AI Studio
Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com) is the web playground for the Gemini API — type a prompt, swap models, tune temperature, paste images / PDFs / video, get a response. It's also where you generate the API keys that the SDKs use. Beyond the playground, AI Studio now hosts a "Build" surface for prototyping small Gemini-powered apps (with code export to Python or Node) and a "Stream Realtime" tab for the Live API (voice + video conversation with Gemini). Free tier with rate limits. Different from Vertex AI Studio (which is the Google Cloud equivalent inside the Cloud Console). Sourced from aistudio.google.com and ai.google.dev/aistudio.
- STUD.1 Google AI Studio, plainly sourced
Google AI Studio (aistudio.google.com) — the web playground for the Gemini API. Where you generate API keys, test prompts across mixed inputs (text, image, PDF, audio, video), prototype Live API voice/video, export code in five languages, and save prompts to your Drive. What it is, what it isn't, and the deprecated fine-tuning gap.
- STUD.2 AI Studio vs the Gemini API sourced
Three things people often confuse — Google AI Studio (the playground UI), the Gemini API (what AI Studio talks to), and Vertex AI Studio (a different product entirely, inside the Cloud Console). When to use which, and how they relate.