The Imagen 4 shutdown is now effective, not merely scheduled. Builders still calling the old model IDs need to migrate to current Gemini image generation, where model names and interaction patterns differ enough to warrant explicit compatibility testing.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now generally available with a 1M-token context window, tunable reasoning, stronger coding and agentic performance, and introductory API pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31, 2026.
Gemini API Managed Agents now combine Gemini 3.7 Flash by default with environment hooks, token budgets, scheduled triggers and persistent sandboxes — a much more production-shaped agent runtime.