Guide for using Google Gemini model API
Google provided an answer in the official Gemini FAQ that made many developers nervous: "Gemini Omni is our latest video editing and generation model that will replace Veo in the Gemini app." This statement sparked a wave of discussion in the English-speaking community—is Veo being phased out? Can we still use Veo 3.1 on Vertex…
Following the launch of Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 19, 2026, the developer community isn't asking "does it work?" but rather "can it directly replace the Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview models we've been running since late last year?" Google has repeatedly emphasized that 3.5 Flash "outperforms 3.1 Pro" in coding, tool calling, and Agent tasks….
Many teams automatically migrated all their Gemini traffic to Gemini 3.5 Flash after its GA release on May 19, 2026, including high-frequency, lightweight tasks like translation, subtitle generation, and content moderation. This is a clear misjudgment. For scenarios where inputs and outputs are short, price-sensitive, latency-sensitive, and don't require agentic tool orchestration, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite…
On May 19, 2026, Google officially launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at the I/O 2026 conference. As the first public model in the Gemini 3.5 series, it uses the API ID gemini-3.5-flash directly without a "preview" suffix, signaling that it is already in GA (General Availability) status. On the same day, the APIYI (apiyi.com) platform completed…
When using the Nano Banana Pro API for architectural rendering, product image base-layering, or e-commerce scene generation, you might encounter a head-scratcher: you upload two reference images and write a clear prompt, but the result looks like a "carbon copy" of one of the originals, completely ignoring your editing instructions. This phenomenon has become significantly…
With the Google I/O 2026 keynote just a day away, Google can no longer keep its secrets under wraps. On May 5, developers managed to extract Gemini 3.2 Flash from the iOS Gemini app and Google AI Studio, while the "Liquid Glass" interface for the web version was also leaked ahead of schedule. The most…
Many developers migrating from Stable Diffusion or Midjourney to Nano Banana Pro often encounter a confusing 400 error on their first API call: Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "negativePrompt" at 'generation_config.image_config': Cannot find field. The error message is blunt but lacks clarity: is the field name misspelled, does it need to be moved, or…
On May 4, 2026, Google officially announced on its blog: Event-driven webhooks are now available in Gemini API. Two days later, on May 6 at 10:00 AM (Beijing Time), this email from Google AI Studio hit the inboxes of developers worldwide, marking the full rollout of Gemini API webhooks to all users. For many teams…
Author's Note: Getting a "Base64 decoding failed 400" error when calling gemini-3-pro-image-preview? This guide breaks down the 6 most common causes, provides correct implementation examples in Python, JavaScript, and cURL, and gives you a 5-step troubleshooting plan. Are you running into this 400 error when calling the gemini-3-pro-image-preview API? { "status_code": 400, "error": { "message":…
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