lyria-realtime-exp` model, which [generates music](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/music-generation) in real time.
- Released `gemini-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-dialog` and `gemini-2.5-flash-exp-native-audio-thinking-dialog`, new Gemini models for the Live API with native audio output capabilities. To learn more, see the [Live API guide](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live-guide#native-audio-output) and [Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio).
- Released `gemma-3n-e4b-it` preview, available on [AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com) and through the Gemini API, as part of the [Gemma 3n](https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/3n) launch.
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