Gemini

Verified 2026-06-24 for Google AI plans, Gemini app limits, Gemini API model/pricing, image/video API docs, Grounding with Google Search, the Code Assist / Antigravity transition, Gemini Intelligence, and the Workspace privacy boundary.

• June 25: Reported Gemini 3.5 Pro delay keeps buyer docs anchored on Gemini 3.5 Flash until Google publishes official Pro availability, pricing, limits, and model IDs.

• June 24: Gemini 3.5 Flash gained Computer Use in public preview, adding a browser/mobile/desktop agent evaluation path with safety-policy and prompt-injection controls. Treat it as a governed preview, not broad desktop authority.

• June 24: Rechecked Gemini’s high-volatility buyer facts against official Google sources. The main correction remains pricing precision: Gemini 3.5 Flash standard API pricing still differs from batch/flex and priority pricing, so production buyers should not quote one API row for every mode, grounding path, tool call, or media workload.

• June 15 news desk: G7 opened while AI search liability tightened, with a narrower Google AI search risk checklist for AI Overviews liability and Gemini abuse claims. The buyer update does not change Gemini pricing or model guidance, but it does add a governance caution: Google-native search and assistant rollouts need source logs, review paths, and abuse monitoring before customer-facing use.

• June 15: Rechecked Gemini’s current Google sources and added the Code Assist transition caveat. The buyer correction: unpaid-tier Gemini Code Assist for individuals and Google One users should plan around the June 18 shift from Gemini CLI / Code Assist IDE extensions to Antigravity CLI and Antigravity, while Code Assist Standard/Enterprise remains a separate business route.

• June 14: Rechecked Gemini against official Google AI plans, Gemini app limits, Gemini API model/pricing docs, Workspace privacy docs, and Grounding with Google Search. The buyer correction: Gemini 3.5 Flash is stable in the API; Gemini app plan docs expose Flash-Lite, Flash, and Pro access; API docs list Gemini 3.1 Pro as preview, not a stable Gemini 3.5 Pro route.

• June 13: The AI Model Availability & Churn Tracker now treats Gemini 3.5 Flash as the current stable Google default while warning API buyers to replace old or preview Gemini model strings before shutdown dates.

• June 5: Rechecked Gemini against official Gemini 3.5, Gemini API model/pricing, and Google AI subscription pages while refreshing DeepSeek vs Gemini. The buyer takeaway is unchanged: Gemini is the safer finished-product and Google ecosystem choice; DeepSeek is the cheaper API/model-routing experiment.

• June 3: Google Workspace started rolling out Drive-governed sharing for Gemini chats, canvases, and generated media. This makes Gemini outputs easier to manage as Workspace assets rather than throwaway chat history.

• May 21: Google expanded Gemini into Android agents and smart-home partner infrastructure. ADK for Kotlin, ADK for Android, and Gemini for Home show Gemini spreading into developer orchestration, on-device agents, home APIs, cameras, speakers, and provider bundles.

• May 20: Google Marketing Live turned Gemini into an ads, analytics, creative, YouTube, and commerce layer. Marketers now need to treat Gemini as part of paid acquisition and product-discovery infrastructure, not only a chatbot or Search model.

• May 19: Google I/O made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default AI layer for Search, apps, and subscriptions. Google AI Ultra now starts at $100/mo, the old top tier dropped to $200/mo, and AI Mode in Search now uses Gemini 3.5 Flash globally.

• May 19: Gemini Omni launched as Google’s Gemini-native video creation and editing model for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers across Gemini, Flow, Flow Music, and YouTube. Treat it as the Google conversational-editing route; keep Veo 3.1 as the cleaner Google API/Vertex AI pricing route until Omni API pricing is published.

• May 19: Google Antigravity 2.0 and Managed Agents turned Gemini into a developer-agent stack. Managed Agents in the Gemini API run the Antigravity harness in isolated Linux environments and extend Gemini from chat into agent runtime infrastructure.

• May 19: Gemini 3.5 Flash landed in GitHub Copilot, giving Google’s new model immediate distribution inside a mainstream coding assistant outside Google’s own IDE stack.

• May 12: Google rebranded Android around Gemini Intelligence and launched Googlebook at the Android Show: I/O Edition. Gemini Intelligence reads the screen and completes cross-app tasks; Googlebook is a new premium AI-laptop line shipping fall 2026 with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

• May 11: Google Threat Intelligence Group disclosed it caught the first AI-authored zero-day exploit before mass deployment. The attacker used an AI model to write a 2FA bypass for a popular sysadmin tool; Google has not named the model or the tool.

• May 5: Google released MTP drafters to make Gemma 4 inference up to 3x faster. Gemma is the open-weight sibling to Gemini, and the drafter release improves Google’s local and self-hosted model story.

• May 5: Gemini API File Search adds multimodal RAG, metadata filters, and page citations, tightening Google’s managed retrieval story for agents and assistants that mix documents and visual assets.

• May 2: A reported Gemini UI string points to a possible Omni video-generation surface ahead of Google I/O. Treat Omni as speculative until Google confirms it; the strategic watch item is whether Gemini unifies Veo video and Nano Banana image generation under one media workflow.

• May 1: The Pentagon expanded classified-network AI access to eight major vendors, including Google.

• April 30: Gemini started rolling out to cars with Google built in, replacing the older Google Assistant car experience with a more conversational assistant surface. US English support begins first, with broader availability expected over time.

• April 30: EU preliminary findings could force Google to open Android AI integrations. If final measures are adopted, Google may need to give rivals more access to Android assistant surfaces, potentially narrowing Gemini’s default-assistant advantage.

• April 28: Google Translate added AI pronunciation practice on Android. The update shows Gemini-era language features spreading through high-volume Google products, not only the standalone Gemini app.

• April 27: Pentagon users gained access to Gemini 3.1 Pro through GenAI.mil as Defense One reported more than 1.3 million active users and more than 100,000 agents built on the platform.

• April 27: Google DeepMind announced a South Korea AI-for-science partnership, including an AI Campus in Seoul and work with Korean research institutions on life sciences, energy, weather, and climate.

• April 26: Gemini Embedding 2 reaches GA, strengthening Google’s RAG and semantic-search stack around Gemini.

• April 26: Google AI Studio gets a vibe-coding subscription signal, pointing to a more explicit paid path for app-building workflows.

• April 26: Google expands Deep Research on Max, reinforcing Ultra/Max as the tier for heavier autonomous research workloads.

• April 26: Google follows up on TPU infrastructure for the agentic era, keeping Gemini’s compute-cost story central to its enterprise-agent push.

• April 24: A retrieval-poisoning demo showed how fake web evidence can make AI systems repeat a false claim. Gemini search and Deep Research workflows need independent-source checks for low-coverage claims.

• April 23: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform launches with Agent Studio, A2A Orchestration, Registry, Identity, Gateway, and Observability. Google’s most complete enterprise-agent stack to date, built on Vertex AI.

• April 23: AI Industry Roundup, April 23 put Gemini’s Cloud Next agent and TPU announcements beside GPT-5.5, Grok, and EU AI funding signals.

• April 23: Agentic Data Cloud ships: Knowledge Catalog, Data Agent Kit, cross-cloud AI-native Lakehouse. Solves the agent-grounding problem that stalled most 2025 agent pilots.

• April 23: 8th-gen TPU 8t (training) and TPU 8i (inference) unveiled on Cloud Next Day 2. TPU 8t delivers 3x Ironwood performance per superpod; TPU 8i triples on-chip SRAM for agent-serving. Staged availability 2026-2027.

• April 23: Google + Wiz ship Agentic Defense: first post-acquisition Wiz integration. Threat detection, detection engineering, and remediation agents on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

• April 23: $750M partner budget for SIs, consultancies, and startup resellers to distribute Gemini Agents through 2027.

• April 22: Google unveils Ironwood TPU at Cloud Next 2026: 7th-gen, inference-first, 10x peak perf vs TPU v5p, 192 GB HBM3E per chip. Generally available on Google Cloud; expected to power Gemini serving migration through 2026 with downward pricing pressure on Flash and Pro tiers.

• April 22: Google formalizes four-partner silicon coalition (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, TSMC). Roadmap to TPU v8 on TSMC 2nm by late 2027. MediaTek “Zebrafish” inference chip targets 20-30% lower per-token cost than Ironwood.

• April 17: Chrome AI Mode launches desktop side-by-side view. Click a link in AI Mode, Chrome opens the page beside the AI pane instead of replacing it. Plus menu pulls content from open tabs into queries. Distributes Gemini to Chrome’s massive install base as the default browser AI.

• April 21: AI Industry Roundup, April 21 covered Samsung-Gemini expansion, Apple-Gemini Siri reporting, and AI Index follow-ups around Gemini’s consumer distribution.

• April 16: Google in talks to deploy Gemini on Pentagon classified networks. “All lawful purposes” framing similar to OpenAI’s February DoD deal. Google proposed safeguards against domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons use. Reversal of post-Maven 2018 posture.

• April 17: Google Photos ↔ Gemini integration goes live as an opt-in. Paid subscribers can generate images with their own faces and locations via Nano Banana without manually uploading reference photos. First major consumer integration where one toggle unlocks broad library access for generative models.

• April 15: Google Whisk + Doppl shutdown announced for April 30. Doppl’s virtual try-on capability folds into Google Search and Shopping. Whisk fully sunsets. Pattern of Google retiring experimental AI apps into core products continues.

• April 10: Google Gemini ships 3D model generation inside the app. Text or image input produces 3D assets for AR/VR workflows.

• April 2: Google Gemma 4 released under Apache 2.0. Open-weight sibling family to Gemini, fully permissive for commercial use, competes with Llama 4 on open-weight flagship positioning.

Pick Gemini if you live in Google Workspace, rely on Google Search, need image/video tools inside one account, or want the most integrated Google-side assistant bundle. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stable Gemini API model for agentic and coding tasks, while Gemini app plan docs expose Flash-Lite, Flash, and Pro access with higher context and usage on paid plans. Gemini also bundles Workspace, Android, Search, Veo/Gemini Omni media tools, Nano Banana, Antigravity, Jules, NotebookLM, and Google One benefits more tightly than ChatGPT or Claude can.

Skip it if your workload is agentic coding, nuanced long-form writing, or anything outside Google’s ecosystem. Claude Opus 4.8 leads on agentic coding (Claude Code CLI), long-form reasoning, and prose voice; ChatGPT leads on Codex, custom-GPT marketplace, and operator-style agent mode; Midjourney still beats Nano Banana 2 on stylized image quality; Perplexity produces tighter citation-first research than Deep Research.

Who pays which tier: Free for casual access, Google AI Plus for light users, Google AI Pro for most individuals, AI Ultra 5x for higher agent/media/developer usage, and AI Ultra 20x only when you need the highest Gemini app, Antigravity, media, Search-agent, or NotebookLM limits. Verify regional pricing, account eligibility, and live feature access before upgrading.

Primary model, plan, app-limit, API pricing, media, grounding, Workspace privacy, Gemini Intelligence, and Code Assist transition data above was verified against vendor sources on 2026-06-24. See Sources.

• Plan complexity is still high. Free, AI Plus, AI Pro, AI Ultra 5x, and AI Ultra 20x can be confusing, and prices localize. Verify exact feature limits in your own account before buying.
• Rollouts vary. Gemini Spark, Search agents, Omni, Antigravity features, and some media limits vary by region, language, plan, and release stage.
• Consumer model labels and API model IDs differ. Do not assume Gemini app “Pro” access means the same model, availability, pricing, context, or shutdown schedule as an API model ID.
• Coding surfaces are migrating. Unpaid-tier and Google One Code Assist users need to verify the June 18 Antigravity CLI / Antigravity transition before using old Gemini CLI or Gemini Code Assist IDE extension guidance.
• Gemini API pricing and limits need fresh checks. Do not reuse older Gemini 3.1 context or per-token pricing when quoting a new production workload.
• Writing quality defaults to corporate-safe. Prose output is functional but often less distinctive than Claude. If voice matters, do not make Gemini the primary drafter without editing.
• Privacy posture differs by account type. Consumer Google accounts, Workspace Gemini app usage, Google Cloud/AI Studio, and third-party apps do not carry the same terms. Sensitive document work belongs in managed Workspace or Google Cloud contexts, with admin controls documented.
• Model-name churn continues. Google has renamed plans and assistant surfaces repeatedly. Read the current subscription page before buying or publishing pricing.

This page was produced by the aipedia.wiki editorial pipeline, an automated system that ingests vendor documentation, verifies pricing and model details against primary sources, and generates the editorial analysis you are reading. No individual human wrote this review. Scoring follows the four-dimension rubric at /about/scoring/ (Utility x Value x Moat x Longevity, unweighted average). Last refreshed 2026-06-26 against Google’s Gemini model, pricing, app-limit, grounding, Code Assist, image, video, Workspace privacy, and Gemini Intelligence sources. Supporting timeline checks include the June 25 reported Gemini 3.5 Pro delay, June 3 Gemini Drive sharing update, May 21 Gemini ADK and Home infrastructure update, May 20 Marketing Live update, May 19 I/O subscription update, and May 19 Antigravity and Managed Agents update.

What’s the difference between Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Pro? Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stable Gemini API model Google positions for sustained frontier performance on agentic and coding tasks. In the Gemini app, Google describes model access as Flash-Lite, Flash, and Pro by plan; in current API docs, the Pro row to verify is Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. Do not assume a stable Gemini 3.5 Pro API route until it appears in official docs.

Is Gemini free? Yes. The free tier gives limited Gemini access. Google AI Pro remains the mainstream paid tier, but pricing localizes by country. AI Ultra now has a lower 5x tier and a higher 20x tier for heavier media, agent, Antigravity, Search, NotebookLM, and Gemini app limits.

How does Gemini compare to Claude and ChatGPT? Pick Gemini for Google ecosystem work: Search, Gmail, Docs, Drive, Android, YouTube, Google Cloud, and Antigravity. Pick Claude for long-form reasoning and Claude Code. Pick ChatGPT when you want the broadest general assistant, Codex, GPT Image 2, and OpenAI’s plugin-style ecosystem.

What is Deep Research and how does it compare to Perplexity? Deep Research is Gemini’s autonomous research agent. Perplexity is usually faster for iterative source-first research. Gemini is more valuable when the research output needs to stay inside Google’s broader assistant and Workspace ecosystem.

What changed at I/O 2026? Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash broadly, made it the default model for AI Mode in Search, announced more agentic Gemini app features, expanded Antigravity and Managed Agents for developers, and reset Google AI Ultra pricing to lower and higher usage-limit tiers. The June 24 check adds two follow-on caveats: API buyers must separate standard, batch/flex, and priority pricing, and unpaid-tier or Google One Code Assist users should plan around the June 18 Antigravity migration.

• Category: AI Chatbots · AI Writing · AI Search
• Google media tools: Gemini Omni · Google Veo 3.1 · Imagen 4