About Google Gemini
Google DeepMind's multimodal model family.
Gemini is the LLM family built by Google DeepMind, the AI research arm formed when DeepMind and Google Brain merged in April 2023. The first generation (Gemini 1.0) was announced in December 2023 as Google's answer to GPT-4, with multimodality built in from the start rather than bolted on as a separate vision model. Gemini 1.5 Pro then introduced the long-context era in February 2024 with a 1M-token window, and the line has shipped roughly twice a year since: Gemini 2.0 Flash at the end of 2024, Gemini 2.5 Pro in March 2025, and the Gemini 3 series with Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash and Gemini 3 Flash-Lite as the current generation.
Two things set Gemini apart from the rest of the LLM market. The context window is genuinely long: Gemini 3 Pro keeps the 1M-token capacity, which is enough to fit a full codebase, hundreds of pages of contracts, or hours of video transcript in a single prompt. And the multimodality is native: text, images, audio, video, code and PDFs go through the same model rather than through a vision tower glued onto a text model. Access splits along audience: Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com) is the consumer and developer surface for prototyping, the Gemini API is the direct programmatic interface, and Vertex AI on Google Cloud is the enterprise route with grounding on Google Search or Vertex AI Search, function calling, context caching, VPC controls and per-region data residency.