Obituaries · Google

gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview, ?–2025

Google model switched off

Google has confirmed the retirement of gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview, effective December 9, 2025. It spoke and listened for a living. Requests addressed to it are expected to come back unanswered.

Survived by gemini-3.8-live, younger, cheaper, and named in the same documentation table.

Model ID	`gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview`
Provider	Google deprecations page
Shut down	December 9, 2025
Successor	`gemini-3.8-live`

In lieu of flowers

Replace the string. Search your code for gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview and swap it for gemini-3.8-live, or paste a repo into Model Graveyard Check to find every dead model at once.

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