Google Announces Vertex AI Generative AI Updates: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite & Deprecations
Action Required
Users must migrate from deprecated Imagen and Veo generation endpoints to supported models before June 30, 2026, to avoid service disruption and ensure continued access to Vertex AI's generative AI capabilities.
AI Impact Summary
Google is announcing updates and new features for Vertex AI's Generative AI capabilities. This includes the availability of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model in public preview, along with updates to RAG Cross Corpus Retrieval, visualization cells, SQL cells, metadata search, and the Lyria 3 model. Furthermore, there are deprecation announcements for older Imagen and Veo generation endpoints, requiring migration by June 30, 2026. This signals ongoing investment and expansion of Vertex AI's generative AI offerings, presenting opportunities for users to leverage these advancements.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- high