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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available! It's our most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet, *and* you can try it on Vertex AI today! goo.gle/4mb43qT

AI runs better here 👇

Join the discussion in the new Google Developer Program forums! 💬 Get code feedback 🤝 Connect with experts ✍️ Contribute articles 💡 Find a wealth of existing knowledge from Google devs Learn more → goo.gle/4f6BpEL

We expanded Compute flexible committed use discounts! Compute Flexible CUDs now cover eligible spend on memory-optimized VM instances & compute-optimized H3 instances. Plus, flexible CUDs extend to your Cloud Run request-based billing & Cloud Functions → goo.gle/45izhXh

Learn how to tap into natural language AI services using the Conversational Analytics API → goo.gle/455d9iX Now in preview, the API integrates multiple AI-powered tools to process user requests, including NL2Query and a Python code interpreter for generating responses.

It’s now easier than ever to leverage Gemini in Firebase Studio to build beautiful, powerful apps in more of your preferred frameworks and languages. Explore Firebase Studio’s new AI-optimized templates, streamlined backend integration, and more ↓

Take this lab to learn how: - RAG enhances LLM capabilities - AlloyDB can be used to find relevant information - Vertex AI and Google's foundation models can provide powerful gen AI capabilities to apps Start building an LLM and RAG-based chat app → goo.gle/4ldO6jj

In this quick demo, we show how to build a competition-aware social scheduling tool using Firebase Studio, Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Agentspace all working together to help teams make smarter, faster content decisions. @StephanieNAnani talks you through it ⤵️

Have you checked out BigLake Iceberg native storage yet? Read how it leverages Google’s Cloud Storage to provide an enterprise-grade experience for managing and interoperating with Iceberg data → goo.gle/3TztYw5

You can set up event-driven transfers that automatically load data from Cloud Storage into BigQuery when it detects changes to your Cloud Storage files. Here's a guide to event-driven transfers from Cloud Storage to BigQuery → goo.gle/3THsPm9

New Gemini 2.5 Flash fine-tuning guide. 📖 Learn how to perform supervised fine-tuning on the new Gemini 2.5 Flash model for high-quality summarization. 👉 This hands-on guide walks you through the entire process, from loading your dataset to evaluating the tuned model. Link…

What you'll be building in the "Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen" course: 1) AI Image Recognition app 2) AI Image Generator app 3) Application to send Chat Prompts 4) Multi-modal gen AI application Earn your skill badge today → goo.gle/4kwrkCn

ADK tool type #1: Function Tool This is an inline function that can perform a calculation or an algorithm. Here’s what that looks like in action ⬇️ Learn more about this ADK tool → goo.gle/3TJYuDz