Obituaries · Google
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20, ?–2025
Google model switched off
gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20, a Google model that answered questions, wrote emails and was blamed for both, was switched off on November 18, 2025. Calls to its ID are now expected to fail.
Its work passes to gemini-3.6-flash, which the family describes as 'recommended'.
| Model ID | gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20 |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google deprecations page |
| Shut down | November 18, 2025 |
| Successor | gemini-3.6-flash |
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Replace the string. Search your code for gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20 and swap it for gemini-3.6-flash, or paste a repo into Model Graveyard Check to find every dead model at once.
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