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New Gemini Live model release
Google released the latest version of the Gemini Live model today. This is still the 2.5 series (not based on Gemini 3, yet)
Using the AI Studio APIs, the model name is: gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025
I've been experimenting with the checkpoints for a couple of weeks, and it's pretty similar to the previous version. (flash-native-audio-preview-09-2025). They focused a lot on tool calling reliability in this release, because everybody told them they needed to make tool calling more reliable! It's definitely better on their benchmarks, but I generally found you could prompt the model pretty well to do tool calling until you get fairly deep in a multi-turn conversation, in which case all bets are off. What we really need from this API is good context engineering capabilities!
Interestingly, the model is also GA today (not preview) on Google Cloud Vertex.
The Vertex model name is gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio
I don't really understand the Vertex thinking, here, other than that Vertex can give you contracts for committed TPU capacity, which removes one of the variables that makes it hard to deliver reliable latencies for a model like this.
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