Google announced updates to the Gemini API's Structured Outputs, adding support for JSON Schema and improving property ordering. This will help developers ensure consistent data extraction and facilitate agent communication in AI applications.

Google has released updates for the Gemini API, enhancing its Gemini 3 model. Key features include new parameters for controlling reasoning depth, image processing, and thought signatures to maintain context in conversations. These updates aim to improve developers' control and efficiency when building applications.

The article details the author's frustrating experience trying to obtain a Google Gemini API key for a coding project. After navigating a confusing array of Google services and verification steps, the author ultimately gained access, but not without significant hassle and delays.

Users in an organization must be assigned licenses to use Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise, with options for automatic or manual assignment. License management requires specific IAM roles and can be performed through the Google Cloud console or API. Administrators can also track license usage and adjust the number of licenses as needed.

Google has launched the Gemini Embedding model (gemini-embedding-001), now available to developers via the Gemini API and Vertex AI, showcasing superior performance on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark. This versatile model supports over 100 languages and features flexible output dimensions, allowing developers to optimize for performance and cost. Users are encouraged to migrate from older models before their deprecation dates, with enhanced features like Batch API support coming soon.

The Gemini Batch API now supports the new Gemini Embedding model and offers compatibility with the OpenAI SDK for batch processing. This enhancement allows developers to utilize the model at a significantly lower cost and higher rate limits, facilitating cost-sensitive and latency-tolerant use cases. A few lines of code are all that's needed to get started with batch embeddings or to switch from OpenAI SDK compatibility.

Google has launched an early preview of Gemini 2.5 Flash, enhancing reasoning capabilities while maintaining speed and cost efficiency. This hybrid reasoning model allows developers to control the thinking process and budget, resulting in improved performance for complex tasks. The model is now available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, encouraging experimentation with its features.