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May 20, 2025 {% id="05-20-2025" %}

Gemini
**API updates:**

* Launched support for [custom video preprocessing](/docs/video-understanding#customize-video-processing)
using clipping intervals and configurable frame rate sampling.

* Launched multi-tool use, which supports configuring [code
execution](/docs/code-execution) and [Grounding with Google
Search](/docs/google-search) on the same `generateContent` request.

* Launched support for [asynchronous function calls](/docs/live-api/tools#async-function-calling)
in the Live API.

* Launched an experimental [URL context tool](/docs/url-context) for providing
URLs as additional context to prompts.


**Model updates:**

* Released `gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20`, a Gemini
[preview](/docs/models#model-versions) model optimized for price-performance
and adaptive thinking. To learn more, see [Gemini 2.5 Flash
Preview](/docs/models) and
[Thinking](/docs/thinking).

* Released the [`gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts`](/docs/models)
and
[`gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts`](/docs/models)
models, which are capable of [generating speech](/docs/speech-generation)
with one or two speakers.

* Released the `lyria-realtime-exp` model, which [generates
music](/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](/docs/live-api/capabilities#native-audio-output) and
[Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio](/docs/models).

* 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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