EmbeddingGemma 2: on-device multimodal embeddings under Apache 2.0
Google DeepMind's 740M open-weight EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, images, video, and audio into one shared 768-dimensional vector space for local search and RAG.
Google Interactions API reaches GA for Gemini
Google promoted the Interactions API to general availability on 2026-06-22: stable schema, Managed Agents, background=True, and the 'From Roles to Steps' migration. Default in AI Studio.
DiffusionGemma: 1,000+ tokens/sec open-weights text gen
Google DeepMind's June 10, 2026 release: a 26B/3.8B text-diffusion model denoising 256 tokens in parallel; ~4x faster than AR on a single H100, Apache 2.0, explicitly experimental.