gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio — Available — shutdown December 13, 2026
For gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio, provider is Google (Vertex AI); lifecycle status is Available; shutdown / retirement date is December 13, 2026, recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.
- Provider
- Google (Vertex AI) our reading
- Model ID / API name
- gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio verified
- Lifecycle status
- Available
- Release date
- December 12, 2025 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- December 13, 2026 verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio | December 12, 2025 | December 13, 2026 | |
— cloud.google.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Where each value comes from
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Release date
Model ID | Release date | Retirement date | Replacement model | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | July 21, 2026 | July 21, 2027 or later | | gemini-3.5-flash | May 19, 2026 | May 19, 2027 or later | | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | May 7, 2026 | May 7, 2027 or later | | gemini-2.5-pro | June 17, 2025 | October 20, 2026 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-2.5-flash | June 17, 2025 | October 20, 2026 | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | July 22, 2025 | October 20, 2026 | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite or Gemma 4 | gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio | December 12, 2025 | December 13, 2026 | |
— all from cloud.google.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Source
- cloud.google.comhttps://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versioning
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