Google deprecates Veo 3 and Imagen 4 in the Gemini API, with Veo shutdown set for June 30
Google has announced end-of-life dates for several of its Gemini API video and image generation models, with Veo 2.0 and Veo 3.0 shutting down on June 30, 2026 — eight days away — and Imagen 4 models following on August 17, 2026.
What's new
Video generation (shut down June 30, 2026):
veo-2.0-generate-001veo-3.0-generate-001veo-3.0-fast-generate-001
Developers must migrate to Veo 3.1 using model IDs veo-3.1-generate-preview or veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview, or the 3.1 GA models available through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Image generation (shut down August 17, 2026):
imagen-4.0-generate-001imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001
Also retired June 15: The experimental GMP Contextual View tool — a fixed interface for Grounding with Google Maps outputs — has been shut down.
Streaming support for speech generation also landed on June 17 as a separate update: streamGenerateContent (and stream: true in the Interactions API) is now supported for the gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview model.
Context
The Veo and Imagen model lines have been Google's primary video and image generation offerings in the Gemini API developer tier. The rapid succession from 3.0 to 3.1 for Veo reflects a product acceleration that made the older model IDs obsolete quickly. The Imagen 4 deprecation is similarly superseded by newer generation pipelines, though developers have more lead time (two months) before those stop responding.
Why it matters
The Veo deadline is immediate: any production integration using veo-3.0-generate-001 or veo-2.0-generate-001 will stop working in eight days. Unlike Imagen 4, there is no long runway. Developers building video-generation features on top of the Gemini API should treat this as urgent — the migration path is a model ID swap to the 3.1 preview or GA identifiers, but testing in a non-production environment first is advisable given the generational change in output quality and behavior.
Corroborating sources
- Ai.google
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog.md.txt
“The following video generation models are being deprecated and will be shut down on June 30, 2026: `veo-2.0-generate-001`, `veo-3.0-generate-001`, `veo-3.0-fast-generate-001`”