Are Google planning to put any of their models into production any time soon?
Also somewhat funny that some models are deprecated without a suggested alternative(gemini-2.5-flash-lite). Do they suggest people switch to Claude?
When you build on something that can be rugpulled at any moment, that's really kind of on you.
(Another commenter pointed out that this is the earliest shutdown date and it won't necessarily be shut down on that date).
Where are you getting sept/Oct from? I see gemini-2.5-flash-image in October, but everything else looks like June/July to me?
But like everyone else I'm used to Google failing to care about products.
This held for internal APIs, facilities, systems more even than it did for the outside world. Which is terrible.
My point was that this "more even than it did for the outside world" seemed to downplay how strongly this view of Google from the "outside world" is held.
I just found it amusing that people at Google would assume even my first comment was indicative of being at Google, much less my second comment, rather than being a totally normal thing for someone outside Google to think.
I'm not surprised to hear that this hold inside Google as well. You just don't need any inside knowledge of Google to hold this view.
> Note: The shutdown dates listed in the table indicate the /earliest/ possible dates on which a model might be retired. We will communicate the exact shutdown date to users with advance notice to ensure a smooth transition to a replacement model.
This article[0] talks about 2 being deprecated.
It's still frustrating that they don't have proper production endpoints for 3.0 yet.