AI Briefing — Google Gemini 1.5 Pro Enters General Availability
Google announced Gemini 1.5 Pro general availability on May 14, 2024, delivering multimodal 2 million-token context windows, grounding APIs, and enterprise governance controls through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
Executive briefing: Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Pro general availability during Google I/O on . The model targets enterprise developers with extended context windows, multimodal reasoning, and responsible AI tooling.
Key updates
- Long-context reasoning. Gemini 1.5 Pro supports up to 2 million tokens for codebases, videos, and document corpora.
- Multimodal inputs. Developers can blend text, audio, and imagery through Google AI Studio, with Vertex AI grounding APIs for enterprise data.
- Governance controls. Vertex AI offers configurable safety filters, data controls, and audit logging for regulated workloads.
Implementation guidance
- Pilot Gemini 1.5 Pro for requirements analysis, documentation synthesis, and multimodal support workflows.
- Configure Vertex AI data governance settings to segregate customer data and enforce least-privilege access.
- Integrate grounding APIs and safety filters into application pipelines before exposing Gemini outputs to end users.