Google Retires the Imagen 4 Preview Endpoints on August 17, Routing Callers to Gemini Image
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Google is closing out the current Imagen generation's API endpoints today and pointing callers at the Gemini image model instead, following the February 2026 Imagen 4 preview snapshots. It is an API deprecation rather than a launch, but it consolidates Google's image generation under a single Gemini surface — which means anyone still pinned to Imagen endpoints has a migration on their hands. Confirmed via release-tracking aggregators rather than a standalone Google blog post, so treat the framing as secondary.