DEVOPSdigest

Google unveiled a significant wave of advancements designed to supercharge how developers build and scale AI applications – from early-stage experimentation right through to large-scale deployment.

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: A new version of Gemini 2.5 Flash offers improved coding and reasoning abilities, along with new efficiency and control features like thought summaries and upcoming thinking budgets, currently available in Preview..

- Gemma 3n: Our latest fast and efficient open multimodal model engineered to run smoothly on phones, laptops, and tablets, handling audio, text, image and video.

- SignGemma: Upcoming open model that translates sign language into spoken language text, enabling developers to create new apps and integrations for deaf and hard of hearing users.

- MedGemma: A multimodal model for medical text and image comprehension for developers to adapt and build new health applications, like analyzing medical images.

- Gemini Diffusion: Experimental demo of a new model Gemini Diffusion that generates at five times the speed of our fastest model so far, while matching its coding performance.

- Colab reimagined: Now a new, fully agentic experience, taking action in your notebook, fixing errors and transforming code to help you solve hard problems faster.

- Jules: Now available to everyone, Jules is an asynchronous coding agent integrated with GitHub that manages bug backlogs, multitasks, initiates new features. Jules also automates repository cloning, Cloud VM setup, and pull request creation.

- Stitch: A new AI-powered tool to generate high-quality UI designs and corresponding frontend code for desktop and mobile by using natural language descriptions or image prompts.

- Google AI Studio updates: The fastest place to start building with the Gemini API, leveraging cutting-edge Gemini 2.5 models along with new generative media models like Imagen, Veo and native image generation. We've also integrated Gemini 2.5 Pro into Google AI Studio's native code editor, enabling you to prototype faster.

- Native Audio Output & Live API: We're also introducing a new Gemini 2.5 Flash model in Preview that include several new features to make it easier to build real-time conversational audio-first applications.

- Native Audio Dialogue: Developers can now use a preview of new Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities to precisely direct voice style, accent, and pace for highly customized AI-generated audio.

- Asynchronous Function Calling: Allows for smoother interactions with improved responsiveness by enabling functions to be executed in the background without blocking the main conversational flow.

- Computer Use API: A new feature for developers to build applications that can browse the web or use other software tools under their direction.

- URL Context: We are adding support for a new experimental tool, URL context, which retrieves full page context from URLs.

- Model Context Protocol: The Gemini API and SDK will now support Model Context Protocol (MCP) to make it easy for developers to use a wide range of open source tools.