
Gemini Speech Preview Dies Nov. 17, and Its Successor Returns WAV
Swap the model name, move voice styles out of prompts and stop adding WAV headers before Nov. 17, when Firebase AI Logic's TTS preview shuts down.
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Swap the model name, move voice styles out of prompts and stop adding WAV headers before Nov. 17, when Firebase AI Logic's TTS preview shuts down.

Change the model string and drop thinking_budget and sampling parameters before Dec. 1, or Gemini 2.5 requests get rerouted to Gemini 3 models.

Find released app versions that lack App Check before Nov. 2, or push enforcement back to Jan. 21 in the console. Unverified Gemini calls will fail.

Firebase AI Logic now runs developer-written Cloud Functions before and after every Gemini request, letting teams moderate, cap or redact calls server-side.

Firebase's Imagen shutdown, pushed back once already, hits today. The replacement Google pointed everyone to already has its own October expiration date.

Firebase's JS SDK deprecates VertexAIBackend for AgentPlatformBackend, and the new class defaults to global instead of us-central1.

Firebase AI Logic now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper than 3.5 Flash, but Google shipped no flagship model alongside them.

Firebase's console setup flow for AI Logic now turns on App Check automatically, closing off a common way developers shipped apps with an open Gemini API proxy.

Apple opened Foundation Models to cloud AI providers at WWDC 2026. Firebase AI Logic is now the Gemini entry point for iOS 27, in preview.

All Imagen models in Firebase AI Logic shut down June 24. Apps still calling them are broken. Here's the migration path to Gemini's Nano Banana models.