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Google announces the general availability of Imagen 4, its advanced text-to-image model, in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, featuring significant improvements in text rendering. The new Imagen 4 Fast model, designed for speed and rapid image generation, is now available alongside Imagen 4 and Imagen 4 Ultra, with Imagen 4 and Imagen 4 Ultra also supporting up to 2K resolution image generation.

Apigee helps enterprises integrate large language models (LLMs) into existing API ecosystems securely and scalably, addressing challenges like authentication and authorization not fully covered by the evolving Model Context Protocol (MCP), and offering an open-source MCP server example that demonstrates how to implement enterprise-ready API security for AI agents.

The updated Agent Development Kit (ADK) simplifies and accelerates the process of building AI agents by providing the CLI with a deep, cost-effective understanding of the ADK framework, allowing developers to quickly ideate, generate, test, and improve functional agents through conversational prompts, eliminating friction and keeping them in a productive "flow" state.

The Marin project aims to expand the definition of 'open' in AI to include the entire scientific process, not just the model itself, by making the complete development journey accessible and reproducible. This effort, powered by the JAX framework and its Levanter tool, allows for deep scrutiny, trust in, and building upon foundation models, fostering a more transparent future for AI research.

The `logprobs` feature has been officially introduced in the Gemini API on Vertex AI, provides insight into the model's decision-making by showing probability scores for chosen and alternative tokens. This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to enable and interpret this feature and apply it to powerful use cases such as confident classification, dynamic autocomplete, and quantitative RAG evaluation.

Veo 3, Google’s latest AI video generation model, is now available in paid preview via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Unveiled at Google I/O 2025, Veo 3 can generate both video and synchronized audio, including dialogue, background sounds, and even animal noises. This model delivers realistic visuals, natural lighting, and physics, with accurate lip syncing and sound that matches on-screen action.

Gemini's advanced capability for conversational image segmentation allows intuitive interaction with visual data by understanding complex phrases, conditional logic, and abstract concepts, streamlining developer experience and opening doors for new applications in media editing, safety monitoring, and damage assessment.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, previously in preview, is now stable and generally available. This cost-efficient model is ~1.5x faster than 2.0 Flash-Lite and 2.0 Flash, offers high quality, and includes 2.5 family features like a 1 million-token context window and multimodality.

New AI capabilities for popular frameworks in Firebase Studio include AI-optimized templates, streamlined integration with Firebase backend services, and the ability to fork workspaces for experimentation and collaboration, making AI-assisted app development more intuitive and faster for developers worldwide.

Opal is a new experimental tool from Google Labs that helps you compose prompts into dynamic, multi-step mini-apps using natural language, removing the need for code, allowing users to build and deploy shareable AI apps with powerful features and seamless integration with existing Google tools.