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Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview: Next-Level Image Generation on Vertex AI

Tal Peretz

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Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview: Next-Level Image Generation on Vertex AI

Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview, now available on Vertex AI, brings substantial enhancements to AI-driven image generation and multimodal capabilities. This latest release, known as gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation, significantly expands the boundaries of AI-powered visual storytelling, character consistency, and multimodal content creation.

What's New in Gemini 2.0 Flash?

  • Consistent Character Generation: Generate multiple images with consistent characters, maintaining details such as clothing and facial features.
  • Advanced Pose Modification: Change the pose of subjects within images without affecting the surrounding environment or attire, ideal for dynamic storytelling and visual prototyping.
  • Visual Storytelling: Create cohesive, sequential images that rival professional animation studios. The output quality is often compared to high-standard visuals seen in Pixar movies.
  • Realistic Image Creation: Gemini 2.0 Flash delivers images with realism comparable to specialized models, making it versatile across various visual applications.

Practical Use Cases of Gemini 2.0 Flash

Gemini 2.0 Flash is particularly suited for:

  1. Visual storytelling and animation: Produce cohesive, high-quality scenes for animations, storyboards, and digital content.
  2. Rapid prototyping: Quickly test and iterate visual concepts, character designs, and creative ideas with minimal manual editing.
  3. Interactive applications: Enhance user experiences with conversational image generation, integrated directly into chat and multimodal interfaces.
  4. Multimodal AI applications: Seamlessly integrate image, text, audio, and video generation into cohesive, interactive content.

Getting Started with Gemini 2.0 Flash on Vertex AI

Here's a quick example of how to generate images using Gemini 2.0 Flash:

from google import genai
from google.genai import types

client = genai.Client(api_key="YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY")

response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation",
    contents=("Show me how to bake a macaron with images."),
    config=types.GenerateContentConfig(
        response_modalities=["TEXT", "IMAGE"]
    ),
)

Pricing and Availability

The Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview is accessible via Vertex AI and Google AI Studio:

  • Input Price: $0.10 per 1 million tokens
  • Output Price: $0.40 per 1 million tokens
  • Max Tokens per Request: 8,192 tokens
  • Function Calling Support: Yes

Google continues to enhance the model's capabilities, promising future updates with improved quality, expanded features, and higher rate limits.

When to Consider Alternatives

While Gemini 2.0 Flash excels in versatility and visual consistency, consider other specialized models if your project:

  • Needs highly specialized or niche artistic styles.
  • Requires fully mature, production-ready capabilities (Gemini 2.0 Flash is currently in preview).
  • Involves extremely high volumes that might exceed preview rate limits.

Explore Multimodal Innovation

Gemini 2.0 Flash isn’t limited to images alone—it supports robust multimodal input and output:

  • Inputs: Text, images, audio, video
  • Outputs: Images, text, steerable text-to-speech audio
  • Integration: Native support for Google Search, code execution, and third-party functions

Try Out Gemini 2.0 Flash Today

Ready to leverage the powerful capabilities of Gemini 2.0 Flash? Google offers a Gemini Co-Drawing Sample App via AI Studio, enabling creative professionals and developers alike to explore and experiment with this cutting-edge technology.

Dive in today and transform your visual storytelling and creative workflows with Gemini 2.0 Flash on Vertex AI.

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