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AI Engineering with the Google Gemini 2.5 Model Family - Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind
Takeaway
Gemini 2.5 Flash is free via AI Studio and integrates with MCP, Google Search grounding, and the new Google GenAI SDK out of the box.
Summary
- Hands-on workshop using Gemini 2.5 Pro and free-tier 2.5 Flash via Google AI Studio + Colab; both natively multimodal (text/image/audio/video/docs in, text out).
- Walks through Google GenAI SDK: client/models abstraction, generate_content / generate_stream, native tools (Google Search grounding), function calling, structured outputs.
- Demonstrates connecting MCP servers to Gemini as a tool-calling model, plus new TTS models from Google I/O that generate speech from text.
- Workshop notebooks cover four sections—text generation, multimodality (incl. image generation), function calling, and MCP integration—each ~30 min.
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Original description
Hands on Workshop on learning to use Gemini 2.5 Pro in combination with Agentic tooling and MCP Servers. About Philipp Schmid Philipp Schmid is a Senior AI Developer Relations Engineer at Google DeepMind working on Gemini, Gemma with the mission to help every developer and builder to create and benefit from AI in a responsible way. Recorded at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. Stay up to date on our upcoming events and content by joining our newsletter here: https://www.ai.engineer/newsletter