something we will explore in the future is a time bound free tier so that folks can explore our new models but also in parallel while folks scale we can use capacity for thme!
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AI Studio launches new usage dashboard and rate limit features
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Tool Use Reliability Improvements in AI Systems
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you share any examples? tool use should be much more reliable now
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Google Gemini API Rate Limits and Free Credits for New Customers
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If you want to keep scaling up on the API, pls check out the rate limit increase page and request a higher tier: https://
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Gemini 2.5 Pro free tier API access temporarily paused
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There continues to be huge demand for Gemini 2.5 Pro!! We are going to temporarily pause the Gemini 2.5 Pro free tier access in the API in order to ensure devs building can keep scaling up. You can still access the model for free in http://
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Practical AI Tools and Applications Coming Soon
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Will be a mix, but lots of focus on stuff people can actually use right away!
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Google IO 2026: Major AI Progress Announcements Coming
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So much hard work by so many teams to make Google IO possible and exciting, can’t wait to be able to share all the progress : )
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API Reliability and Model Capacity Management Strategy
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We are super focused on having a world class, production scale, reliable API service. Lots of work to do still. In general, for older models (1.5), what tends to happen is capacity is moved to other models as usage goes down. Then someone shows up and does a large scale abusive
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Reliable World-Class AI Service Standards Beyond Preview Status
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true but we still need to provide a reliable world class service, regardless of if we say a model is "preview" or not
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Scaling Infrastructure Limits Through Improved Quota Tiers
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yeah, sorry about that, we have been working very hard to scale up limits, quota tiers are a big improvement but much to do still: