Google DeepMind put a retirement notice on chat-bison, reading "May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite".
Google DeepMindDEPRECATIONADDEDTHU OCT 8, 17:03
The line, as the page carries it
+chat-bison: "May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite"
The record
| DOCUMENT | https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/model-versions |
|---|---|
| SOURCE | gdm-model-versions |
| ROW | chat-bison |
| OPERATION | added |
| BEFORE | Nothing was recorded because the row did not exist. |
| AFTER | May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite |
| READ AT | 2026-10-08T17:03:38.744Z |
| SIGNALS | date, modelId |
What went out
- BLUESKY2026-10-08 19:08Google DeepMind’s Google Cloud model-versions page added chat-bison with “May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite” and removed text-bison, textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001, and textembedding-gecko@003 *. #TechBluesky