Google is rolling out Gemini to developers, enticing them with tools including AI Studio, an easy-to-navigate Web-based platform that will serve as a portal to the multi-tiered Gemini ecosystem, beginning with Gemini Pro, with Gemini Ultra to come next year. The service aims to allow developers to quickly create prompts and Gemini-powered chatbots, providing access to API keys to integrate them into apps. They’ll also be able to access code, should projects require a full featured IDE. The site is essentially a revamped version of what was formerly Google’s MakerSuite.

TechCrunch says the new iteration “feels quite a bit more substantial,” and also offers “a relatively generous free quota, with up to 60 requests per second,” enough to power iteration “without facing onerous restrictions,” and possibly even enough to power some lesser-used production apps.

That enthusiasm comes with a caveat, however. “For developers using the free tier (and that’s pretty much everyone for now, as Google only plans to launch a paid version early next year) … Google’s reviewers can see the input and output of the API and web app to ‘improve product quality,’” writes TechCrunch.

Google says in a blog post that the data is “de-identified from your Google account and API key.”

In addition to the AI Studio and Gemini API, Google is introducing a range of generative AI tools and platforms for developers and Google Cloud customers (detailed here.)

AI Studio “will offer support for both Gemini Pro and the Gemini Pro Vision model, allowing developers to work with both text and imagery (though not for creating images),” according to TechCrunch.

Bloomberg says “Google is also releasing a dedicated Gemini Pro Vision platform,” but since Gemini is natively multimodal, and its derivatives presnted that way, too, it’s unclear how Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision will differ.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian writes that Gemini allows developers to work with text, images, audio and code, “in the same way that humans see, hear, read, listen and talk about different types of information simultaneously.”

“We’ve designed [AI Studio] to be the fastest way to build with Gemini,” Google Labs VP Josh Woodward told Bloomberg, explaining that while the company is already planning upgrades, “people can just get in and really start building with it.”

Gemini is also coming to the enterprise-driven Vertex AI, which provides more customization, including with businesses’ own data.