Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries; with Native Audio Understanding, System Instructions, JSON Mode and more- Google Developers Blog

This post announces the public preview availability of Gemini 1.5 Pro in 180+ countries via the Gemini API. Key new features include native audio (speech) understanding, a File API for handling files, system instructions for controlling model behavior, JSON mode for structured data output, and improvements to function calling. It also introduces a new text embedding model, text-embedding-004 (Gecko), which offers enhanced performance.