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Detecting and Editing Visual Objects with Gemini

A practical guide to identifying, restoring, and transforming elements within your images

Detecting and Editing Visual Objects with Gemini

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Sep 23, 2025

Generating Consistent Imagery with Gemini Nano Banana 🍌

A practical guide to building a prompt-based generation pipeline for your image library

Generating Consistent Imagery with Gemini Nano Banana 🍌

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Aug 29, 2025

Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 1: 🔥 Challenge

Explore how to transcribe videos with detailed speaker identification in a single prompt

Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 1: 🔥 Challenge

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Jul 4, 2024

Counting Gemini text tokens locally

🧩 The Vertex AI SDK for Python now offers local tokenization to calculate the number of tokens in your text input.

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Jun 16, 2023

Moderating text with the Natural Language API

The Natural Language API lets you extract information from text using Google machine learning and now also supports text moderation.

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Nov 20, 2025

🍌 Testing Gemini 3 Pro Image

Nano Banana Pro is the new state-of-the-art image generation/editing model

🍌 Testing Gemini 3 Pro Image

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Sep 6, 2025

Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 8: 🏁 Conclusion

Explore how to transcribe videos with detailed speaker identification in a single prompt

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Sep 5, 2025

Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 7: ⚖️ Analysis, Tips & Optimizations

Explore how to transcribe videos with detailed speaker identification in a single prompt

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Sep 5, 2025

Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 6: ✅ Challenge Complete

Explore how to transcribe videos with detailed speaker identification in a single prompt

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Sep 5, 2025

Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 5: 🚀 Finalization

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Unlocking Multimodal Video Transcription with Gemini — Part 5: 🚀 Finalization

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