Welcome to the Gemini API Cookbook

# Welcome to the Gemini API Cookbook

This cookbook provides a structured learning path for using the Gemini API, focusing on hands-on tutorials and practical examples.

**For comprehensive API documentation, visit [ai.google.dev](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs).**

**For Gemma quickstarts and examples, check out the [Gemma cookbook](https://github.com/google-gemma/cookbook).**

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> **Gemini 3.6 Flash**: Stronger performance on complex agentic and multimodal tasks while reducing token usage. Get started with the [Get Started](./quickstarts/Get_started.ipynb) [![Colab](https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/colab_icon16.png)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/main/quickstarts/Get_started.ipynb#gemini3) and the [thinking](./quickstarts/Get_started_thinking.ipynb) [![Colab](https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/colab_icon16.png)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/main/quickstarts/Get_started_thinking.ipynb#gemini3) guides.
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> **Omni Flash**: The Nano Banana of video editing is here! Learn how to call the model using the interactions API, edit videos with natural language and more [here](./quickstarts/Get_started_Omni.ipynb) [![Colab](https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/colab_icon16.png)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/main/quickstarts/Get_started_Omni.ipynb)!
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> **🍌 Nano-Banana 2**: Go bananas with our latest image generation model: **Nano-Banana 2**. Get started [here](./quickstarts/Get_Started_Nano_Banana.ipynb) [![Colab](https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/colab_icon16.png)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/main/quickstarts/Get_Started_Nano_Banana.ipynb#nano-banana-pro) with 512px, thinking, search and image grounding, and a ton of examples!
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> **🎶 Lyria 3**: Channel your inner composer with **Lyria 3**. Get started [here](./quickstarts/Get_started_Lyria.ipynb) [![Colab](https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/colab_icon16.png)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/main/quickstarts/Get_started_Lyria.ipynb) with 30s clips and full song generation, image-to-music, and a ton of examples!
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> **Agents API**: Create and run your custom agents using the new [Antigravity agent](./quickstarts/Get_started_managed_agents.ipynb) [![Colab](https://storage.googleapis.com/generativeai-downloads/images/colab_icon16.png)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/cookbook/blob/main/quickstarts/Get_started_managed_agents.ipynb)!
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