Gemini release notes

This page documents production updates to Gemini. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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April 09, 2024

Added ability to provide direct links to Cloud console pages that are relevant to users' prompts. Also improved response formatting to better handle longer responses.

Enabled contextualization in responses by incorporating a set of basic user data and their environment data into the prompts. Also, expanded data sources for grounding and improved response accuracy via RAG.

The Code Transformation features in Gemini Code Assist are now available in Public Preview for Cloud Shell. For more information, see Use Code Transformation features.

Gemini Code Assist is available to try at no cost until July 11, 2024, limited to one user per billing account. Customers can purchase a license on the Gemini Admin page in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Set up Gemini Code Assist for a project.

The Transform Code features in Gemini Code Assist are now available in Public Preview for Workstations and Cloud Shell.

Gemini in Security Command Center is released to General Availability. For more information, see Gemini features in Security Command Center.

The following Gemini in BigQuery features are now available in Public Preview:

To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in BigQuery features, see Set up Gemini in BigQuery.

The following Gemini in Databases features are now available in Public Preview:

  • Database Center: an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you one centralized view across your entire database fleet.
  • Cloud SQL Studio: lets authorized users interact directly with the SQL database and run SQL queries from the Google Cloud console to access and manipulate data.
  • Monitor active queries: monitor and troubleshoot the queries that are active in your database.
  • Index advisor: a fully managed index advisor that tracks the queries your database handles regularly.
  • 4-week query metric retention in the Query Insights dashboard.
  • 15 new database insight recommendations.

To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in Databases, see Set up Gemini in Databases.

The following Gemini in Databases features are now available in Public Preview:

  • Database Center: an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you one centralized view across your entire database fleet.
  • AlloyDB Studio (GA): lets authorized users interact directly with the SQL database and run SQL queries from the Google Cloud console to access and manipulate data.
  • Monitor active queries: monitor and troubleshoot the queries that are active in your database.
  • Index advisor: a fully managed index advisor that tracks the queries your database handles regularly.
  • Enhanced Query Insights: an assistive query performance diagnostics platform that lets you detect, troubleshoot, and prevent database and query performance problems in near real-time.
  • 4-week query metric retention in the Query Insights dashboard.
  • 5 new database insight recommendations.

To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in Databases, see Set up Gemini in Databases.

The following Gemini in Databases features are now available in Public Preview:

  • Spanner Studio (GA): lets users interact with the SQL database and run SQL queries from the Google Cloud console to access and manipulate data.
  • Spanner now supports the use of Gemini models with GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL machine learning prediction functions.

To learn how to enable and activate Gemini in Databases, see Set up Gemini in Databases.

April 03, 2024

The Gemini Code Assist code generation feature now allows users to generate code repeatedly at the same cursor location.

Fixed an issue where handling very small .csv, .tsv, and .jsonl files crashed the Gemini Cloud Code extension.

Fixed an issue where empty files weren't being included as chat context.

Fixed telemetry data issue in the VSCode Gemini Code Assist plug-in.

March 26, 2024

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Duet AI in Google Cloud is now Gemini for Google Cloud. See our blog post for more information.

March 20, 2024

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Retrieval-augmented generation is rolling out in the Intellij Duet AI plug-in as an experiment to select users to improve code suggestions for their repository.

Added thumbs up and thumbs down buttons in the Intellij Duet AI plug-in chat window for quick response quality feedback .

Improved notifications when the Intellij Duet AI plug-in needs action or has an error.

The Intellij Duet AI plug-in Skaffold version has been updated to 2.10.1

The context source panel in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in chat window now displays which file was included in the user's chat request.

Local code customization is enabled in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in as an experiment to select users to improve code suggestions. Additional files in the user's local directory will open when the user requests code generation. Local files are scored and included in the response based on relevance to the user's active context.

Improved error handling and messaging in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in code editor and in chat. Error specific actions are now provided to better assist users in resolving errors.

Improved confusing messaging and troubleshooting steps for permission denied errors and API enablement errors in the VSCode Duet AI plug-in.

March 19, 2024

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You can now use Duet AI to help you create a synthetic monitor in Cloud Monitoring. This feature is in Public Preview. For more information, see Create a synthetic monitor.

March 14, 2024

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Updated Duet AI for Developers chat assistance and Smart Actions to use Gemini 1.0 Pro models.

Updated Duet AI for Developers code completion model to increase response accuracy.

Improved code completion triggering logic to reduce occurrences of code completion previously dismissed.

Duet AI Chat in Google Cloud console now uses Gemini 1.0 Pro models when giving responses.

February 21, 2024

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Duet AI admin controls are now available to add or change your subscriptions on the Duet AI Admin page in the Google Cloud console.

Duet AI Chat in the Google Cloud Console includes basic contextual information (project ID, product area, page title, and organization ID) when giving responses. Google Cloud CLI (gcloud) commands and other code may incorporate user context directly into the generated code snippet.

January 31, 2024

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Duet AI for Developers is available to try at no cost until May 11, 2024, limited to one user per billing account. Customers can purchase a license on the Duet AI Admin page in the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Set up Duet AI for a project.

December 13, 2023

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Duet AI, an AI-powered collaborator in Google Cloud, is Generally available. The Generally available release includes the following:

  • Duet AI for Developers is Generally available.
  • The Duet AI pane in VSCode, JetBrains, Cloud Workstations and Cloud Shell Editor uses an improved model with higher accuracy and more complete responses.
  • In VSCode, a sign-in expiration issue for Duet AI has been fixed.
  • In VSCode and JetBrains IDEs, you can enable Duet AI entirely from the IDE instead of visiting the Google Cloud console.
  • In VSCode and JetBrains IDEs, improved filtering and sorting reduces the amount of generated code that contains only comments.
  • Improved logic for defining the final code completion token. This resolves issues where extra closing brackets were suggested and where lines of code broken in the middle were returned.
  • In JetBrains IDEs, Duet AI cancels code generation when the user changes the code position before a response is returned. This ensures generated code isn't rendered in the wrong place.

November 01, 2023

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Duet AI code generation and code completion latency has been reduced when it's used in IntelliJ and VSCode.

The following improvements have been made when using using IntelliJ IDEA and other JetBrains IDEs with Duet AI:

  • Duet AI supports linux ARM builds in IntelliJ
  • A daily sign-in expiration issue has been fixed.
  • Linux support on JetBrains IDE's has been improved.
  • Chat in IntelliJ and JetBrains IDEs is available in Preview.
  • Confidence scoring is enabled which should improve code completion quality.

You don't need to switch between using REST and gRPC when using Duet AI. Duet AI does this for you.

Duet AI added multi-file support for code generation.

Duet AI has an improved threshold to filter out low quality code completions.

Duet AI for VS Code provides an indication that code generation is in progress.

Duet AI in Google Cloud has fewer false positive responses and increased its response length for questions about code.

Chat in Duet AI in Google Cloud can be opened in a new browser tab while maintaining your current chat session.

August 29, 2023

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Duet AI, an AI-powered collaborator in Google Cloud, is now available in Preview.