
What Gemini is
Gemini is Google's flagship family of multimodal large language models and the consumer AI assistant at gemini.google.com, launched in 2023 (originally as Bard) by Google DeepMind. In 2026 the Gemini 3.x line delivers a 1M-token context window, Deep Research agents, Gemini Live voice, Veo video, and Imagen/Nano Banana image generation across Search, Workspace, Android, Apple Siri, and Vertex AI.
Funding snapshot
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Key features
- Multimodal reasoning across text, image, audio, video, and code (Gemini 3.x family)
- Deep Research multi-step agent for autonomous web research
- Gemini Live voice and camera conversation with audio-to-audio model
- Deep Think extended reasoning mode for complex problems
- Veo video generation and Imagen / Nano Banana image generation
- 1M-token context window on the current Gemini 3.8 Flash with Search and Maps grounding
- Personal Intelligence across Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search
Where it lives
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Sources & media
- Google Gemini (chatbot) · Wikipedia
- Gemini (language model) · Wikipedia
- About Google AI plans · Google One
- Gemini for Google Cloud overview · Google Cloud documentation
- Gemini 3.5 Flash model documentation · Google AI for Developers
- Gemini 3.8 Flash model card — specifications and limits · Google AI for Developers (official)
- Gemini API model list · Google AI for Developers (official)
- Gemini release notes (Google Cloud) · Google Cloud documentation (official)
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