Obituaries · Google
gemini-embedding-2-preview, ?–2026
Retired by Google
gemini-embedding-2-preview passed away on August 10, 2026, by scheduled deprecation, in a data center it never saw. It turned sentences into numbers, quietly, millions of times a day. Code that still calls it will find out the hard way.
Survived by gemini-embedding-2, younger, cheaper, and named in the same documentation table.
| Model ID | gemini-embedding-2-preview |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google deprecations page |
| Shut down | August 10, 2026 |
| Successor | gemini-embedding-2 |
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