2026-08-13 19:37 UTCOriginal source1 min readUpdated: 2026-08-14 02:44 UTC

llm-gemini 0.33

Release: <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.33">llm-gemini 0.33</a> It's been a while since the last <code>llm-gemini</code> release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/">Gemini 3.7 Flash</a> release, plus <code>gemini-3.6-flash</code>, <code>gemini-3.5-flash-lite</code> and two embedding models <code>gemini-embedding-2</code> and <code>gemini-embedding-001</code>. The plugin is also upgraded for compatibility with LLM 0.32, which means you can now see reasoning traces and you can also enable server-side tools using this pattern: <pre><code>llm -m gemini-3.7-flash -T CodeExecution \ 'use python to calculate (factorial of 13) * 3' </code></pre> I had Gemini 3.7 Flash <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer.html#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F6779a22d5e7bb6bdf29936f1600a5259">draw me some pelicans riding bicycles</a> at high, medium, and low thinking efforts (minimal, which was an option in 3.6 Flash, has been removed in 3.7.) Here's the high level one, which is pretty great: <img alt="This pelican has a very cool curved green bicycle, a fish in its basket, a lovely red and white spotted scarf and a captain's hat" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-3.7-flash-high-pelican.jpg" /> One catch though: the pelican I showed here was rendered with Safari. Both Firefox and Chrome render it differently, due to Safari being more tolerant of empty SVG <code><filter></code> elements than those other two browsers. They still display the bicycle, but the pelican is missing entirely! <img alt="The same image except the pelican is entirely missing - it's just the bicycle." src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/broken-pelican-safari.jpg" /> Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm">llm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gemini">gemini</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle">pelican-riding-a-bicycle</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-release">llm-release</a>

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Release: llm-gemini 0.33

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13th August 2026

Release

llm-gemini 0.33 — LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models

It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-001.

The plugin is also upgraded for compatibility with LLM 0.32, which means you can now see reasoning traces and you can also enable server-side tools using this pattern:

llm -m gemini-3.7-flash -T CodeExecution \ 'use python to calculate (factorial of 13) * 3'

I had Gemini 3.7 Flash draw me some pelicans riding bicycles at high, medium, and low thinking efforts (minimal, which was an option in 3.6 Flash, has been removed in 3.7.) Here's the high level one, which is pretty great:

One catch though: the pelican I showed here was rendered with Safari. Both Firefox and Chrome render it differently, due to Safari being more tolerant of empty SVG elements than those other two browsers.

They still display the bicycle, but the pelican is missing entirely!